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Re: [amibroker] Smoothing the MACD



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As was said, the Signal line is a smoothed MACD

You could also just drag-drop a the EMA onto the MACD chart and tell
EMA via the parameters window to use MACD as its price

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On 1/14/06, cstrader <cstrader232@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I have the parameters I want.  I think that smoothing is/could be a separate
> function.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: wavemechanic
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 12:30 PM
> Subject: Re: [amibroker] Smoothing the MACD
>
> 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
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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 -----
> From: Rakesh Sahgal
> To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 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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