The Advanced Trend Indicators Library: ALMA, JMA, VIDYA & 30+ More

Beyond the classic SMA/EMA family, the Setup.Cash engine ships an entire library of advanced trend tools — every one available in the strategy builder and the Indicators Lab. Here's what each does and when to reach for it.

Adaptive & Low-Lag Moving Averages

• Arnaud Legoux MA (ALMA): Gaussian-weighted average with adjustable offset — smooth and responsive; a favorite for slope filters.
• Jurik MA (JMA): famously smooth low-lag average from Jurik Research's filtering work.
• MESA Adaptive MA (MAMA): John Ehlers' Hilbert-transform average that adapts to the market's dominant cycle.
• Variable Index Dynamic Avg (VIDYA): speeds up when momentum (CMO) is strong, stalls in chop — same idea as KAMA.
• McGinley Dynamic: self-adjusting average designed to never separate far from price.
• Zero Lag MA (ZLMA): de-lagged EMA using an error-correction term.
• Tillson T3: triple-smoothed with a volume factor — silk-smooth trend line.

Weighted & Specialty Averages

• Volume Weighted MA (VWMA): weights each bar by volume — the trend as money actually traded it.
• Triangular MA (TRIMA): double-smoothed, center-weighted; extremely smooth, deliberately slow.
• Fibonacci Weighted MA (FWMA), Sine Weighted MA (SINWMA), Symmetric Weighted MA (SWMA), Pascal Weighted MA (PWMA): alternative weighting curves, each shaping responsiveness differently.
• Holt-Winters MA (HWMA): forecasting-model average with level/trend/seasonality smoothing.
• Wilder's MA (RMA) and Smoothed MA (SMMA): the slow, steady averages inside RSI and ATR, available standalone.
• Super Smoother Filter (SSF / SSF3): Ehlers' 2-pole and 3-pole filters that remove noise below the tradeable cycle length.

Trend Detectors & Transforms

• AlphaTrend: ATR-based trend line with built-in momentum gating — a Supertrend evolution.
• Gann HiLo Activator: flips a stop line based on the average of recent highs/lows; simple trailing logic.
• Williams Alligator: three offset smoothed averages (jaw/teeth/lips) that "sleep" in ranges and "eat" in trends — pairs with Fractals.
• Hilbert Transform Trendline: Ehlers' instantaneous trendline from cycle analysis.
• Reflex & TrendFlex: modern Ehlers oscillators separating trend turns from cycle swings with minimal lag.
• Know Sure Thing (KST) and Coppock Curve: weighted rate-of-change composites built for major cycle turns — Coppock was designed for calling bear-market bottoms.
• Correlation Trend Indicator (CTI): correlation of price with a straight line — +1 means a perfect uptrend.
• Efficiency Ratio (ER): Kaufman's trend-quality score (net move ÷ path length), great as a regime gate.
• Linear Regression / Slope: the least-squares fit through price and its gradient — statistical trend measurement.
• Heikin Ashi: smoothed candle transform that makes trend runs visually and programmatically obvious.

Price Composites

Midpoint, Midprice, HL2, HLC3 (Typical), OHLC4 (Average), Weighted Close: alternative price sources — feed them into any other indicator to change its character.

Using Them

Add any of these in the builder by name, or ask the AI indicator generator to combine them. Start with our moving averages primer, then backtest — the "best" average is always market- and timeframe-specific.