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Hello LScharpen, Check and make sure the max bars back settings are
the ame for both indicators and also that the scaling of both are set
to same as the symbol.
Wednesday, October 19, 2005, 11:01:34 AM, you wrote:
Lac> I've been using TS products for a number of years and TS2000i for the last
Lac> 5. A few days ago I noticed some 'strange' behavior in the charting of a
Lac> Simple Moving Average. It was significant enough that I thought I'd check to see
Lac> if anybody else may have seen this or might see it in the future. Let me
Lac> explain.
Lac> Let me first give the specifics of the chart. I don't think these
Lac> 'specifics' matter much but they at least provide a concrete starting point. My chart
Lac> was a 1 min. bar of ES Z5. On this I had Bollinger Bands (20, 2 stdev) and
Lac> a 20 period SMA. I then happened to notice that it appeared that the 20
Lac> period SMA was NOT in the middle of the upper and lower Bollinger Bands. This
Lac> was confirmed in several ways. The 'visual' method was done by putting
Lac> ANOTHER 20 sma indicator on the chart and observing that the two different 20 sma
Lac> did NOT overlay each other. However, if I then turned the sma status OFF
Lac> and then back ON, the discrepancy 'went away'. Over the course of time, the
Lac> discrepancy would then slowly drifrt back into the chart.
Lac> It's a real pain in the ass to not be able to trust something simple like a
Lac> moving average. I've given enough detail so that it would be relatively
Lac> simple for somebody else to try to reproduce what I've seen. I'd sure appreciate
Lac> hearing form anybody who tries the experiment and, more important, from
Lac> anybody who has seen this problem and understands how to 'make it go away'!
Lac> Thanks.
Lac> Lee Scharpen
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