// AMFM: Ehlers AM Detector / FM Demodulator // John F. Ehlers — "A Technical Description of Market Data for Traders" // TASC, May 2021 (AM + FM) / June 2021 (strategy application) // Source: https://www.mesasoftware.com/papers/AMFM.pdf // // Decomposes price movement into amplitude (AM) and frequency (FM) components // using digital signal processing techniques from radio engineering. // // AM Detector: extracts volatility envelope from whitened spectrum // Deriv = Close - Open (whitening — removes DC, handles gaps) // Envel = Highest(|Deriv|, 4) (envelope detection) // AM = SMA(Envel, 8) (smoothed volatility) // // FM Demodulator: extracts timing/phase from whitened spectrum // Deriv = Close - Open // HL = clamp(10 * Deriv, -1, +1) (hard limiter — strips amplitude) // FM = SuperSmoother(HL, Period) (integration via 2-pole Butterworth IIR) //@version=6 indicator("AMFM - Ehlers AM Detector / FM Demodulator", shorttitle="AMFM", overlay=false, precision=4) // ── Inputs ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── int period = input.int(30, "FM Super Smoother Period", minval=1) // ── Common: Whitened derivative ─────────────────────────────────────── float deriv = close - open // ── AM Detector ────────────────────────────────────────────────────── float envel = ta.highest(math.abs(deriv), 4) float am = ta.sma(envel, 8) // ── FM Demodulator ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── // Hard limiter: 10x gain then clamp to ±1 strips all amplitude info float hl = math.max(-1.0, math.min(1.0, 10.0 * deriv)) // Super Smoother (2-pole Butterworth IIR) — integrates the hard-limited signal float a1 = math.exp(-1.414 * math.pi / period) float b1 = 2.0 * a1 * math.cos(1.414 * math.pi / period) float c2 = b1 float c3 = -(a1 * a1) float c1 = 1.0 - c2 - c3 var float fm = 0.0 fm := bar_index < 2 ? deriv : c1 * (hl + nz(hl[1])) / 2.0 + c2 * nz(fm[1]) + c3 * nz(fm[2]) // ── Plots ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── plot(am, "AM", color=color.new(color.orange, 0), linewidth=2) plot(fm, "FM", color=color.new(color.aqua, 0), linewidth=2) hline(0, "Zero", color=color.gray, linestyle=hline.style_dotted)