/* * QUANTCONNECT.COM - Democratizing Finance, Empowering Individuals. * Lean Algorithmic Trading Engine v2.0. Copyright 2014 QuantConnect Corporation. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ using System; using System.Linq; namespace QuantConnect.Indicators { /// /// Represents the traditional Weighted Moving Average indicator. The weight are linearly /// distributed according to the number of periods in the indicator. /// /// For example, a 4 period indicator will have a numerator of (4 * window[0]) + (3 * window[1]) + (2 * window[2]) + window[3] /// and a denominator of 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 10 /// /// During the warm up period, IsReady will return false, but the LWMA will still be computed correctly because /// the denominator will be the minimum of Samples factorial or Size factorial and /// the computation iterates over that minimum value. /// /// The RollingWindow of inputs is created when the indicator is created. /// A RollingWindow of LWMAs is not saved. That is up to the caller. /// public class LinearWeightedMovingAverage : WindowIndicator, IIndicatorWarmUpPeriodProvider { private readonly int _denominator; /// /// Required period, in data points, for the indicator to be ready and fully initialized. /// public int WarmUpPeriod => Period; /// /// Initializes a new instance of the LinearWeightedMovingAverage class with the specified name and period /// /// The name of this indicator /// The period of the LWMA public LinearWeightedMovingAverage(string name, int period) : base(name, period) { _denominator = (period * (period + 1)) / 2; } /// /// Initializes a new instance of the LinearWeightedMovingAverage class with the default name and period /// /// The period of the LWMA public LinearWeightedMovingAverage(int period) : this($"LWMA({period})", period) { } /// /// Computes the next value for this indicator from the given state. /// /// The window of data held in this indicator /// The input value to this indicator on this time step /// A new value for this indicator protected override decimal ComputeNextValue(IReadOnlyWindow window, IndicatorDataPoint input) { // our first data point just return identity if (!IsReady) { return 0; } var numerator = 0m; var index = window.Size; // If the indicator is not ready, the LWMA will still be correct // because the numerator has the minimum of the Size (number of // entries or the Samples (the allocated space) var minSizeSamples = (int)Math.Min(index, window.Samples); for (var i = 0; i < minSizeSamples; i++) { numerator += (index-- * window[i].Value); } return numerator / _denominator; } } }