Higher timeframe MACD values are incorrect and missing

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  • 12/23/2021 at 1:15 AM #183782 quote
    vsPRT
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    Hello,

    I have attached some simple code that grabs the previously closed MACD values from a 2-hour timeframe. After running this on 30 seconds, I noticed that a significant portion of time does not display any returned values whatsoever. On top of that, when opening a 2-hour chart and manually checking the values that are returned, they do not match up.

    This problem doesn’t occur when running the code on 1 minute.

    I was hoping someone could shed some light on this because I don’t understand what could be causing this problem.

     

    Cheers,

    timeframe(2 hours)
hist2H = MACD[12, 26, 9](Close)[1]
line2H = MACDLine[12, 26, 9](Close)[1]

timeframe(default)

return hist2H, line2H
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    12/23/2021 at 6:10 AM #183787 quote
    robertogozzi
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    Did you have enough units on your chart?

    Bear in mind that to calculate MACD, 26 (+ some extra ones for calculations + an extra one due to using [1] with CLOSE) 2-hour periods are required, each one of them requiring 7200 seconds (3600 each hour) for a number of seconds which totals roughly 200K seconds.

    I think that using 30 seconds, instead of a mere 1-second TF won’t earn you 30 times the periods, but almost the same ones.

    12/23/2021 at 6:51 AM #183788 quote
    robertogozzi
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    Do not embed files of any type in your post, as this slows down loading the pages.

    Attach them using the SELECT FILE button only.

    Thank you 🙂

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Higher timeframe MACD values are incorrect and missing


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Started: 12/23/2021
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