Hi friends,
I would like to create an algorithm that takes the standard deviation of the EMA of a security, and buys and sells it when it is 1 STD lower and higher respectively. I can't seem to wrap my head around QuantConnects syntax, so if anyone could help it would be great!
Vladimir
Nested Technologies,
This may help.
Derek Melchin
Hi Nested Technologies & Vladimir,
To get the standard deviation of the EMA, we should replace
self.ema = self.EMA(self.stock, period, res) self.std = self.STD(self.stock, period, res) self.ema_std = IndicatorExtensions.Of(self.std, self.ema)
with
self.ema = self.EMA(self.stock, period, res) self.ema_std = IndicatorExtensions.Of(StandardDeviation(period), self.ema)
In the former, the standard deviation is updated twice on every timestep. The first update is done with the stock price, the second update is done with the EMA value. See the attached backtest for reference.
Best,
Derek Melchin
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Vladimir
Thank you, Derek.
Here is the corrected version.
Nested Technologies
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