PercentageVolume

Incremental, causal technical analysis documentation

Summary

PercentageVolume is RTTA's streaming implementation of: Percentage Volume Oscillator.

Update API

result = rtta.PercentageVolume().update(volume)

The update(...) call consumes one observation using volume. advance(...) uses the same inputs when the caller wants to update state without materializing a Python return value.

Theory Of Operation

PercentageVolume normalizes recent directional movement into an oscillator. The implementation keeps only causal rolling or smoothed state and maps that state into the current oscillator value.

Recurrence

Let \(z_t = volume_t\) denote the observation consumed by one update(...) call and let \(\theta\) denote constructor parameters such as window lengths, thresholds, and smoothing constants.

\[PV_t = PV_{t-1}+price_t\,volume_t\]
\[V_t = V_{t-1}+volume_t, \qquad y_t = G(PV_t,V_t,z_t)\]

update(...) returns a result struct with fields pvo, signal, histogram.

Implementation Notes

The recurrence is implemented in src/rtta/indicator.cpp in class PercentageVolume.

Reference