Keltner channel

Keltner channel

Keltner channel is a technical analysis indicator showing a central moving average line plus channel lines at a distance above and below. The indicator is named after Chester W. Keltner (1909-1998) who described it in his 1960 book "How To Make Money in Commodities". But this name was applied only by those who heard about it from him, Keltner called it the Ten-Day Moving Average Trading Rule and indeed made no claim to any originality for the idea.

In Keltner's description the centre line is an 10-day simple moving average of "typical price", where typical price each day is the average of high, low and close,

: typical price = {high + low + close over 3}

The lines above and below are drawn a distance from that centre line, a distance which is the simple moving average of the past 10 days' trading ranges (ie. range high to low on each day).

The trading strategy is to regard a close above the upper line as a strong bullish signal, or a close below the lower line as strong bearish sentiment, and buy or sell with the trend accordingly, but perhaps with other indicators to confirm.

The origin of this idea is uncertain. Keltner was a Chicago grain trader and perhaps it was common knowledge among traders of the day. Or in the 1930s as a young man Keltner worked for Ralph Ainsworth (1884-1965) back-testing trading systems submitted when Ainsworth offered a substantial prize for a winning strategy, so it could have been among those. But ideas of channels with fixed-widths go back to the earliest days of charting, so perhaps applying some averaging is not an enormous leap in any case.

Later authors, such as Linda Bradford Raschke, have published modifications for the Keltner channel, such as different averaging periods; or an exponential moving average; or using a multiple of Wilder's average true range (ATR) for the bands. These variations have merit, but are often still just called Keltner channel, creating some confusion as to what exactly one gets from an indicator called that.

ee also

* Bollinger bands

References

* [http://www.traders.com/Documentation/FEEDbk_docs/Archive/022003/Letters/Letters.html Titans Of Technical Analysis] , letter by Don Jones to Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities magazine, February 2003
* [http://trader.online.pl/MSZ/e-w-Keltner_Channels.html Trader.Online.pl - MetaStock Zone - Keltner Channels] , describing 10-day SMA
* [http://www.metastocktools.com/MetaStock/Keltner.txt Keltner Channels] , Keltner & Bollinger Bands for MetaStock, fully adjustable with multiple output choice


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