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This is not from MetaStock but Stock & Commodities magazine's bonus issue
1997.
"Triangular Moving Average - A moving average in which each day's data are
multiplied by a weight that increases in value at steady increments to a
peak value and then declines to zero at equivalent increments. The sum of
the weighted data is divided by the number of variables."
My interpretation; Odd length averages make the math cleaner, for a 5
bar(day) MA try;
Day Weight
today 1
-1 2
-2 3
-3 2
-4 1
Multiply (day*Weight), sum the terms, then divide the total by 5(n).
According to the above definition you may want to try using the weight for
today as 0, and the weight of -4 as 0, I haven't done this because it makes
no since to me.
It is an odd way to calc an MA, but I like the way it plots. Good luck
Tom Quinn
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> From: WLBaker628@xxxxxxx
> To: RealTraders Discussion Group <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: GEN: Metastock Triangular MA
> Date: Wednesday, October 22, 1997 1:09 PM
>
> Would a Metastock user please give me whatever info is available on their
> triangular moving average? Is there a help file in Metastock (like in
> SuperCharts and TradeStation) that explains/gives the formula for this?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Regards,
> Walter Baker
> WLBaker382@xxxxxxx
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