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I am just starting out with c# and I am trying to get my head around chainning indicators.
As a starting project I have chosen the ema crossover strategy.
What I am trying to do is simple:
take the two emas, calculate the difference between them, calculate an ema of that difference and finally cross the difference with its ema to generate a signal.
emaShort = EMA(symbol, 10, Resolution.Daily);
emaLong = EMA(symbol, 50, Resolution.Daily);
//Here is where things dont work my way
// What is intended is to get the difference between fast and slow
//ema and then get the ema of that difference.
emaDelta = emaShort.Minus(emaLong);
emaDeltaEma = emaDelta.EMA(5);
when I use those variables (emaDelta and emaDeltaEma) in the trading logic below, I get the error message that they dont exist in the context. Obviously I have to register them. But where and how exactly do I do that?
Being able to chain indicators together is a very fine thing and my trading logic relies on this very heavily, it would help me very much if you could give me a helping hand here.
Andreas.
Stefano Raggi
@Andreas, the code snippet is correct, maybe you declared the emaDelta and emaDeltaEma variables incorrectly ?
Andreas Dekrout
@Stefano, thanks very very much man!
That was just what I was looking for.
Being a c# noob I had no idea that "
CompositeIndicator<IndicatorDataPoint>"
was what the .Minus() extension needed to be declared.
I am still struggling with the documentation...
Also thanks for making it a fxcm forex template (that was two flies:)
I will most certainly soon have a bulk of new and follow-up questions, but it is very reassuring to know that helpful people like yourself are out there.
Andreas.
Andreas Dekrout
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