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Hello
I have a 4h strategy with a weekly moving average WTF. All works well in FSB but when I try to use it on FST the moving average is always zero! It works if I change the period to daily. I've already tried to increase the number of bars but it doesn't help. Any ideas?
Thanks
Nuno
What's the period and how many bars you have?
What's the period and how many bars you have?
Period around 160 and shift 70 but I tried with 5000 bars to see if it worked.
To have MA of 160 on weekly needs 160 bars;
on daily 160*5;
on h4 160*5*6;
on h1 160*5*24;
on m30 160*5*48;
on m15 160*5*96;
on m5 160*5*288;
on m1 160*5*1440.
Pretty self-explanatory, there's your problem (or should I say FST's)...
To have MA of 160 on weekly needs 160 bars;
on daily 160*5;
on h4 160*5*6;
on h1 160*5*24;
on m30 160*5*48;
on m15 160*5*96;
on m5 160*5*288;
on m1 160*5*1440.Pretty self-explanatory, there's your problem (or should I say FST's)...
I though FST would be able to get the feed from another chart to reduce the number of bars. I think I'll have to find an alternative then.
It is a problem! It has been lately on my radar also. When developer is back, I'll bring this to his attention.
In the meantime there could be a couple of workarounds, nothing what a coder can't handle, maybe Ahmed can throw something together until this gets fixed by the developer.
In fact I didn't report the problem properly. In FSB the problem also exists. If period < 90 the calculation is correct, otherwise it's not. Given that my timeframe is 4h, anything that requires more than 1800 bars won't work.
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