SMA200 up for down trend for easylanguage

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dumpforjunk

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• Jul 28, 2011

• #1

Is the following code correct for defining a up and down SMA200 trend: ?


if Average(C, 200) > Average(C[1], 200) then
upTrend = True;
if Average(C, 200) <= Average(C[1], 200) then
downTrend = True;


Thanks for any help

 

Pazienza

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• Jul 28, 2011

• #2

There is no right or wrong way for defining the trend.

 

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dumpforjunk

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• Jul 28, 2011

• #3

maybe I should have used a different variable name than "trend" but I just wanted to know if the code I posted is correctly calculating rising and declining (upTrend, downTrend) 200 day simple moving average.

Thanks

 

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ManiGandan

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• Jul 30, 2011

• #4

Hi,
Yes, That should give you the uptrend and dnTrend of 200SMA....

GoodLuck,

 

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zt3k

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• Aug 13, 2011

• #5

dumpforjunk said:

Is the following code correct for defining a up and down SMA200 trend: ?


if Average(C, 200) > Average(C[1], 200) then
upTrend = True;
if Average(C, 200) <= Average(C[1], 200) then
downTrend = True;


Thanks for any help

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the [1] should be at the end,
otherwise TradeStation has to recalculate the formula each time.

see this:

Code:

if Average(C, 200) > Average(C, 200)[1] then
upTrend = True;
if Average(C, 200) <= Average(C, 200)[1] then
downTrend = True;