Does an EMA change positions depending on how many bars you load into your chart?

[Bentrade]

Hi there,

When you load say 1000 bars on a daily chart of the FDAX for example, you put a few EMA's on it. If you go right back the 1000'th bar, when the EMA's are displayed at that point in time, are they wrong as they don't have enough back data (if you're using a 100 day EMA, you'd need 100 days before the current bar you're looking at, correct?)

My question is do the EMA's look back further than the bars you load on a chart so that each time they are accurate?

Sometimes Ninja won't load the total history of a stock, especially on a daily chart - so does this mean the EMA's aren't actually accurate from day dot of when the stock was floated?

Thanks

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello Bentrade,

Thanks for your post/question and welcome to the forums!

Any indicator can only work with the data that has been loaded by the data series parameter "days to load" and will not look back beyond what is loaded. In the case of moving averages, you need at least a minimum of the period defined for the moving average to reflect where you would expect the moving average to be.

The indicators will only be as accurate as the application of it.