Indicators: Commodity Channel Index (CCI)

[Automated-Trading]

Commodity Channel Index (CCI):

Commodity Channel Index technical indicator (CCI) measures the deviation of the commodity price from its average statistical price.

High values of the index point out that the price is unusually high being compared with the average one, and low values show that the price is too low. In spite of its name, the Commodity Channel Index can be applied for any financial instrument, and not only for the commodities.

There are two basic techniques of using Commodity Channel Index:

1. Finding the divergences. The divergence appears when the price reaches a new maximum, and Commodity Channel Index can not grow above the previous maximums. This classical divergence is normally followed by the price correction.
   
2. As an indicator of overbought/oversold states of the market. Commodity Channel Index usually varies in the range of ±100. Values above +100 inform about overbought state (and about a probability of correction), and the values below 100 indicates the oversold state (and about a probability of price increase).

Author: MetaQuotes Software Corp.

[Sergey Golubev]

Commodity Channel Index (CCI) Indicator

[Kang Feng]

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