Coding for recent EMA crossover

• 07/21/2016 at 9:41 AM #10745
  Sam Macy

  Hi.

  If I have the following code, how could I include in the condition that the EMA crossover happens within the previous 3 days if it’s part of a larger scan with more conditions? As it stands this code could give results that have just crossed over or those that crossed over 6 month previous and are still climbing.

  In essence, sine EMA’s are lagging indicators I’d like to screen for crossovers that happened, say, within the last week or so.

  timeframe(Daily) EMA20 = ExponentialAverage[20] (close) EMA100 = ExponentialAverage[100] (close) Condition = (EMA20 > EMA100) SCREENER[Condition]

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  timeframe(Daily)   EMA20 = ExponentialAverage[20] (close) EMA100 = ExponentialAverage[100] (close)   Condition = (EMA20 > EMA100)   SCREENER[Condition]

   

  

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  08/04/2016 at 8:56 PM #11210
  Derek

  Maybe an event variable will help:

  If ema1 crosses over ema2 then Event = 1 Else event = 0 Endif

   

  You can then screen for event [1]=1

  

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  08/04/2016 at 9:06 PM #11212
  Derek

  The line breaks have got lost somehow in the code.

  If ema1 crosses over ema2 then Event = 1 Else event = 0 Endif

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  If ema1 crosses over ema2 then Event = 1 Else event = 0 Endif

   

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  08/05/2016 at 8:40 AM #11222
  Sam Macy

  Thanks Derek. I’ll give it a try…

  

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  08/05/2016 at 1:28 PM #11234
  Nicolas

  So what you want to do is to test if a crossover has happened in the past without having see it in real time? Am I right?

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  08/09/2016 at 3:06 PM #11413
  Sam Macy

  Yes – to see which stocks made the move in the last 5 days for instance…

  

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  08/09/2016 at 9:10 PM #11463
  Derek

  I have coded something similar here, I think:

  http://www.prorealcode.com/topic/screen-condition-c-within-last-x-days/

   

  

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