Yep, that's what I am doing, optimizing the period.

On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Martin Koistinen <[email protected]>wrote:

> Sure thing.  What period are you using for the weighted version?  That
> looks a pretty large number.  I think you're going to want to bring it down
> sufficiently such that the first couple of hours of both charts look
> similar.  Better yet, optimize the period :)
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Eugene Kononov 
> <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> Hmm, it does seem to do what I wanted. Thanks, Martin, much appreciated. I
>> attached the chart that shows the effect. DepthCorrelation is the original
>> indicated, and DepthCorrelation2 is the weighted version.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 12:10 PM, MKoistinen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Or more completely:
>>> period is an input
>>> double alpha = 2 / (period + 1);
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>>            n++;
>>>            sumX  += alpha * (balance - sumX);
>>>            sumXX += alpha * (balance * balance - sumXX);
>>>            sumY  += alpha * (price - sumY);
>>>            sumYY += alpha * (price * price - sumYY);
>>>            sumXY += alpha * (price * balance - sumXY);
>>>
>>>             if (n > period) { // wait for period minutes of data
>>> before calculating
>>>
>>>                double numerator = period * sumXY - sumX * sumY;
>>>                double denominator = Math.sqrt(period * sumXX - sumX *
>>> sumX) * Math.sqrt(period * sumYY - sumY * sumY);
>>>
>>>                if (denominator != 0) {
>>>                    value = 100 * (numerator / denominator);
>>>                 }
>>>            }
>>>
>>> On Aug 4, 5:05 pm, MKoistinen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> > Have you tried using EMA-like processing to weight the most recent
>>> > events higher?
>>> >
>>> > so
>>> >             n++;
>>> >             sumX += balance;
>>> >             sumXX += (balance * balance);
>>> >             sumY += price;
>>> >             sumYY += (price * price);
>>> >             sumXY += (price * balance);
>>> >
>>> > becomes:
>>> >             n++;
>>> >             sumX += alpha * (balance - sumX);
>>> >             sumXX += alpha * (balance * balance - sumXX);
>>> >             sumY += alpha * (price - sumY);
>>> >             sumYY += alpha * (price * price - sumYY);
>>> >             sumXY += alpha * (price * balance - sumXY);
>>> >
>>> > It seems like this should do the trick...
>>> >
>>> > On Aug 4, 4:22 pm, nonlinear5 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > I have a new indicator, called DepthPriceCorrelation. It's not in the
>>> > > release yet, but it's in SVNhttp://
>>> code.google.com/p/jbooktrader/source/browse/trunk/source/com/j...
>>> >
>>> > > The indicator is based on the idea that current price can be
>>> > > considered "fair" when the correlation between market depth balances
>>> > > and market prices is positive. This positive correlation occurs when:
>>> >
>>> > > -- high depth balances are accompanied by higher prices
>>> > > or
>>> > > -- low depth balances are accompanied by lower prices
>>> >
>>> > > When the correlation is negative, the prices are moving in the
>>> > > direction opposite from the direction of depth balances, and I call
>>> it
>>> > > a "high tension" condition. This is when my strategy gets into a
>>> > > position on the bet that the tension will ease and the correlation
>>> > > will return to its "normal" positive value. Here is an example of
>>> such
>>> > > a strategy:
>>> http://code.google.com/p/jbooktrader/source/browse/trunk/source/com/j...
>>> >
>>> > > Now, to calculate the correlation, the indicator simply updates the
>>> > > running sums for prices and balances, and then uses a standard
>>> > > correlation coefficient formula to come up with the result. This is
>>> > > very efficient, and it works well. The problem is, sometime in the
>>> > > second half of the trading session, the indicator becomes too
>>> "stale",
>>> > > because it uses all the data accumulated so far during the trading
>>> > > session. So, at say, 2pm, the indicator would represent the
>>> > > correlation between balances and prices based on all the data from
>>> > > 9:30am to 2pm, while my strategy is looking for a shorter term
>>> > > correlation, such as the last 2 hours. It's certainly possible to
>>> > > recalculate the indicator based on this 2-hour moving window, but it
>>> > > would be very computationally expensive, since every time, I would
>>> > > need to loop through the last two hours of values, instead of simply
>>> > > updating the running sums.
>>> >
>>> > > So, here is the question for the algorithmically inclined. How do I
>>> > > *efficiently* calculate the correlation between X and Y in a moving
>>> > > time window?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> >
>

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