Abbreviation: Advance-Decline Spread: VolWgtAvg
Category: Market Advance / Decline
Input Parameters:
| Name | Range | Default |
| Advancing Issues | ||
| Declining Issues | ||
| Total Volume | ||
| VolWgtAvg Periods | Int >= 1 | 5 |
Calculation:
VolWgtAvg(X, Total Volume, VolWgtAvg Periods)
where
X = Advance-Decline Spread(Advancing Issues, Declining Issues)
Advance-Decline Spread represents Advance-Decline Spread
VolWgtAvg represents Volume Weighted Moving Average
Discussion:
This indicator attempts to smooth the Advance-Decline Spread indicator by calculating its moving average. Since it uses a volume weighted moving average (which gives more importance to those periods with higher volume relative to the other periods in the moving average’s time frame), the smoothing is influenced more by periods of relatively higher volume than by periods of relatively lower volume.