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Pretty Good Oscillator

The Pretty Good Oscillator indicator by Mark Johnson measures the distance of the current close from its N-day simple moving average, expressed in terms of an average true range over a similar period.

Configuration Options

  • Period: Number of bars to use in the calculations.
  • Color Selectors: Colors to use for graph elements.
  • Display Axis Label: Whether to display the most recent value on the Y axis.

Formula

\[PGO = \frac{close - SMA[N]\ of\ closes}{EMA[N]\ of\ true\ range} \]