EMA 10-50 Cross Trading Strategy
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Seems like solid proof short term EMA crosses don't work well :) Perhaps you could experiment with the purchase size?
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I have the feeling your moving average does not move forward:
ema10.Push(Securities["IBM"].Close);
ema50.Push(Securities["IBM"].Close);
if (ema10.EMA > ema50.EMA)
{The Push does only enque, not calculate the average. It is quite hard to debug online in the cloud to set a breakpoint to what your code is actually doing. So this is just a visual interpretation of your code. It would make sense since ema10.EMA is effective after 10 ticks and the ema50 needs 5 times more data. At start both are zero, so ema10.EMA is larger after 10 ticks. I assume data comes in every 1 minute, so N=10 and N=50 means you look on 10-50 minutes scale?
J.
Re: EMA -- Pushing into a Queue
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Sample code (not tested yet!):
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Linq;
using QuantConnect;
using QuantConnect.Models;
namespace QuantConnect.Algorithm.Library
{
///
/// An indicator shows the average value of secuitry's price
/// over a set period
///
public class ExponentialMovingAverage
{
private int _period;
private decimal _ema;
private bool _initialized;
private Queue _data = new Queue();
public void Clear()
{
_data.Clear();
}
///
/// EMA value
///
public decimal EMA
{
get { return _ema; }
}
private decimal ExponentialComponent
{
get { return (decimal) 2 / (_period + 1); }
}
///
/// Initialise the Algorithm
///
public ExponentialMovingAverage(int period)
{
_period = period;
_ema = 0;
_initialized = false;
}
public bool IsInitialized
{
get { return _initialized;}
}
///
/// Calculate the exponential moving average
///
public bool Push(decimal priceToday)
{
if (_initialized)
{
_ema = (1 - ExponentialComponent) * _ema + ExponentialComponent * priceToday;
//http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_average#Exponential_moving_average
}
else
{
_data.Enqueue(priceToday);
if (_data.Count >= _period)
{
_ema = _data.Average();
_initialized = true;
}
}
return _initialized;
}
}
}
namespace QuantConnect
{
using QuantConnect.Models;
///
/// Online exponential moving average indicator class:
///
public class EMA : Indicator
{
///
/// Initialize a new instance of the online EMA.
///
/// number of samples in the EMA.
public EMA(int period) {
_period = period;
}
private decimal _ema = 0;
private decimal _period = 0;
///
/// Period of the EMA.
///
public decimal Period
{
get {
return _period;
}
}
///
/// Last calculated EMA
///
public decimal Result
{
get {
return _ema;
}
}
///
/// Push in the latest price and get back an updated EMA.
///
/// latest price of asset
///Period EMA
public decimal Push(decimal latestPrice) {
try
{
//Set the first value of EMA.
if (_ema == 0) _ema = latestPrice;
//Online EMA
_ema = (1m / _period) * latestPrice + ((_period - 1m) / _period) * _ema;
}
catch (Exception err)
{
throw new Exception("Indicator: EMA(): Sorry there was an error your EMA: " + err.Message);
}
return _ema;
}
///
/// