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Conrad,
Your formula generated a minus times a minus...yielding a positive.
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--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Conrad Smith
<conradfsmith3@xxxx> wrote:
> Prestion,
> Actually, the formula that I wrote (based off your info) give
the resultsI wanted. Put the formula in MS and give both versions a
try. What mine does is chart a 13 dayEMA and another EMA that is the
13 day EMA minus a 5 day EMA.
>
> In order to get that last part, I get the difference of 13
EMA - 5EMA
>
> A:= Mov(C,13,E);
> B:= Mov(C,5,E);
> X:= A - B;
>
> Now I take that difference and minus it from the full 13 EMA to
get theEMA that is the 13 EMA - 5 EMA. I don't want to plot the
difference, I want to plot the deducted13 EMA.
> As for having too many minuses in the formula, you are most
certainly correct.
> If you plot the formula:
> MAP:= Input("Moving Average Periods", 2, 365, 13);
> Displacement:= Input("Periods Back", 2, 365, 5);
>
> A:= Mov(C,MAP,E);
> B:= Mov(Ref(C, Displacement),MAP,E)
>
> A;
> B;
>
> You will see that second EMA stops five days back (assuming a minus
period of five days), whichyou would expect, because (for example)
today's minused EMA could not generate until five days inthe future,
so I have to guess at the plots based off the recent prices.
>
> I hope this helps to make it clear what I am trying to accomplish.
>
> Thanks!
> Conrad
>
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