plotting the difference between two moving averages as a lower study in ToS

March 18th, 2013, 11:57 PM

Does anyone know how to take the difference between a 7 period SMA and 1 period SMA and plot it as an oscillator in a separate frame on ToS? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

March 22nd, 2013, 03:49 PM

Hi, 1 period SMA is in reality the price itself, say close.. so i'll add the option to input (in study settings) a fast and slow periods.. if you like still to use 1 for fast, that would be ok

also added the choice to input which price to use (close, HL2, HLC3,...etc)

so your code should look like this (from memory, I didn't try it but should work, if you copy/paste in a new study in ToS) ..

also this will produce a non-restricted oscillator .. so no high/low limits for where it can go.. similar to MACD basically .. if we need to restrict it, we may think of relating it to the highest/lowest values for a certain timeframe and they become the 100% limits (like a stochastic) .. does that help?

Code

declare lower;
Input price = close;
Input Fast = 1;
Input Slow = 7;
def FastSMA = Average(Price, Fast);
def SlowSMA = Average(price, Slow);
plot Diff = FastSMA - SlowSMA;

June 6th, 2014, 07:25 PM

I used that it was very helpful thanks
i have that set up and i threw in a zero line too
but i wanna but a boolean or something to show the cross over and under the zero line
...is there any way to do that?

June 7th, 2014, 08:08 AM

@xaifax, this would be a straight forward thing to do in ToS - we even have few options to how to display that signal to help a quality trade decision:
1 - can draw a vertical line when it happens, and change the color (red/green) based on the crossing direction
2 - can use an Arrow up/down on the lower study when the crossing happen
3 - can show that arrow up/down signal (or any other type of signal basically) on the price chart itself - there's a trick here, the upper study will need to be a separate one that does the calculation in the background but only plots the signal. it's up to you to ensure both that upper signal study and the lower one are in sync in terms of settings. then this becomes a regular MA crossing signal study (which I think is already built-in in ToS)
4 - other ideas .. audible alerts, display a study label that says "crossing-up" or "long" or something like that,

if you have a preference from above (or other ideas) and need help coding it, i'll be glad to help,
K

March 1st, 2015, 12:51 PM

Hi all,

Sorry to hijack this thread temporarily.

I want to plot a lower study that shows the difference between close price and its 50days Moving Average in an oscillator fashion (similar to RSI).

How do I go about doing it?

March 1st, 2015, 04:11 PM

JTun

Hi all,

Sorry to hijack this thread temporarily.

I want to plot a lower study that shows the difference between close price and its 50days Moving Average in an oscillator fashion (similar to RSI).

How do I go about doing it?

you can use a MACD with settings of 1 and 50 and 1 - i'm doing this from memory but I think that should give you what you're looking for if i'm not mistaken,

Cheers,
K

March 2nd, 2015, 02:25 AM

Thanks K.

I sorted out what I wanted with a zero line, much like what TS has done.

Cheers =)

plotting the difference between two moving averages as a lower study in ToS

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