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Great! Now sorted. Thanks also to Mike...

Cheers,
Ian

> Your chart is normalized between the lowest low and the highest high 
> of
> whatever # bars in chart you have.  Your indicators are plotted on 
> the chart
> similarly between their highest highs and lowest lows.  For each 
> indicator
> give these points the value 100 and 0, and you get comparable values 
> which
> do cross.
> 
> Example:
> New Indicator= (Your Indicator - LL)*100/(HH-LL)
> 
> Good luck.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Waugh" <ianwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <ianwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 5:13 PM
> Subject: Normalising ranges
> 
> 
> > Can someone help me with this please...?
> >
> > I have two oscillators with different ranges. They aren't bound 
> > between
> > fixed ranges (such as between -100 and +100) but vary according to 
> > the
> > data. Neither actually has an upper or lower limit although they do 
> > have
> > their own "average" range.
> >
> > When they are plotted on the same chart their crossover points are
> > interesting. I'd like to code this into a system test but can't 
> > because
> > although they cross visually on the chart, their values are 
> > different
> > (er, make sense?).
> >
> > So I figure I need something like a normalisation function to make 
> > both
> > their ranges the same. Can some maths-type person help, please...?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ian
> >