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Bulls Power

Bulls Power measures how far buyers can push the bar's high above an EMA baseline. It isolates one side of the market rather than netting both, which is why it is normally read together with Bears Power as the two halves of Elder's Ray system.

Default period
13
Centre
Zero line
Pairs with
Bears Power
Zero — buyers lost the barBulls Power(13) — high − EMA(close)

示意性 — 合成数据,非实时报价。

What Bulls Power tells you

Most oscillators net buying and selling into one number. Bulls Power deliberately does not: it reports only how far above a moving baseline the buyers managed to take the bar. Read alone it is one-sided by design; read next to Bears Power it shows which side is actually doing the work.

  • Above zero: buyers pushed the high past the baseline
  • Below zero: even the high stayed under it — unusual, and a strong bearish reading
  • Rising while still negative: selling pressure is easing
  1. 1 Take an EMA of the close over 13 bars
  2. 2 Subtract it from the bar's high
  3. 3 Draw the difference around zero
显示公式与计算详情

Bulls Power is a one-line calculation measured against a moving baseline:

  1. Compute an exponential moving average of the close over the chosen period — 13 bars by default.
  2. Subtract it from the current bar’s high: Bulls Power = High − EMA(Close, 13).
  3. Draw the result as a histogram around zero on buffer 0.

Using the high rather than the close is the whole idea. The close tells you where the bar settled after both sides had finished; the high tells you the furthest point buyers managed to reach at any moment during it. Measuring that reach against a lagging average turns it into a question about pressure rather than about outcome — buyers may have failed to hold the level, but Bulls Power records that they got there.

The reading is unbounded and scales with the instrument, so a value of 0.0009 on EUR/USD and 3.2 on an index can describe equally strong buying. Only the sign, the direction of change, and the comparison against Bears Power transfer between symbols.

In MQL5 the call is iBullsPower(symbol, period, ma_period) and it returns a handle to a single buffer. There is no applied-price argument — MT4’s version had one and MT5’s does not. Alexander Elder introduced the Elder-Ray system, of which this is one half, in Trading for a Living.

信号

Bulls Power 提供的可回测信号 — 及每个信号适合的市场状态。

Zero-Line Position

Builder 可实现
条件
Bulls Power sits above or below zero
最佳市场状态
Trending markets
典型用法
Confirm that buyers can still reach past the baseline

Turning Up Below Zero

Builder 可实现
条件
The histogram rises while still negative
最佳市场状态
Trend exhaustion
典型用法
Read easing selling pressure before price turns

Paired With Bears Power

Builder 可实现
条件
Bulls above zero while Bears is also rising
最佳市场状态
Trend start
典型用法
Use both halves of Elder's Ray as one condition

Divergence

高级逻辑
条件
Price makes a new high, Bulls Power does not
最佳市场状态
Trend exhaustion
典型用法
Anticipate a stall before price confirms

MT5 实现

MetaTrader 5 实际计算和绘制的内容——本页每条规则的依据。

缓冲区

索引 缓冲区 MT5 中的绘制方式 存放内容
0 MAIN_LINE Histogram High minus the EMA of the same period, drawn as a histogram around zero. Positive means buyers pushed the bar above the baseline. One buffer and one colour — MT5 does not recolour the bars that cross to the negative side, and there is no signal line to cross.

平台说明

最佳适用场景 / 谨慎使用

没有任何指标具有普适优势。以下是 Bulls Power 发挥作用的场景 — 以及可能误导的场景。

最佳适用场景

  • Alongside Bears Power
  • Trending markets
  • Higher timeframes
  • As a confirmation rather than a trigger

谨慎使用

  • Read entirely on its own
  • Comparing values across instruments
  • Very short baseline periods
  • Optimised periods without validation

构建 Bulls Power 策略

将信号接入进场和出场规则,然后导出可编译的 MT5 EA — 无需编写代码。

  1. Bulls Power (13)
  2. Bears Power (13)
  3. Bulls Power above zero → Open Buy · SL 40 / TP 80
  4. Bears Power below zero → Open Sell

