Indicator start in strategy

[symphys]

I Add() an EMA in my strategy to the chart and want the indicator to start at the first bar of the historical data.

This does not work:

EMA(10).BarsRequired = 0;
Add(EMA(10));

Also my strategy has BarsRequired = 0;

How can it be done?

[marcow]

This can't be done, because the EMA(10) needs 10 bars to calculate before it produces a value.
The value of the EMA(10) is the average of the previous 10 bars; at the start of your historical data there are no previous 10 bars, so it will wait for the first 10 bars to appear until it produces a value (and hence becomes visible on the chart)


Marco

[symphys]

Yeah, right. Stupid me was so late yesterday. Thanks for the reminder...