changing moving average period from code

firemyst
13 Apr 2023, 03:44

It won't change unless you create a new MovingAverage with the new setting or overwrite the previous one.

So after you change "period1", you should do this again:

param1 = Indicators.MovingAverage(param2, period1, MovingAverageType.Simple);

The Initialize method will only run again if you display the parameters window and change it that way.

If you programmatically change values, then you need to programmatically create new movingaverage objects with those new parameters.

yaghouti
13 Apr 2023, 09:19

RE:

i want to check some parameters on each tick and change the period1 from calculate,

would you mind please explain me how to do this task?

firemyst said:

It won't change unless you create a new MovingAverage with the new setting or overwrite the previous one.

So after you change "period1", you should do this again:

param1 = Indicators.MovingAverage(param2, period1, MovingAverageType.Simple);

The Initialize method will only run again if you display the parameters window and change it that way.

If you programmatically change values, then you need to programmatically create new movingaverage objects with those new parameters.

firemyst
13 Apr 2023, 10:17

RE: RE:

yaghouti said:

i want to check some parameters on each tick and change the period1 from calculate,

would you mind please explain me how to do this task?

 

 

firemyst said:

It won't change unless you create a new MovingAverage with the new setting or overwrite the previous one.

So after you change "period1", you should do this again:

param1 = Indicators.MovingAverage(param2, period1, MovingAverageType.Simple);

The Initialize method will only run again if you display the parameters window and change it that way.

If you programmatically change values, then you need to programmatically create new movingaverage objects with those new parameters.

 

Not knowing everything you want to do, it's not that complicated. In a nutshell, it'll be similar to the following:

protected override void Calculate(int index)
{
// do some stuff or whatever you want to do

//check and change
if ( [whatever condition] == true)
{
  //set the new period1
  period1 = 12; //or whatever

  //update the MA
  param1 = Indicators.MovingAverage(param2, period1, MovingAverageType.Simple);
}

//do whatever else you need to

}