Recent content by Tuneman

Ok one last question, when I am looking at an interactive brokers chart, and I am looking at the time period of 1 hour and "how to show" is set at 3 mins, the 10 and 20 moving averages are different if I change the time period, but they also change if I change the "how to show" selection to 1...

Thank you nut, but i must say I dont think that adresses my question. I know the previous ema, so I dont need to do any array math whatsoever. My question was asking when does the current EMA become the old EMA. I can understand how the exact calculation is measured, however lets say i...

Yes but that doesn't answer some questions, such as when you are calculating the EMA, for previous EMA do you use the same number until that period ends? For example every 5 mins you take the current EMA and make it your previous EMA, and use the current tick as the new price?

So i used to look at a 5 minute chart that looked at the 10 period moving averages. I was wondering how this is calculated. Do they take a price every 5 minutes, and then use 10 of those? I am trying to calculate it on my own, and im having trouble wrapping my head around how i should do that.