Displaced Moving Averages

[Mahsu01]

I see that in NT you can offset a moving average to the left or right. When you offset them to the right, is there a way to see the part of the average that is to the right (future) of the current price bar. Example: You create SMA that is offset 5 bars to the right. There should be 5 bars of average past the current bar. How can I get this to be shown? Am I missing some setting or is this something that NT cannot currently do?

[NinjaTrader_Matthew]

Mahsu01,

Thank you for your post.

If you set the Displacement to 5 bars from the indicator visual properties, you should see the SMA 5 bars ahead of the current bar - Is this not what you're currently seeing?

I've attached a screen shot to clarify.

[Mahsu01]

I just figured this out and yes you are correct in that it does push the SMA in front of the price. The one thing I did not realize however is that this also works in negative values. That is what I needed. Thanks for your help.

[BelaLenmon]

Thank you so much for the post. It's really useful.

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[Darth_Trader]

I know this is old, but I have a question directly related to it

I know you can displace the moving averages on the chart,

How do you do the same thing in the strategy builder?


Thanks,

- K

EDIT:
TO BE CLEAR: I want to displace my moving average precisely how it is listed in this post...to the right. However, the displacements in the Strategy Builder seem to imply offsetting the moving average up or down by price/percent/ticks. I want sideways...

Thanks again,

- K

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

Darth_Trader, the offset is for the Y value, correct. To displace to the right, just access a past indicator value, like on the CurrentBar work with the MA value from 5 bars ago - this is essentially the displacement then.

[Darth_Trader]

So let's say I want to measure if price crosses a moving average that I want displaced by say 4 bars.

I would set the CLOSE >/crosses above MA(4)? And that would work? (pseudocode obviously). Would ">" or "crosses above" be more correct in this case?


- K

[NinjaTrader_Bertrand]

The CrossAbove you could not use in this case, you would need to express the condition via the <> comparisons in the Condition Builder.

[bertochi]

Hello,
I came across this thread as I am having a problem myself using the crossabove and crossbelow condition comparing 2 indicators being the second indicator displaced. My strategy was getting different results if I used the cross condition vs a simple >< condition.

I can see on the last post Bertrand replied to the previous post saying that you can not use: CrossAbove(Close, EMA(14)[Displaced], 1) in a strategy. May I ask why? Anybody using something like this with any success? Thank you.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello bertochi,

Thanks for your post.

Correct you would not be able to use the CrossAbove() or CrossBelow() methods in the case of using a displaced plot as the method does not accommodate a displaced plot.

As Bertrand had previously advised, "The CrossAbove you could not use in this case, you would need to express the condition via the <> comparisons in the Condition Builder." and "To displace to the right, just access a past indicator value, like on the CurrentBar work with the MA value from 5 bars ago - this is essentially the displacement then."

I will write up a feature request to add this ability (CrossAbove/below methods to use a displaced plot) and will update this thread when I have further information.

[NinjaTrader_PaulH]

Hello bertochi,

The feature request to have the strategy builder use displacement plots in the CrossAbove/CrossBelow has been assigned to SFT-1638.

Feature requests are submitted for possible implementation in the future. There is no guarantee this will be included in a future release.