distance between 2 EMAs

[Touch-Ups]

Hello. Trying to restrict trades from entering if the 21 is too far from the 50. Or could be worded the other way. Only enter trade if the 21 is within a certain amount of ticks from the 50. Either way. Can it be done on the strategy builder? Thank you

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi Touch-Ups, thanks for posting. You would need to be able to do some math operations on the value of each EMA object, so unfortunately that would not be possible in the builder. You would need to check:

if(Math.Abs((EMA(21)[0]-EMA(50)[0])/Bars.Instrument.MasterInstrument.TickSize) > SomeTickValue)
{}​

Kind regards,
-ChrisL

[Touch-Ups]

Well... I ran across EMAticksaway indicator from here:

https://ninjatrader.com/support/forum/forum/ninjatrader-8/indicator-development/1137759-indicator-that-measures-distance-from-ema-of-current-candle

It would be perfect, but I can not get it to work in the strategy analyzer. I don't get any errors. It just will not allow any trades when I run it.

[Touch-Ups]

Never mind. Got the price from ema to work. That is not what I wanted. Got myself confused messing with this so much. Really want the ema distance thing, but if it can't be done, then you have answered my question. thanks

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

Hi Touch-Ups, thanks for the follow up.The indicator was not adding a Plot that strategies need to read data. I added a Plot object to it called "DifferenceValue". It is now useable in a strategy.

Kind regards.

[NinjaTrader_ChrisL]

If you set the input series to an EMA you can take the difference of two EMA objects e.g.

https://clauber.tinytake.com/msc/NzQ0NTMzOF8yMDM0OTI0Ng

Kind regards,
-ChrisL

[Tasker-182]

You can work with the distance between moving averages in the strategy builder. It requires using the "offset" for the math of subtracting one from the other and it would require using the "points" instead of a tick reference.

I've attached an example using the MES 12-22, which has 4 ticks per point. In the example I created the conditions to look for a spread of less than or equal to +/- 1 (4 ticks) and when true to color the background. You use the +/- because sometimes one moving average is above or below the other. As you can see it is showing correct functionality.




Here is a link to the strategy builder help guide on Offset: https://ninjatrader.com/support/help...setAnItemValue

It would also be possible to convert to ticks however it is more complex and involves storing values in custom series in the strategy builder.