Oscillator Indicators

Jul 14, 2021
2 minutes to read

Any financial series within the Chart Control can be accompanied with an unlimited number of different Oscillators. An oscillator is a trend indicator banded between two extreme values used to discover short-term overbought or oversold conditions.

This document consists of the following sections:

Available Oscillator Indicators
How to Add an Oscillator Indicator to a Chart

Available Oscillator Indicators

The following table lists all the Oscillator indicators supported by the Chart Control:

Oscilllator indicator

Class

Specific Parameters

| | --- | --- | --- | |

Average True Range, ATR

AverageTrueRange

AverageTrueRange.PointsCount

| |

Commodity Channel Index, CCI

CommodityChannelIndex

CommodityChannelIndex.PointsCount

| |

Detrended Price Oscillator, DPO

DetrendedPriceOscillator

DetrendedPriceOscillator.PointsCount

DetrendedPriceOscillator.ValueLevel

| |

Moving Average Convergence/Divergence, MACD

MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence

MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence.ValueLevel

MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence.SignalSmoothingPeriod

MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence.LongPeriod

MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence.ShortPeriod

| |

Rate of Change, RoC

RateOfChange

RateOfChange.PointsCount

RateOfChange.ValueLevel

| |

Relative Strength Index, RSI

RelativeStrengthIndex

RelativeStrengthIndex.PointsCount

RelativeStrengthIndex.ValueLevel

| |

Triple Exponential Moving Average, TriX

TripleExponentialMovingAverageTrix

TripleExponentialMovingAverageTrix.PointsCount

TripleExponentialMovingAverageTrix.ValueLevel

| |

Chaikin’s Volatility, CHV

ChaikinsVolatility

ChaikinsVolatility.PointsCount

| |

Williams %R

WilliamsR

WilliamsR.PointsCount

How to Add an Oscillator Indicator to a Chart

The following XAML shows how to add the Williams %R indicator to a separate pane with a secondary Y-axis:

XAML

xaml

<dxc:StockSeries2D DisplayName="Series">
    <dxc:StockSeries2D.Indicators>
        <dxc:WilliamsR PointsCount="15"
                       dxc:XYDiagram2D.IndicatorPane="{Binding ElementName=indicatorPane}" 
                       dxc:XYDiagram2D.IndicatorAxisY="{Binding ElementName=indicatorAxis}"
                       LegendText="Williams %R" 
                       ShowInLegend="True"/>
    </dxc:StockSeries2D.Indicators>
    <!--...-->
</dxc:StockSeries2D>
<dxc:XYDiagram2D.Panes>
    <dxc:Pane x:Name="indicatorPane"/>
</dxc:XYDiagram2D.Panes>
<dxc:XYDiagram2D.SecondaryAxesY>
    <dxc:SecondaryAxisY2D x:Name="indicatorAxis" 
                          Alignment="Far"/>
</dxc:XYDiagram2D.SecondaryAxesY>

The markup above uses the following classes and properties:

Class or Property	Description
XYSeries2D.Indicators	The series collection of indicators.
WilliamsR	The Williams %R indicator.
WilliamsR.PointsCount	The number of series points that are used to build the indicator.
XYDiagram2D.IndicatorPane	The indicator pane.
XYDiagram2D.IndicatorAxisY	The y-axis for the indicator.
Indicator.LegendText	The text that identifies the indicator within the legend of the Chart Control.
Indicator.ShowInLegend	Specifies whether to show the indicator in the legend.