ichimoku

Visualization and Tools for Ichimoku Kinko Hyo Strategies

An implementation of ‘Ichimoku Kinko Hyo’, also commonly known as ‘cloud charts’. Static and interactive visualizations with tools for creating, backtesting and development of quantitative ‘ichimoku’ strategies. As described in Sasaki (1996, ISBN:4925152009), the technique is a refinement on candlestick charting, originating from Japan and now in widespread use in technical analysis worldwide. Translating as ‘one-glance equilibrium chart’, it allows the price action and market structure of financial securities to be determined ‘at-a-glance’. Incorporates an interface with the OANDA fxTrade API https://developer.oanda.com/ for retrieving historical and live streaming price data for major currencies, metals, commodities, government bonds and stock indices.

Installation

Install the released version of ichimoku from CRAN:

install.packages("ichimoku")

Or the latest development version from rOpenSci R-universe:

install.packages("ichimoku", repos = "https://shikokuchuo.r-universe.dev")

Example

library(ichimoku)

Simply ichimoku() and plot():

cloud <- ichimoku(sample_ohlc_data, ticker = "TKR")
plot(cloud, window = "2020-05/")

autostrat() to automatically evaluate and rank top-performing strategies:

autostrat(cloud, n = 3)
#>                        [,1]               [,2]              [,3]             
#> Strategy               "senkouB > tenkan" "cloudB > tenkan" "senkouB > kijun"
#> ---------------------  "----------"       "----------"      "----------"     
#> Strategy cuml return % 17.49              16.08             14.1             
#> Per period mean ret %  0.0906             0.0838            0.0741           
#> Periods in market      63                 51                64               
#> Total trades           3                  3                 3                
#> Average trade length   21                 17                21.33            
#> Trade success %        100                100               100              
#> Worst trade ret %      3.64               3.16              3.49             
#> ---------------------  "----------"       "----------"      "----------"     
#> Benchmark cuml ret %   5.53               5.53              5.53             
#> Per period mean ret %  0.0302             0.0302            0.0302           
#> Periods in market      178                178               178              
#> ---------------------  "----------"       "----------"      "----------"     
#> Direction              "long"             "long"            "long"           
#> Start                  2020-04-20         2020-04-20        2020-04-20       
#> End                    2020-12-23         2020-12-23        2020-12-23       
#> Ticker                 "TKR"              "TKR"             "TKR"

Principal ichimoku functions

Data & Visualization

ichimoku() - to create an ichimoku object from price data.
plot() / iplot() - to plot (interactive) cloud charts from ichimoku objects.
archive() - for reading/writing objects to/from archive files with data verification.
oanda() - to retrieve price data from the OANDA fxTrade API.

Strategies & ML

strat() - to augment an ichimoku object with a strategy, including combined and asymmetric strategies.
autostrat() - to automatically evaluate and rank top-performing strategies.
mlgrid() - to generate a numeric representation of the ichimoku cloud chart.
relative() - to produce a statistical summary of the latest ichimoku numeric representation relative to historical values.

Real-time

oanda_chart() - to plot real-time ichimoku cloud charts using OANDA data.
oanda_studio() - a complete live analysis environment using OANDA data implemented in R Shiny.
oanda_stream() / oanda_quote() - to obtain the latest live data stream / quote from the OANDA fxTrade API.
oanda_view() - for a market overview showing the relative performance of constituents.
oanda_orders() / oanda_positions() - to retrieve the aggregate OANDA fxTrade order / position book.