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To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (6176)8/27/1998 6:36:00 AM
From: MrBuzz  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 11149
 
Bug???

I am using QP 2.0 along with the new patch obtained from the web site
(7/29/98) not the new one posted of 8/26/98.

I tried to calculate the 200 exponential moving average for the
stock AEG based upon data up to today 8/26/98.

When I output the QP 2.0 data via the Metastock output utility
to Metastock 6.5 and view it, the 200 EMA is calculated to be 70.5762.

When I view this with Quotes Plus Chart 2.0 with the data window menu
option, I get 70.5762.

Now, when I write a scan as so:

Println Symbol, EMovAvg(0,200):8:4 returns 71.2372
Println Symbol, EMovAvg(0,199):8:4 returns 71.2114

First of all, I am getting results nowhere near
the QP 2.0 chart dataview value and the Metastock 6.5 EMA value.

Second of all, the documentation is messed up.

From the help documentation:

"

output="myfile";

if EMovAvg(0,9,vol)>EMovAvg(0,21,vol) then
println symbol;
endif;

In this example, EMovAvg(0,9,vol) returns today's value for a 10-day EMA of the volume; EMovAvg(0,21,vol) returns today's value for a 21-day EMA of the volume. The scan selects issues where the value of the short-term EMA exceeds the value of the long-term EMA."

And by the way:

Println Symbol, MovAvg(0,200):8:4 returns 65.7899
Println Symbol, MovAvg(0,199):8:4 returns 65.9204

which is correct in QP 2.0 Dataview, Metastock 6.5, and
on the scans.

Is there a bug in the EMovAvg function?

MrBuzz



To: Rick Slemmer who wrote (6176)8/27/1998 9:42:00 AM
From: Gary Lyben  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 11149
 
Rick -

The update won't go on the bbs, but you can download it and transfer it on a zip disk with no problems. You should be able to execute the program off of the zip disk.

Gary


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