Separation of two moving averages

[terminatorT1000]

I can't quite figure out with the strategy builder how to calculate the separation of two moving averages, lets say you have a slow and fast pair of moving averages, if in the shorter moving average the price takes off, they start to separate on the screen and the fast one will be higher by several points than the slow one.

When the market is in consolidation the two moving averages might not cross but would be closer together, and maybe separated by 1 point instead of many points as it would be in an uptrend.

There should be some way to compare the two numbers of each moving average and set a condition for the number of points or price difference that would represent the separation of the lines.

I have been able to figure out the Is rising and Is falling functions in builder for the moving averages which helps, but not the distance of separation of the lines. This may be useful to a lot of people. If you got any ideas about how to set this up in strategy builder, let me know.

[NT-Roland]

Hi terminatorT1000,
It's a bit tricky, but can be done with StrategyBuilder alone, if you really push it to its limit.
Step 1: Create a Custom Series, e.g. "SMADelta" of type double (tab "Addtional Data").
Step 2: Set this Custom Series.
Set 1 - "Do the following": Add -> Misc -> Set SMADelta -> Misc -> Under SMADelta ->
a: Indicator -> SMA -> ShortPeriod,
b: Under Properties -> Apply an Offset (math sign -) of
c: Set -> Indicator -> SMA -> LongPeriod
That's the first part :-).
Step 3: Build your strategy logic
Set 2 - "If All" -> Misc -> Rising -> Misc -> Series1 -> Pick Custom Series -> SMADelta -> Equals True
and ... SMA Short > Short Long (or whatever additional entry conditions you want to throw in)
Do the following: Enter Long.
Give it a try and have some fun with Ninja.
NT-Roland

[NinjaTrader_ChelseaB]

Hello terminatorT1000,

The strategy builder could trigger a condition if the lines are within a specified distance by using an offset.

Attached a screenshots that show the first indicator plot to be within 1 point of another indicator plot.

[terminatorT1000]

This looks like a real good way to do this, thank you very much!