Creating a Skip Bar moving average

[FuturesPhantom]

Does anyone know if its possible to create a simple moving average based on lets say the close of every 4th bar instead of every bar? You would be basically skipping three out of every four bars to create a moving average? If anyone knows a way to do this or has a sample code I would appreciate your help.

Thanks, FuturesPhantom

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello FuturesPhantom,

You could use custom logic. Loop through the amount of bars you would like and if the index modulus 4 is 0, then add to an array. Then add all values in the array and divide by the size of the array.

List<double> every4thValue = new List<double>();
for (int i = CurrentBar - 8; i < CurrentBar; i++)
{
if (i % 4 ==0)
every4thValue.Add(Close[i]);
}
double summedValues = every4thValue.Sum();
Print(summedValues / every4thValue.Count());