[blackcat] L2 Ehlers Voss Filter Strategy

Level: 2

Background

John F. Ehlers introuced Voss Filter Strategy in Aug, 2019.

Function

John Ehlers’ mining of the digital signal processing literature space in his article in this issue, “A Peek Into The Future,” brings us another interesting tool for seeing a bit below the noise surrounding price series to better locate turning points. In “A Peek Into The Future” in Aug, 2019, John Ehlers describes the calculation of a new filter that could help signal cyclical turning points in markets. As described by Dr. Ehlers, the filter has a negative group delay and while an indicator based on it cannot actually see into the future, it may provide the trader with signals in advance of other indicators. Noticing that the indicator accurately tracks the market’s peaks and valleys, Ehlers suggests that simple crossovers of the forward-looking Voss predictor with the two-pole band-pass filter may become the basis of a trading system. Having looked at the paper by Henning Voss, I personally appreciate Ehlers’ ability to reduce the calculus of the Voss presentation to six simple lines of code. I thought that the predictive nature of the VossPredictor would be a good candidate to use for one of the current favorite areas of exploration, self-tuning indicators.


Key Signal

Voss --> Ehlers Voss Filter fast line
Trigger --> Ehlers Voss Filter slow line


Pros and Cons

100% John F. Ehlers definition translation, even variable names are the same. This help readers who would like to use pine to read his book.


Remarks

The 93th script for Blackcat1402 John F. Ehlers Week publication.


Readme

In real life, I am a prolific inventor. I have successfully applied for more than 60 international and regional patents in the past 12 years. But in the past two years or so, I have tried to transfer my creativity to the development of trading strategies. Tradingview is the ideal platform for me. I am selecting and contributing some of the hundreds of scripts to publish in Tradingview community. Welcome everyone to interact with me to discuss these interesting pine scripts.

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