Need help with setting up iMA

I'm trying to write an EA and would like the program to make a decision based on a MA. I want the MA indicator to ignore the current bar (which if forming) and only use data from the fully formed bars.

looking at the syntax:

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>is " int shift" the part of this function I should be interested in? If I set " int shift" to -1 will the indicator now ignore the currently forming bar, or am I way off here?


thanks


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I think setting the applied price to "PRICE_CLOSE" and setting shift to 1 should do the trick. I'm also half retarted when it comes to MT4 though so you might also want to wait for someone else to reply.

Hi Matthew,

Loki is on the right track, setting shift to 1 will look 1 bar back ... 2 two bars back etc. etc. (0 for current bar) .. so looking for the 34 EMA value of the last bar would be:

myMA = iMA(Symbol(), NULL, 34, 0, MODE_EMA, PRICE_CLOSE, 1);

Got it!!!

Thanks Akuma99!