Dickson Moving Average

The reddit post from below names this average the Dickson Moving Average after its own author Nathan Dickson (reddit handle)

In one of the regular visits to reddit Algotrading I found a post about a moving average which tries to mimic the Jurik Moving Average (aka JMA)

Described as an algorithm in EasyLanguage I had to ask about the seed values and the nature of ec and this finally led to Ehlers and the Zero Lag Indicator

In order to implement the Dickson Moving Average into backtrader and given the dependencies on Ehlers and also on the Hull Moving Average, those two were also added to the arsenal of moving averages.

In summary the following has been added with Release 1.8.7.96 :

Hull Moving Average

Zero Lag Indicator

Dickson Moving Average

And the results can be seen with a plot using one of the sample datas and btrun :

$ btrun --nostdstats \ --format btcsv \ --data ../../../backtrader/datas/2006-day-001.txt \ --indicator :SMA \ --indicator :EMA \ --indicator :HMA \ --indicator :ZeroLagIndicator \ --indicator :DMA \ --plot style=\'line\'

Now it’s about getting the Dickson Moving Average to produce profit … like with any other indicator.

Note Notice how the Hull Moving Average (aka HMA) starts producing values a couple of values later than the rest. This is due to the fact that is uses a moving average on moving average which delays the initial production.

And a comparison showing how the DMA sits in between the middle of a ZeroLagIndicator and a HullMovingAverage. The latter with a period=7 to match the default value inside the Dickson Moving Average: