Check direction simple moving average

firemyst
01 Sep 2020, 17:55

RE:

luca.tocchi said:

how do i check the direction of the moving averages in real time and if they go high i go buy if they go low i sell?

Thanks a lot

You get the current value of the MA and can compare it to the previous value to see if it's increasing or decreasing.

//example pseudo-code
if (ma.Result.Last(0) > ma.Result.Last(1))
    //open long position 
else if (ma.Result.Last(0) < ma.Result.Last(1))
    //open short position
else
   //the ma values are equal. What do you want to do?

luca.tocchi
02 Sep 2020, 20:03

RE: RE:

firemyst said:

luca.tocchi said:

how do i check the direction of the moving averages in real time and if they go high i go buy if they go low i sell?

Thanks a lot

You get the current value of the MA and can compare it to the previous value to see if it's increasing or decreasing.

//example pseudo-code
if (ma.Result.Last(0) > ma.Result.Last(1))
    //open long position 
else if (ma.Result.Last(0) < ma.Result.Last(1))
    //open short position
else
   //the ma values are equal. What do you want to do?

 

Yes sure

but I have to check 3 moving averages, if all 3 are up go buy, if all 3 are down go sell

but if at least one of these averages goes in the opposite direction, the program must wait for all three to go in the same direction

I would be grateful if you could help me

firemyst
09 Sep 2020, 06:18

RE: RE: RE:

luca.tocchi said:

firemyst said:

luca.tocchi said:

how do i check the direction of the moving averages in real time and if they go high i go buy if they go low i sell?

Thanks a lot

You get the current value of the MA and can compare it to the previous value to see if it's increasing or decreasing.

//example pseudo-code
if (ma.Result.Last(0) > ma.Result.Last(1))
    //open long position 
else if (ma.Result.Last(0) < ma.Result.Last(1))
    //open short position
else
   //the ma values are equal. What do you want to do?

 

Yes sure

but I have to check 3 moving averages, if all 3 are up go buy, if all 3 are down go sell

but if at least one of these averages goes in the opposite direction, the program must wait for all three to go in the same direction

I would be grateful if you could help me

Then do the same thing for the 3 moving averages:

//example pseudo-code

if (ma1.Result.Last(0) > ma1.Result.Last(1)
    && ma2.Result.Last(0) > ma2.Result.Last(1)
    && ma3.Result.Last(0) > ma3.Result.Last(1))
    //open long position 

else if (ma1.Result.Last(0) < ma1.Result.Last(1)
    && ma2.Result.Last(0) < ma2.Result.Last(1)
    && ma3.Result.Last(0) < ma3.Result.Last(1))
    //open short position

else
   //the ma averages are all not going in the same direction. What do you want to do?