Anchored Powered KAMA
By LuxAlgoFeb 26, 2025
Anchored Powered KAMA is an indicator on Vela, our next-generation charting platform, written in Pine Script®.
Anchored Powered KAMA rebuilds KAMA around calendar anchors: the adaptive average restarts each Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly period, a power exponent deepens its flattening in sideways tape, and standard-deviation bands computed from the KAMA itself mark the period's extremes. One glance separates trending conditions from ranging ones.
How to Trade the Anchored Powered KAMA?
- Flat KAMA: a horizontal average signals a ranging market. Anticipate reversals at the outer bands rather than chasing moves.
- Sloped KAMA: a rising or falling average marks trend; wait for pullbacks toward the KAMA and trade in the direction of its slope.
- Band structure: defaults plot solid bands at 2x deviations and dashed at 1x, grading how stretched price is within the current anchor period.
Anchoring is what makes it multi-timeframe: Hourly suits charts up to 2 minutes, Daily up to 15 minutes, Weekly up to 1 hour, Monthly up to 4 hours, and Yearly beyond that, with an automated option that picks the optimal period for your chart. It follows the anchored moving average principle, so every period gets its own clean read, and deviations are computed with Welford's algorithm. If auto-selection is disabled, keep the anchor aligned with the chart timeframe to avoid display errors.
Anchored Powered KAMA Settings
- Anchor Period: Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, or Yearly.
- Source: the data series feeding the calculation.
- Power Exponent (default 2): the efficiency ratio is raised to this power to set the smoothing; higher values flatten the average more in sideways markets.
- Bands Multiplier: standard-deviation multiplier for the outer bands, with inner bands drawn at one less.
Frequently Asked Questions
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- Up to 500 Custom Alerts, with webhook automation
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- Orderflow lookback up to full history
- More Quant usage to customize it, plus extra usage when you need it
- Futures data alongside crypto, stocks, forex and commodities
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