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[amibroker] Re: Standard Deviation calculation question



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Sorry, I should have included some more info..

in amibroker I have stdev(c,5);
based on closing prices of: 
35.52
34.96
33.73
34.65
34.83


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "the_chairmann" <jhart_1972@xxxx> 
wrote:
> I'm experimenting with a standard deviation exploration but I'm 
> getting discrepencies in the resulting answer.  Take Alcoa for 
> example.  I get a 5 day Sd of 67 in Amibroker but a SD of 65 in 
> Excel.  I tried this over 5 & 10 day periods for other stocks and 
> got conflicting answers as well.  Is it because AB is a "moving" 
> standard deviation?  
> 
> From the AB help file:  Calculates moving standard deviation of 
the 
> ARRAY over periods bars


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