If you're talking about the zero-lag ema article with Ric Way, the online excerpt is typically devoid of details so maybe you can share the details with us so we can evaluate what the pros and cons of Ehlers' and Way's approach is.Quote from psytrade:
John Ehler has an article in this months stocks amd commodities magazine.
But really, I fail to see what mirroring the Markets moves using an SMA can generate in terms of profitable trades... most of these guys articles conveniently gloss over this issue.
Quote from psytrade:
But really, I fail to see what mirroring the Markets moves using an SMA can generate in terms of profitable trades... most of these guys articles conveniently gloss over this issue.
Does or does not the HMA overshoot? If the answer is yes (and there's no reason to believe otherwise), that alone makes it an inferior smoother, regardless of the specific input pattern that is being smoothed. The JMA only overshoots when you fiddle around with the PHASE parameter, which is something I would never do. In my own ama, there is no PHASE parameter and there is no overshoot, ever.
"There is a class ..." A specific example would be more convincing.Quote from Random.Capital:
Anything involving an average has, by definition, lag. You cannot compensate for lag unless you know what is coming. If you know what is coming, you have no need to screw around with any MAs.
If you don't know what is coming, all you are doing is guessing, and will constantly be creating bad signals. As an example of this, there is a class of input signals for which the JMA can be made to oscillate completely out of phase.