FTB-C000410 / Indicator

Stochastic Oscillator

Stochastic Oscillator is an oscillator family that expresses close location within a rolling high-low range and may apply one or two smoothing stages.

Also known asStochastic

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Definitions

In plain terms

The canonical slow form contains fast percent K, slow percent K, and slow percent D.

Technical

The contract freezes price fields, lookback, current-bar inclusion, zero range, smoothing lengths and types, readiness, and finalized bars.

Scope

High values describe range location and do not guarantee an overbought reversal.

Examples

  • A governed lesson calculates or identifies Stochastic Oscillator only after its inputs, window, state, scale, and edge cases are declared.

Common misconceptions

  • High values describe range location and do not guarantee an overbought reversal.

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-F03-A02 Primary
  • D07-F03-A03 Important

Evidence and governance

  1. Stochastic Oscillator Slow TA-Lib · first party technical publication

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition

    Limits: Moving-average types, zero-range policy, and first-ready indexes can differ across implementations.

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