Calculating slope & percentage...

[funk101]

1. Can anyone help with the formula for calculating the slope of a line? ie: EMA?

2. Also, the formula for calculating the percentage of one line from the next ie: MACD, how far is the fast line away from the slower line, percentage wise?

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

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on 2) MACD knows these lines/data series: Macd, Diff, Avg. If you want to find out the difference between e.g. Macd and Avg in percent you could something like:

100 * (Macd[0] - Avg[0]) / Macd[0];

which will calculate how may percent the Macd is above or below the Avg.

[NinjaTrader_Dierk]

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I should have added that Macd[0] could be zero. You then will get a zero divide exception. So you need to add some handling for that case like:

double val = 0;
if (Macd[0] != 0)
 val = 100 * (Macd[0] - Avg[0]) / Macd[0];