Studies · Moving-average oscillators

Pring’s Special K

specialK · Pring's Special K — the KST extended to twelve terms

Drawn in its own panelReads one column (close here)

Hover the chart to read values · practice data: a seeded random walk with no overnight gaps

What it measures

An extended Know Sure Thing: twelve smoothed rates of change instead of four, in short-term, intermediate and long-term groups reaching out to 530 bars. It packs the momentum of the whole business cycle into one line.

How traders use it

• Read as a primary-trend indicator: its own peaks and troughs mark the major turns that a four-term KST is too fast to call.
• Trend changes are confirmed when the line crosses a smoothed version of itself (you can add an SMA of it in Tidal).

Parameters

None — the study is fully defined by its formula.

Good to know

Needs about 724 bars before its first value, so this page uses a longer history than the others. Designed for daily data.