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Percentage Price Oscillator

Percentage Price Oscillator is a fast-minus-slow moving-average spread expressed as a percentage of the slow average.

Also known asPPO

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Definitions

In plain terms

It makes the spread more comparable across instruments or price levels than an absolute-unit MACD line.

Technical

The method freezes moving-average type, fast and slow periods, denominator, scale factor, zero-denominator policy, seeds, and readiness.

Scope

PPO normalization improves scale comparability but does not make instruments economically comparable in every respect.

Examples

  • A governed lesson calculates or identifies Percentage Price Oscillator only after its parameters, state, timing, and edge cases are declared.

Common misconceptions

  • PPO normalization improves scale comparability but does not make instruments economically comparable in every respect.

Concept relationships

Prerequisites

Related

Where this concept is used

Tutorials planned

These catalogued topics use this concept, but their complete build has not shipped yet.

  • D07-F02-A02 Primary

Evidence and governance

  1. Percentage Price Oscillator TA-Lib · first party technical publication

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition

    Limits: Moving-average type, denominator-zero handling, signal line, and histogram must be frozen by the consuming methodology.

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