Oscillator Indicators

• Jul 14, 2021
• 2 minutes to read

Any financial series within the Chart Control can be accompanied with an unlimited number of different Oscillators. An oscillator is a trend indicator banded between two extreme values used to discover short-term overbought or oversold conditions.

This document consists of the following sections:

• Available Oscillator Indicators
• How to Add an Oscillator Indicator to a Chart

Available Oscillator Indicators

The following table lists all the Oscillator indicators supported by the Chart Control:

Oscilllator indicator	Class	Specific Parameters
Average True Range, ATR	AverageTrueRange	AverageTrueRange.PointsCount
Commodity Channel Index, CCI	CommodityChannelIndex	CommodityChannelIndex.PointsCount
Detrended Price Oscillator, DPO	DetrendedPriceOscillator	DetrendedPriceOscillator.PointsCount DetrendedPriceOscillator.ValueLevel
Moving Average Convergence/Divergence, MACD	MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence	MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence.ValueLevel MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence.SignalSmoothingPeriod MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence.LongPeriod MovingAverageConvergenceDivergence.ShortPeriod
Rate of Change, RoC	RateOfChange	RateOfChange.PointsCount RateOfChange.ValueLevel
Relative Strength Index, RSI	RelativeStrengthIndex	RelativeStrengthIndex.PointsCount RelativeStrengthIndex.ValueLevel
Triple Exponential Moving Average, TriX	TripleExponentialMovingAverageTrix	TripleExponentialMovingAverageTrix.PointsCount TripleExponentialMovingAverageTrix.ValueLevel
Chaikin’s Volatility, CHV	ChaikinsVolatility	ChaikinsVolatility.PointsCount
Williams %R	WilliamsR	WilliamsR.PointsCount

How to Add an Oscillator Indicator to a Chart

The following XAML shows how to add the Williams %R indicator to a separate pane with a secondary Y-axis:

XAML

<dxc:StockSeries2D DisplayName="Series">
    <dxc:StockSeries2D.Indicators>
        <dxc:WilliamsR PointsCount="15"
                       dxc:XYDiagram2D.IndicatorPane="{Binding ElementName=indicatorPane}" 
                       dxc:XYDiagram2D.IndicatorAxisY="{Binding ElementName=indicatorAxis}"
                       LegendText="Williams %R" 
                       ShowInLegend="True"/>
    </dxc:StockSeries2D.Indicators>
    <!--...-->
</dxc:StockSeries2D>
<dxc:XYDiagram2D.Panes>
    <dxc:Pane x:Name="indicatorPane"/>
</dxc:XYDiagram2D.Panes>
<dxc:XYDiagram2D.SecondaryAxesY>
    <dxc:SecondaryAxisY2D x:Name="indicatorAxis" 
                          Alignment="Far"/>
</dxc:XYDiagram2D.SecondaryAxesY>

The markup above uses the following classes and properties:

Class or Property	Description
XYSeries2D.Indicators	The series collection of indicators.
WilliamsR	The Williams %R indicator.
WilliamsR.PointsCount	The number of series points that are used to build the indicator.
XYDiagram2D.IndicatorPane	The indicator pane.
XYDiagram2D.IndicatorAxisY	The y-axis for the indicator.
Indicator.LegendText	The text that identifies the indicator within the legend of the Chart Control.
Indicator.ShowInLegend	Specifies whether to show the indicator in the legend.