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To: Drygulch Dan who wrote (10)	12/29/1999 11:12:00 AM
From: nasdaqian	Read Replies (3) of 31

I'm a bit confused about the actual periods that you are referring to when you talk about 6 month, 1 year and long term charts. So, I can't really follow along with your examples. In the software I use it doesn't matter what time span you're looking at in terms of MAs. What matters is whether you're looking at daily, weekly or monthly charts. You can compress or expand the date range as you wish, but if you have a daily setting a 30 day MA is just that. If you switch to weekly then that 30 day MA becomes a 30 week MA. A pretty different animal. This is Omega's Supercharts. So, it's more useful to talk in terms of periods than days, weeks, etc. Now, having used TC2000 in the past, I know it allows more period options than daily, weekly, monthly. Like 2 day, 3 day, 2 week, etc. And I don't remember what those settings meant to the MAs. For instance, can you display a MA based on daily periods to be displayed on a 3 day chart or does the MA automatically then get calculated on a 3 day period. I have no idea what you use for charts but it seems crucial to know what actual periods are forming the basis for the MA calcs.

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