Linear Regression Analysis & Linear Regression Signals
Another name for a regression line is a line of the best fit/best fit line. This indicator plots the market trend of the currency price over a specified duration of time. The market trend is determined by calculating a Linear Regression Trend-Line using the "least squares fit" method. This method helps to minimize the distance between the price data points and the line of best fit.
Unlike the straight Regression Trend-Line indicator, the technical indicator draws the end values of multiple Linear Regression trend lines. Any single point along the Linear Regression will be equivalent to the end value of a Regression Trendline, but the resulting trend line looks like the MA.
But unlike the Moving Average, this trading indicator doesn't show as much delay since it is fitting a line onto data points rather than averaging them.
The Linear Regression is a prediction of the tomorrow's price plotted today, one day before. When the prices are steadily higher or lower than the forecast price, then a trader can expect them to quickly return to more realistic fore-casted levels.
In other terms, this technical indicator shows where the chart prices "should" be trading based on a statistical basis & any disproportionate deviation from the regression line is likely to be short-lived.
FX Analysis & Generating Signals
This indicator allows for price choice, adjusting number of periods & smoothing of price data before applying the calculation and the choice of smoothing type.
This indicator looks like a MA but it has a bi-color representation.
- Bullish Signal (Blue color) - A rising line (greater than its previous value 1 previous bar before) is displayed in the up trend blue color, while
- Bearish Signal (Red color) - a declining line (lower than its previous value 1 previous bar before) is displayed in the down trend red color.
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