The traditional Directional Movement Index ( DMI ) is quite noisy, hence we experimented with our own version of DMI using JMA. The result is our "DMX", in which we injected JMA into the classic DMI formula.

The bottom half of this chart shows the DMX oscillator and the upper half shows how DMX might be used to generate trading signals. In this example, The DMX oscillator is paired with a trailing moving average (dashed line). There are two ways to enter long trades: when DMX crosses over the zero line and is above the dashed trailing line (trade "B"), or when DMX crosses over the trailing line and is above zero (trade "A"). Long positions are exited when DMX crosses under the trailing line. Similar (mirror image) rules were used for short trades. The blue lines link winning trades, and red lines link 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.