Trading system on Ethereum with ADX
This new article will examine, and test on Ethereum, one of the most widely used indicators in trading for trend following type strategies: ADX. This indicator, whose acronym stands for “Average Directional Movement Index,” is used to measure the strength of a trend. If the indicator tends toward low values then the trend will be almost absent, but if the ADX takes high values then the underlying trend will be more significant. An example of how ADX is used on an Ethereum chart can be seen in Figure 1. The indicator ranging from 0 to 100 is calculated over the last 5 days, and as can be seen in the initial part of the chart, in the presence of extended and explicit trends, the indicator takes values above the average threshold line of 50. During the up-trend that occurred on Ethereum in early 2023 it was seen how the ADX went from a value of 20 to highs of over 90. The crypto market does spend a lot of time in a trend, whether bullish or bearish, and it is therefore very likely to see very high ADX values as in the case just described. An important distinction is also made by the fact that ADX