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IVY Indicator

by vinodliyanage· code credited to vinodsliyanage

A chart-overlay indicator that plots a 9-period EMA and converts the absolute distance between the close and the EMA into a confidence value using a sigmoid curve with fixed fitted constants.

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GitHub stars1on the repository
Pine versionv6current
Lines of code78
Settings3inputs
LicenceNone statedfile: MPL-2.0
Last update1 year ago8 Aug 2025

Add It to Your TradingView Chart

  1. 1Copy the scriptPress Copy script above, or the copy button on the code below.
  2. 2Open the Pine EditorOpen a TradingView chart and choose Pine Editor at the bottom of the screen.
  3. 3Paste over the templateCreate a new indicator, select all of the template text and paste. Press Save and give it a name.
  4. 4Add it to the chartPress Add to chart, then adjust the settings with the gear icon next to its name.

Source Code

78 lines of Pine Script v6 from archive/experiment-11/master/IVY Indicator.pine, published under MPL-2.0 (file header). Keep the author's credit and licence lines when you reuse it.

IVY Indicator.pine
// This Pine Script® code is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2.0 at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/
// © vinodsliyanage

//@version=6
// © 2025 Vinod Liyanage and Inoka Liyanage
// This indicator uses the actual sigmoid function and parameters discovered 
// from our Python curve fitting experiment to calculate trade confidence.

//@version=5
indicator("IVY Indicator", shorttitle="IVY", overlay=true)

// --- 1. Curve Fitted Parameters ---

// float L_PARAM = 8011.0506
// float K_PARAM = 0.0187
// float X0_PARAM = -524.5286
// float OFFSET_PARAM = -8010.1009

// float L_PARAM = 6425.9670
// float K_PARAM = 0.0117
// float X0_PARAM = -833.8248
// float OFFSET_PARAM = -6425.0809

float L_PARAM = 8204.5847
float K_PARAM = 0.0163
float X0_PARAM = -607.1471
float OFFSET_PARAM = -8203.6494

// --- 2. User Inputs ---

// These can be changed in the indicator's settings menu on the chart.
len_ema = input.int(9, title="EMA Length")
confidence_threshold = input.float(0.85, title="Confidence Threshold (0.5-1.0)", step = 0.05)
show_confidence_label = input.bool(true, title="Show Confidence Label")

// --- 3. Indicator Calculations ---

// Calculate the EMA and the absolute difference between the close price and the EMA.
ema_val = ta.ema(close, len_ema)
close_ema_diff_abs = math.abs(close - ema_val)


// --- 4. Sigmoid Confidence Calculation ---

// This is the core of my indicator. It's the exact mathematical function we fitted.
confidenceScore() => L_PARAM / (1 + math.exp(-K_PARAM * (close_ema_diff_abs - X0_PARAM))) + OFFSET_PARAM

confidence = confidenceScore()

// --- 5. Signal Logic ---

// We determine the direction (Up/Down) based on whether the price is above or below the EMA.
// We then check if the calculated confidence meets our threshold.
isUpTrend = close > ema_val
isDownTrend = close < ema_val

buySignal = isUpTrend and confidence >= confidence_threshold
sellSignal = isDownTrend and confidence >= confidence_threshold

// --- 6. Plotting ---

// Plot the EMA line on the chart.
plot(ema_val, color=color.yellow, title="EMA Line", linewidth = 2)

// Plot the Buy arrows below the candles when a buySignal is true.
plotshape(series=buySignal, location=location.belowbar, color=color.new(color.green, 0), style=shape.triangleup, size=size.tiny, title="Buy Signal Arrow")

// Plot the Sell arrows above the candles when a sellSignal is true.
plotshape(series=sellSignal, location=location.abovebar, color=color.new(color.red, 0), style=shape.triangledown, size=size.tiny, title="Sell Signal Arrow")

// Create and plot the confidence labels with the arrows.
confidenceText = str.tostring(math.round(confidence * 100)) + "%"

if (show_confidence_label and buySignal)
    label.new(bar_index, low, text=confidenceText, color=color.new(color.green, 20), textcolor=color.white, style=label.style_label_up, yloc=yloc.price, size=size.tiny)

if (show_confidence_label and sellSignal)
    label.new(bar_index, high, text=confidenceText, color=color.new(color.red, 20), textcolor=color.white, style=label.style_label_down, yloc=yloc.price, size=size.tiny)

Overview

A buy triangle appears when price is above the EMA and the value meets the threshold, and a sell triangle when price is below it. Optional labels show the value. Settings are the EMA length, threshold and label toggle. The curve constants are hard-coded and tuned to the author's data.

Details

Published by

vinodliyanage on GitHub

Code credit

vinodsliyanage, as written in the script's header

Type

Indicator, Pine Script v6

Draws

On the price chart

Category

Moving averages, Trend

Markets

Any symbol

Timeframes

Any timeframe

Risk Notes

No repainting, lookahead or stacked entries were found in its code or README. That says nothing about how well it works: test it first.

Settings

The inputs you can change from the gear icon on the chart. Defaults are the author's.

SettingTypeDefaultVariable
EMA Lengthint9len_ema
Confidence Threshold (0.5-1.0)float0.85confidence_threshold
Show Confidence Labelbooltrueshow_confidence_label
Third-party code. ForexR did not write, test or endorse this script, and the summary above was generated automatically from its code and README. Indicators describe the past, and a strategy's backtest can look better than live trading, especially when a script repaints. Check it in the Strategy Tester and on a demo account before you rely on it.

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