Indicator Types

Types of Technical Indicators

There are two ways to create an indicator handle for further accessing to its values. The first way is to directly specify a function name from the list of technical indicators. The second method using the IndicatorCreate() is to uniformly create a handle of any indicator by assigning an identifier from the ENUM_INDICATOR enumeration. Both ways of handle creation are equal, you can use the one that is most convenient in a particular case when writing a program in MQL5.

When creating an indicator of type IND_CUSTOM, the type field of the first element of an array of input parameters MqlParam must have the TYPE_STRING value of the enumeration ENUM_DATATYPE, while the field string_value of the first element must contain the name of the custom indicator.

ENUM_INDICATOR

Identifier	Indicator
IND_AC	Accelerator Oscillator
IND_AD	Accumulation/Distribution
IND_ADX	Average Directional Index
IND_ADXW	ADX by Welles Wilder
IND_ALLIGATOR	Alligator
IND_AMA	Adaptive Moving Average
IND_AO	Awesome Oscillator
IND_ATR	Average True Range
IND_BANDS	Bollinger Bands®
IND_BEARS	Bears Power
IND_BULLS	Bulls Power
IND_BWMFI	Market Facilitation Index
IND_CCI	Commodity Channel Index
IND_CHAIKIN	Chaikin Oscillator
IND_CUSTOM	Custom indicator
IND_DEMA	Double Exponential Moving Average
IND_DEMARKER	DeMarker
IND_ENVELOPES	Envelopes
IND_FORCE	Force Index
IND_FRACTALS	Fractals
IND_FRAMA	Fractal Adaptive Moving Average
IND_GATOR	Gator Oscillator
IND_ICHIMOKU	Ichimoku Kinko Hyo
IND_MA	Moving Average
IND_MACD	MACD
IND_MFI	Money Flow Index
IND_MOMENTUM	Momentum
IND_OBV	On Balance Volume
IND_OSMA	OsMA
IND_RSI	Relative Strength Index
IND_RVI	Relative Vigor Index
IND_SAR	Parabolic SAR
IND_STDDEV	Standard Deviation
IND_STOCHASTIC	Stochastic Oscillator
IND_TEMA	Triple Exponential Moving Average
IND_TRIX	Triple Exponential Moving Averages Oscillator
IND_VIDYA	Variable Index Dynamic Average
IND_VOLUMES	Volumes
IND_WPR	Williams' Percent Range