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Re: [amibroker] Smoothing the MACD



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Have you looked at changing the MACD parameters?  If I understand your concern, this would produce a smoother curve.  The AB formula for MACD() is written with Param() so changing parameters is easily done.
----- Original Message -----
From: cstrader
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Smoothing the MACD

Rakesh:
 
I'm using peak and trough on the MACD.  But I'm getting too many signals on my current MACD line becuase it is very rough.  I'd like to smooth out the line, which would be useful in addition to adjusting  the Peak and Trough sensitivity.
 
thanks
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [amibroker] Smoothing the MACD

A MACD is a lagging indicator per se( http://www.stockcharts.com/education/IndicatorAnalysis/indic_MACD1.html )  and has in-built smoothing.You could however use the Signal Line as a proxy for a smoothed MACD.  To digress from your question for a bit -  How much more smoothing would you find appropriate in it? A more reliable and less error prone method would be to trade MACD signal on zero line crossovers. You could consider buying/selling the pull back to the upswing/downswing which causes the zero line crossover. If you find this riskier you can add an additional condition of trading in the direction of the weekly MACD.


R

On 1/13/06, cstrader <cstrader232@xxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:
Is there a standard way to smooth the MACD?  I don't see it as an option.
Using EMA() as the input to it didn't seem to work.  I notice that some
software (but not AB) has 3 inputs to MACD:  Fast length, slow length and
MACD smoothing length.

Thanks



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