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Alligator
The Alligator is three smoothed moving averages of median price, each shifted forward by a different amount, drawn as a jaw, teeth and lips. Its whole purpose is to make the difference between a trending market and a sleeping one visible at a glance.
- Periods
- 13 / 8 / 5
- Shifts
- 8 / 5 / 3
- Method
- Smoothed (SMMA)
예시용 — 합성 데이터로, 실시간 호가가 아닙니다.
What the Alligator tells you
Three averages of different speeds, each pushed forward by a different amount, spend most of their time tangled together. That tangle is the point: Bill Williams' framing is that the market sleeps most of the time, and the only tradeable state is when the three lines separate and fan out in order.
- Lines entwined: the market is sleeping — stand aside
- Lines fanned out in order: a trend is running
- Lips crossing back through teeth: the move is losing its grip
- 1 Smooth median price over 13, 8 and 5 bars
- 2 Shift each result forward by 8, 5 and 3
- 3 Read whether the three lines are apart or entwined
공식 및 계산 세부 정보 표시
The Alligator is three smoothed moving averages of median price, each displaced forward by a different number of bars:
- Jaw (buffer 0) — a 13-period smoothed moving average of median price,
(High + Low) / 2, shifted 8 bars forward. - Teeth (buffer 1) — an 8-period smoothed average of the same series, shifted 5 bars forward.
- Lips (buffer 2) — a 5-period smoothed average, shifted 3 bars forward.
The smoothed moving average (SMMA) is the slowest of MT5’s four methods — each new bar nudges a running value rather than dropping an old one out of a window — which is what keeps the three lines calm enough to entwine convincingly during a range. The staggered forward shifts are what turn three ordinary averages into a fan: without them the lines would simply track each other with different lags, and the visual distinction between sleeping and awake would be much weaker.
In MQL5 the call is iAlligator(symbol, period, jaw_period, jaw_shift, teeth_period, teeth_shift, lips_period, lips_shift, ma_method, applied_price) and it returns a handle to three buffers. Both ma_method and applied_price are real arguments; the SMMA-on-median configuration is the conventional default, not a fixed property. Bill Williams introduced the Alligator in the 1990s alongside Fractals and the Awesome Oscillator.
신호
Alligator이 제공하는 백테스트 가능한 뚜렷한 신호 — 및 각 신호에 적합한 시장 상황.
Price vs Lips
Builder로 구현 가능Awakening
고급 로직Sleeping
고급 로직MT5 구현
MetaTrader 5가 실제로 계산하고 그리는 내용 — 이 페이지의 모든 규칙이 기준으로 삼는 사양입니다.
버퍼
| 인덱스 | 버퍼 | MT5 표시 방식 | 저장 값 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | GATORJAW_LINE | Line (blue) | Jaw — a 13-period smoothed average of median price, shifted 8 bars forward. The slowest line. |
| 1 | GATORTEETH_LINE | Line (red) | Teeth — 8-period smoothed average, shifted 5 bars forward. |
| 2 | GATORLIPS_LINE | Line (green) | Lips — 5-period smoothed average, shifted 3 bars forward. The fastest line. |
플랫폼 참고
가장 잘 작동하는 경우 / 주의해서 사용
어떤 지표도 보편적인 우위를 가지지 않습니다. Alligator이 도움이 되는 곳 — 그리고 오해를 일으키는 곳.
가장 잘 작동하는 경우
- Trending markets
- Deciding when NOT to trade
- Higher timeframes
- As a regime overlay on price
주의해서 사용
- Tight, directionless ranges
- Crossovers while the lines are entwined
- Low timeframes
- Changing the classic periods without validation
Alligator 전략 구축
신호를 진입 및 청산 규칙에 연결하고, 컴파일 가능한 MT5 EA를 내보내세요 — 코드 없이.
- Lips (5, shift 3)
- Teeth (8, shift 5)
- Lips crosses above teeth → Open Buy · SL 50 / TP 100
- Lips crosses below teeth → Open Sell
Alligator을 다른 지표와 결합
하나의 지표만으로는 충분하지 않습니다. 이 조합들이 Alligator의 취약점을 보완합니다.
