Aroon Calculator
Calculate Aroon Up and Aroon Down from ordered entered highs and lows, with the exact rolling window, extreme indices and bars-since counts visible.
Enter one period and ordered high-low bars
Each output uses the current completed row and previous period minus one rows.
One completed bar per line. High must be at least low.
Latest Aroon pair
Entered Supplemental Indicators 1.0.0.
| Label | Index | High | Low | Window start | High index | Low index | Bars since high | Bars since low | Aroon Up | Aroon Down | State |
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How Aroon is calculated
Aroon Down = 100 × (N − bars since window low) ÷ N
Version 1.0.0 follows the published MetaQuotes period-bar implementation. The first value reports at zero-based index N − 1.
If the same high or low appears more than once inside a window, the most recent occurrence wins. With this exact N-row source profile, reportable values lie above zero and at or below 100.
Assumptions and limits
- Period must be an integer from 2 to 200.
- At least one complete period of ordered high-low bars is required.
- Rows must be oldest to newest and come from one symbol, timeframe and feed.
- Other implementations can use a period-plus-one window or a different equal-extreme tie rule.
- Trend, strength, threshold, crossover, entry and exit interpretations are withheld.
Worked example from the audited fixture
How to interpret the result
The two values encode the age of window extremes under the most-recent-tie rule. They do not measure the size of the move between those extremes, and 80 versus 60 is not converted into a direction or trade signal.
Frequently asked questions
- Enter a period and at least that many ordered high-low bars from one symbol, timeframe and feed.
- One hundred times period minus bars since the window high, divided by the period.
- One hundred times period minus bars since the window low, divided by the period.
- The current completed row and previous period minus one rows are included.
- Version 1.0.0 selects the most recent equal extreme, matching a current-to-older MetaQuotes series search.
- The published source searches exactly N bars, so the oldest possible extreme is N minus one bars ago.
- Not necessarily. A period-plus-one window or a different equal-extreme tie rule changes the values.
- No. Trend, strength, thresholds, crossovers, entries and exits are withheld.
Sources and methodology
- MQL5 Article — Building and testing Aroon systems — Published formula and period-bar iHighest/iLowest implementation.
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