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            Changing SMA to EMA
            
                 28 Mar 2018, 15:42
            
                    
Hi,
I've tried myself but can't figure it out, can anyone tell me how to change the moving average in this strategy from SMA to EMA? Thank you.
using System;
using System.Linq;
using cAlgo.API;
using cAlgo.API.Indicators;
using cAlgo.API.Internals;
using cAlgo.Indicators;
namespace cAlgo
{
    [Robot(TimeZone = TimeZones.UTC, AccessRights = AccessRights.None)]
    public class SampleTrendcBot : Robot
    {
        [Parameter("MA Type")]
        public MovingAverageType MAType { get; set; }
        [Parameter()]
        public DataSeries SourceSeries { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Slow Periods", DefaultValue = 10)]
        public int SlowPeriods { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Fast Periods", DefaultValue = 5)]
        public int FastPeriods { get; set; }
        [Parameter("Quantity (Lots)", DefaultValue = 1, MinValue = 0.01, Step = 0.01)]
        public double Quantity { get; set; }
        private MovingAverage slowMa;
        private MovingAverage fastMa;
        private const string label = "Sample Trend cBot";
        protected override void OnStart()
        {
            fastMa = Indicators.MovingAverage(SourceSeries, FastPeriods, MAType);
            slowMa = Indicators.MovingAverage(SourceSeries, SlowPeriods, MAType);
        }
        protected override void OnTick()
        {
            var longPosition = Positions.Find(label, Symbol, TradeType.Buy);
            var shortPosition = Positions.Find(label, Symbol, TradeType.Sell);
            var currentSlowMa = slowMa.Result.Last(0);
            var currentFastMa = fastMa.Result.Last(0);
            var previousSlowMa = slowMa.Result.Last(1);
            var previousFastMa = fastMa.Result.Last(1);
            if (previousSlowMa > previousFastMa && currentSlowMa <= currentFastMa && longPosition == null)
            {
                if (shortPosition != null)
                    ClosePosition(shortPosition);
                ExecuteMarketOrder(TradeType.Buy, Symbol, VolumeInUnits, label);
            }
            else if (previousSlowMa < previousFastMa && currentSlowMa >= currentFastMa && shortPosition == null)
            {
                if (longPosition != null)
                    ClosePosition(longPosition);
                ExecuteMarketOrder(TradeType.Sell, Symbol, VolumeInUnits, label);
            }
        }
        private long VolumeInUnits
        {
            get { return Symbol.QuantityToVolume(Quantity); }
        }
    }
}

PanagiotisCharalampous
28 Mar 2018, 15:47 ( Updated at: 21 Dec 2023, 09:20 )
Hi _internet,
You can choose your MA Type from the cBot parameters. See below
Best Regards,
Panagiotis
@PanagiotisCharalampous