The Commodity Channel Index ( CCI ) is a MACD that has been normalized to a standard scale. The CCI is quite noisy, hence we experimented with our own version of CCI using JMA. The result is our "CCX", in which we replaced the standard moving average in CCI with JMA. Note how CCI in the chart is much noisier and its smoothed version (red line) lags behind CCX at reversals.

The chart below shows a simple trading strategy that enters LONG whenever the CCX oscillator crosses above the lower threshold line and enters SHORT whenever CCX crosses below the upper threshold line. Blue lines connect winning trades and red lines connect losing trades.

• Different time frames on a chart may produce different results.

• Please do not ask us for indicator parameter settings. Every market is different.

• Past performance of any trading system is never a guarantee of future performance.

• All trading strategies have risk and commodities/futures trading leverages that risk.