SMA with variable period

[bondcrash]

Hi there,

Newbie here.....

I am trying to setup an indicator for a Simple Moving Average where the period is the value of another indicator which has been already created (and which therefore can be itself variable).

Can somebody please point me in the right direction? The SMA requires to input the period, but in this case that would come already from an existing script.

Many thanks
BC.

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Welcome to our forums bondcrash, you could then just call the other indicator supplying the needed period in your SMA script.

double mySMAValue = SMA(Close, myVarPeriod[0])[0];

[bondcrash]

Thanks for your reply Bertrand. Have a couple of errors when compiling, and I think they are somehow related.

- CS1503: where it seems the argument of MyVarPeriod cannot be converted from double to int. I have applied a MathRound to MyVarPeriod so to get rid of decimals

-CS1502:where it seems there are invalid arguments for MyVarPeriod.

This is the structure I am using:

double MyAvg = SMA (Close, MyVarPeriod()[0])[0];

and

double MyVarPeriod = Math.Round(....,0);

Is the conversion to integer the issue? The MyVarPeriod seems to be compiling fine

Many thanks

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Yes, that's likely the case here, try casting that to an int :

double MyAvg = SMA (Close, (int)MyVarPeriod()[0])[0];

[bondcrash]

Thanks a lot Bertrand - worked. Cheers!