FTB-C000429 / Formula component

Typical Price

Typical Price is the arithmetic average of a bar's high, low, and close prices.

Also known asTP

Definitions

In plain terms

It creates one representative price input per finalized bar for CCI and other indicators.

Technical

The three fields must share instrument, timestamp, adjustment basis, currency, finalization, and validated OHLC consistency.

Scope

It is a convention and is not the volume-weighted average price or actual executed average.

Formula

Typical Price = (H + L + C) / 3
LaTeX: TP_t=\frac{H_t+L_t+C_t}{3}
SymbolMeaningUnit
H_tbar highprice
L_tbar lowprice
C_tbar closeprice

Output unit: price

Examples

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

Common misconceptions

  • It is a convention and is not the volume-weighted average price or actual executed average.

Concept relationships

Where this concept is used

Evidence and governance

  1. Commodity Channel Index TA-Lib · first party technical publication

    Supports: preferred label, short definition, technical definition, formula

    Limits: The common 0.015 constant is a convention, and zero-deviation or mixed-adjustment inputs require explicit handling.

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fintech-builder-batch-008
Last reviewed
2026-07-29
Next review
2027-07-29
Record status
published