Change indicator from SMA to EMA?

HI would someone be willing to change this indicator from SMA to EMA? with all the functions this is too complicated for me to do.

hey tony.... actually it's based mostly on ema's now in a round about way.....with 1 sma buried deep in the mix....

i'm not completely sure what your trying to accomplish and you mentioned not being code savvy so let me explain what's going on....

your indicator is calling another which has been modified to use the osma .... that modification itself could use some work.... the osma is based similar to the signal line of the common macd ..... the signal line is a sma of the difference between the 2 macd ema's.....

so, unless your wanting to change that signal line, there is nothing to change.... and unless someone knew the math behind everything they would have no idea a sma was there........

to change the signal line would require rewriting the osma or that macd_OsMaonly_4ColorHistM_Alert... either of which then would require rewriting your indicator.....


it sure seems like a dang lot of code thats doing nothing more than alerting when the osma crosses 0...... but maybe i'm missing something.....

it appears to me, the best solution would be to start completely over..... to do that we would need to know just what your wanting to accomplish.....h

Hi hayseed, this is the original indicator that i had coded into what you worked on yesterday. the original intent was to 1. Draw Arrows on the chart when histogram crossed the Zeroline. 2. Alert and Email function to work on multi timeframes no matter what platform timeframe was open to. Example; platform open to EUR/USD 1H, Alert display on for 15 min, 30 min and 1H. Email on for 15 min and 1H. What i need it to do is Alert or Email me only once when histogram crosses the zeroline. It is basicly a bar too late at open. Thank you for taking a interest.

hey tony..... ok, i got it.... will see what we can do.....h

thanks hayseed

hey tony.... those arrows your indicator ploted were kinda confusing to me..... there is hardly no way to draw any conclusion from them......

the basis of your indicator is the osma crossing the 0 line..... we can create an indicator that plots a distinct symbol for each time frame in it's own space on a single 5 minute chart..... as in the examples below.......

the number of symbols in a row corresponds to the timeframe relative to the 5 minute chart.....


when the 15 minute osma crosses, there will be 3 blue 1's cause there are 3 five minute bars in a single 15 minute bar..... there will be 6 aqua 3's when the 30 minute osma crosses...... there will be 12 lime 6's .... as there are 12 five minute bars in the hour chart..... and a whole pack of marron 4's, the 4 hour symbol......


this way you can see the relationship of osma crosses on the differing timeframe's fade in and out...... and of course the email alerts would still work if needed......h

Hi Hayseed, this is the system that I use for trade filter and for entries. It might help if I explain the system and how I trade it. When the OSMA crosses the zero line on a higher TF that alerts me to go to my computer, I look to see which way the trend is by which side of the zero line is on for the Trigger (5, 34, 3). If they are in agreement, (both the same color) I would then turn OFF the higher TF email and turn on the lower TF email. As in the attached pic, I would do for this pair. Now on the lower TF I would use the alert to enter the trade when the same requirements are fulfilled. I think all the dot's would confuse me, because I have spent so much time training myself what to look for. The problem I have now is, it is a bar too late.

Trying to post a screenshot but FF not allowing me to do so at this time. I keep getting an Error message.

No luck attaching a pic. sorry

Ok here we go.

Internet explorer was giving me some trouble so i had to switch to Mozilla. I hope this helps you.

Hayseed, i took another look at what you proposed and that would actually be fantastic!!! My linear thought process got in the way of seeing how much better this would actually be. Yes i would still like to have the ability to have an email function. Thanks, Tony