将 Bulls Power 与其他指标组合

单一指标很少独立有效。这些组合弥补了 Bulls Power 的盲点。

Bulls Power + Bears Power

  1. Bulls Power above zero
  2. Bears Power below zero
  3. Two-sided rule
原因
Read both halves of Elder's Ray together, which is how the system was designed — one side alone only ever tells half the story
最佳市场状态
Trending
构建此策略 →

Bulls Power + Moving Average

  1. Price > MA
  2. Bulls Power turning up
  3. Buy
原因
Add the trend direction Elder's system assumes you already have, since Bulls Power measures pressure rather than direction
最佳市场状态
Trend continuation

No single-flow template pairs Bulls Power with a moving average. Start from Elder Ray and add an MA node with a Price node into a Compare.

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Bulls Power + MACD

  1. MACD above zero
  2. Bulls Power above zero
  3. Buy
原因
Cross-check one-sided pressure against a netted momentum reading, so a strong high with no follow-through is not mistaken for a trend
最佳市场状态
Trending

No single-flow template pairs Bulls Power with MACD — the portfolio template that holds both runs them as separate legs. Start from Elder Ray and add MACD nodes.

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参数

在您自己的货币对和时间框架上验证的起始值 — 非保证设置。

参数 默认值 建议测试范围 功能说明
Period 13 8–21 Length of the EMA baseline the high is measured against. Elder's 13 is the standard; shorter makes the baseline track price so closely that the reading hovers near zero.
Level 0 Your level, not an indicator input. Zero is the natural reference because it marks the baseline itself; other levels have no built-in meaning.
Shift 0 0–3 Which bar back the value is read from. Shift 1 compares against a fully closed bar.

初始预设

Reactive 8 Baseline tracks price closely
Standard 13 Elder's default baseline
Slow 21 Larger, rarer excursions

市场示例

Bulls Power 有效的场景、失效的场景,以及过滤器如何改变结果。

有效

Both halves agree

Bulls Power holds above zero while Bears Power lifts off its lows — buyers are reaching past the baseline and sellers are losing depth.

失效

One side read alone

Bulls Power is positive during a downtrend simply because the bar's high sits above a lagging EMA. Without the other half the reading looks bullish and is not.

已过滤

Trend filter supplies direction

With a moving-average condition attached, the same positive readings inside a downtrend are all skipped — pressure and direction are different questions.

FAQ

Should I use Bulls Power on its own?
It is not designed for that. Elder's Ray is a two-part system: Bulls Power measures how far buyers reach above a baseline, Bears Power how far sellers reach below it. Either half in isolation describes one side of a market that has two. The Builder's Elder Ray template holds both for exactly this reason.
Why does Bulls Power have no applied-price setting in MT5?
Because the MQL5 signature dropped it. iBullsPower takes only symbol, timeframe and MA period — the EMA baseline is on the close and the measurement is from the high. MT4's version did accept an applied price, so a ported strategy loses that argument with no error and no warning.
What does a negative Bulls Power mean?
That even the bar's high failed to reach the EMA baseline — buyers could not lift price to its own recent average at any point in the bar. It is a genuinely weak reading and comparatively rare, which is why 'rising while still negative' is a more useful signal than the sign alone.
What period should I use?
13 is Elder's default and the Builder template's baseline. Shortening it makes the EMA hug price so closely that Bulls Power collapses toward zero and stops distinguishing anything; lengthening it produces larger, rarer excursions. Re-validate on your own pair and timeframe rather than porting a number.
Can I build a Bulls Power EA without coding?
Yes. The Elder Ray template wires both Bulls and Bears nodes into Compare nodes against zero, with the period as an EA input — and because both live in the same flow, a genuine two-sided rule needs nothing extra. Divergence is the exception and requires custom MQL5.
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.

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