Zero Point Force: A Volume-Weighted Moving Average Climate Indicator

Summary

Zero Point Force (ZPF) is a market-climate indicator that multiplies smoothed volume by the difference between fast and slow moving averages of closing price, scaled by one half. Users can configure the periods and calculation methods for both price averages and for volume smoothing. The document explains the calculation conceptually and describes how to read its two plotted lines.

For the positive-force line, positive readings indicate a bullish climate and negative readings indicate a bearish climate. The negative-force line uses the opposite interpretation. The note offers no empirical results, asset-specific guidance, or rules for entering and exiting trades. It also does not discuss parameter selection, normalization, or how to validate the signal. The indicator is best understood here as a configurable directional visualization, whose usefulness would need to be assessed against the intended market and trading horizon.

Key ideas

• ZPF combines smoothed volume with the difference between fast and slow moving averages of closing prices.
• The indicator exposes configurable periods and calculation methods for its price and volume averages.
• Positive values on the positive-force line represent a bullish market climate, while negative values represent a bearish one.
• The negative-force line interprets positive and negative values in the reverse way.
• The document gives no trading rules or evidence of predictive performance.

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