Moving averages in its own indicator window

Greetings

I was wondering if anyone knows a way to get 2 moving averages to be in their own seperate window and not over top the price on the charts. I know on most indicators you can go into metaeditor and change the first line to seperate_window and it will work but I cant seem to do it with moving averages. Basically, I was just trying to get 2 seperate movings, one a pair of ema's, the other a pair of wma's, in two seperate windows at the bottom of the chart. Just wondering if anyone has ever found anything that would let you do that. Any response will be appreciated. Thanks

I'm pretty sure that if you go throught the tutorial here on FF about MQL that the very first 'excercise' is to plot a moving average in its own window below the chart. I don't recall what the MA was but all you would have to do is change the formula. The statements for plotting indicators in their own windows is very straightforward. I'm still learning myself....

Want an easy way ?

Open a RSI indicator. Under color, put " none "

Drag the Moving Average onto the RSI window.
Then choose whatever settings you want for your MA.

Personally I keep the RSI. If the MA's are crossing at the RSI 50 level, it signals a trade for me.

Good luck
highway

Hi all, i was looking for a home for this seperate-window-indicator and instead of creating a new thread saw this one and think the below indicator that i hacked into yesterday to test some ideas out fits well in this thread... Long intro, but you know i get paid by the word here in FF. grin.

OK i posted some of this over at the trading naked thread just as a silly, here is that post:

Hehe. I was bored. Today i was thinking about ways to get the clutter off my candles and remembered an indicator that plotted price, in the form of a line-chart, against two moving averages. So i did some tweaking and took it a step further... here is the result (and you can download it if you wish from here):

http://www.accrete.com/fx-atm/atm-PT7MMAexample.gif


Anywoo, What you see is a naked chart...then this pretty little indicator below. It is comprised of three moving averages that have "Trend" indicators attachted to their code, plus another four moving averages...all set against price (shown here as the thick black line).

All moving averages can have Period, Type, PriceMode changed per user. All colors can be changed. And the three trends can be any Period.Type.Mode you choose. Once price goes above below the mini, there is a signal given, then once the Mini is above/below the Main, and signal is given, then lastly, once the Main is above/below the Major, another signal is given.

This is all open code, so with a choice of any 7MAs, and 3 trends, this should be a happy addition to many models out there.

---end of paste.

As you can see this is an interesting way of showing simple price-action as it plays off various moving averages, which is a concept that i follow as taught by the James16group/PF.

I hope this is a help to someone out there, i had fun tweaking an already fine indicator by a fellow trader over at forex-tsd forum.

Cheers,
Thom

Lonespruce asked this question about a week ago. Here's my reply, with the custom indicator.

andersenws

highway3000, i can't do this. i try to drag but can't drag anything

You have to drag the MovingAverage from the MT4 Indicators NOT Custom Indicators. Drag it over RSI window and a dialog box will open. Chose your settings and on the line "Apply to " select Previous Window or Indicator "
Hope that helps

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