VolumeWeightedAveragePrice

Incremental, causal technical analysis documentation

Summary

VolumeWeightedAveragePrice is RTTA's streaming implementation of: VWAP price weighted by traded volume.

Update API

result = rtta.VolumeWeightedAveragePrice().update(close, high, low, volume)

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

Theory Of Operation

VolumeWeightedAveragePrice is a causal smoother or average. It updates compact rolling or exponential state with the newest observation and returns the current smoothed estimate.

Recurrence

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

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

The return value is the current scalar indicator value.

Implementation Notes

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

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