Alligator + Awesome Oscillator
- Lips crosses teeth
- AO crosses zero
- Buy
No single-flow template pairs the Alligator with the Awesome Oscillator. Start from Alligator Cross and add an AO node with a Constant zero into a Cross node.
Builder 열기 →Alligator + ADX
- ADX > 25
- Lips crosses teeth
- Buy
No single-flow template pairs the Alligator with ADX. Start from Alligator Cross and add an ADX node with a Compare at 25 into an And gate.
Builder 열기 →Alligator + Fractals
- Lines fanned up
- Price breaks the last fractal high
- Buy
No single-flow template pairs the Alligator with Fractals. Start from Alligator Cross and add Fractals nodes with a Price node into a Cross.
Builder 열기 →Alligator + Gator Oscillator
- Both Gator halves growing
- Lips above Jaw
- Buy
매개변수
자신의 통화쌍과 시간 프레임에서 검증할 초기값 — 보장된 설정이 아닙니다.
| 매개변수 | 기본값 | 권장 테스트 범위 | 기능 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jaw period / shift | 13 / 8 | 8–21 / 5–13 | The slowest line and its forward displacement. Widening it makes the fan slower to open and slower to close. |
| Teeth period / shift | 8 / 5 | 5–13 / 3–8 | The middle line. Most crossover rules use this as one side of the comparison. |
| Lips period / shift | 5 / 3 | 3–8 / 2–5 | The fastest line. Shortening it produces more crossovers, most of them inside the tangle. |
| Applied price | Median | Median / Close / Open / High / Low / Typical / Weighted | Price series the three averages run on. Median — (high + low) / 2 — is Bill Williams' original choice and MT5's convention here, not Close. |
초기 프리셋
Classic 13 / 8 / 5 Bill Williams' original
Faster 8 / 5 / 3 Opens sooner, more false starts
Slower 21 / 13 / 8 Swing-level regime only
시장 예시
Alligator이 작동하는 곳, 실패하는 곳, 그리고 필터가 결과를 어떻게 바꾸는지.
The fan opens
After a flat stretch the three lines separate in period order and price runs — the awakening the indicator is built to make visible.
Crossover inside the tangle
Lips and teeth cross back and forth while all three lines sit on top of each other. Each cross is a trade in a market the indicator itself is calling asleep.
Regime filter suppresses the noise
Add a trend-strength condition and the entwined-period crossovers are all skipped, leaving the ones where the fan is genuinely opening.
FAQ
- What does it mean when the Alligator is sleeping?
- That the three lines are entwined and flat — the fast, medium and slow averages all agree, which happens when price has no direction. Bill Williams' framing is that this is the market's normal state and that trend rules should simply not fire in it. Expressing 'entwined' precisely enough for an EA is the hard part, which is why a measured filter such as ADX is often used as a stand-in.
- Why is the Alligator built on median price?
- Because Bill Williams designed it to track the midpoint of the bar rather than its settlement, which makes the lines slightly steadier on instruments with long wicks. iAlligator takes a full ENUM_APPLIED_PRICE argument, so Close and the rest are available — Median is simply the conventional default in MT5.
- Do the forward shifts matter for an EA?
- Yes. Each line is displaced forward by its own amount inside the indicator, so buffer values do not line up with the current bar the way a plain moving average does. Comparing price directly to a shifted line compares two different points in time. Read the buffer at the offset that corresponds to the bar you mean.
- Alligator or moving averages — is there a difference?
- Structurally the Alligator is three smoothed averages, so yes, it is a moving-average system. What it adds is the specific configuration — median price, SMMA, and three different forward shifts — plus a framing that treats the entwined state as an instruction to stand aside rather than a state to trade through.
- Can I build an Alligator EA without coding?
- Yes for crossovers and price-versus-line rules. The Alligator Cross template wires lips and teeth into a Cross node with all periods, shifts, method and applied price as EA inputs. Detecting the fanned-out or entwined state is the exception — that is a three-way ordering test the node palette does not express.
- How should I validate settings before going live?
- Backtest on quality tick data first, then run the EA on a demo account before risking money. When optimising, hold back data the search never saw and prefer settings that stay profitable across periods over the single in-sample peak — chasing that peak is overfitting the noise. No default or preset here is a performance promise; every value is a starting point to re-validate on your own pair and broker.