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Terry and Treliff,

Thanks for the help guys. It is exactly what I thought. Definitely
have been thinking about playing with the log instead.


--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "treliff" <treliff@xxxx> wrote:
>
> StDev(C, 100) is most definitely standard deviation of the close.
>
> Indeed StDev(C-Ref(C,-1), 100) would be stdev of price changes.
>
> However you may consider the stdev of PERCENT price changes instead,
> because these are supposedly normally distributed (bellcurve: for a
> price series, if all goes well we know how much lies within 1 stdev,
> 2 stdev's etc).
>
> Next step would be to use the logarithmic instead of the % price
> changes (they closely resemble), as it is used in volatility
> calculations:
>
> StDev(log(C/Ref(C,-1)),100)
>
> Finally, this may not fit in your framework at all :-)
>
>
> --- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "Terry" MagicTH@xxxx wrote:
> >
> > Not being a real math wizard, it seems like you have the Close.
> > Substitute H-L for C for daily range, or C - Ref(C,-1) for day to
> day
> > changes.
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> > Terry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> On
> > Behalf Of axle_d
> > Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 19:42
> > To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [amibroker] Simple StDev Question
> >
> >
> >
> > trying to code the following:
> >
> > tenforty = (MA(C, 10) -MA(C, 40))/StDev(C, 100);
> >
> > my question is this:
> >
> > I want the StDev to be the 100-day StDev of price changes, is this
> what
> > I have above or is it simply the 100-day StDev of closing prices
> >
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