Momentum Indicators

Ichimoku Cloud indicator

Five-line trend system: Tenkan and Kijun midpoints, Senkou A/B cloud bands, and the Chikou lagging line. Lines are evaluated unshifted. Price above the cloud with Tenkan above Kijun is the full bullis

Definition

Five-line trend system: Tenkan and Kijun midpoints, Senkou A/B cloud bands, and the Chikou lagging line. Lines are evaluated unshifted. Price above the cloud with Tenkan above Kijun is the full bullish alignment.

Parameters

Asset, Conversion window (9), Span length (52), Line (tenkan | kijun | senkouA | senkouB | chikou)

Output range: Price scale

Example condition

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`Ichimoku(AAPL, 9, 52, tenkan) > Ichimoku(AAPL, 9, 52, kijun)` (Bullish Tenkan/Kijun cross)

Usage notes

The strongest signal is price breaking the cloud after a flat Senkou B — flat cloud edges are support/resistance.

Use in a strategy

Add this indicator to a strategy condition, choose its supported parameters and compare the output with the threshold required by your rule. Preserve the same interval and lookback when comparing backtests.

After saving the condition, inspect its asset, interval, lookback and comparison operator against the parameters above. If no trades occur, check whether the condition ever became true and whether the requested input data exists for that period. A missing input is not a zero-valued signal. An indicator produces an input to a rule. It does not establish future returns, and data availability can differ across assets and periods.