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Kevin_Wang28
Posted : Thursday, September 21, 2017 11:43:46 AM
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I'd like to scan the criteria when the arverage of close price of last X bars is in a very narrow range, or let's say slop of X( for example 8 Day) MA/EMA kind of flat. what would this formula look like?

 

thank you

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Kevin

 

Bruce_L
Posted : Thursday, September 21, 2017 12:05:50 PM


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The range of closing prices over the last 8 bars is:

MAXC8 - MINC8

You can express this as a percentage of the average price over the period as:

100 * (MAXC8 - MINC8) / AVGC8

So if you wanted this to be less than 5% for example, you could write this as follows.

100 * (MAXC8 - MINC8) / AVGC8 < 5

The 10 period linear regression slope of the 8 period exponential moving average (I used different periods so you can see which is which) can be written as follows in TC2000 v17.

6 * (FAVG(XAVGC8, 10) - AVG(XAVGC8, 10)) / (10 - 1)

The change as a percent of the average value of the 8 period exponential moving average over those 10 bars can be written as follows.

600 * (FAVG(XAVGC8, 10) - AVG(XAVGC8, 10)) / AVG(XAVGC8, 10)

So checking for the absolute value of this being less than 3% for example could be written as follows.

600 * ABS(FAVG(XAVGC8, 10) - AVG(XAVGC8, 10)) / AVG(XAVGC8, 10) < 3

The above formulas are all just examples. You can adjust the periods and percentages as desired.



-Bruce
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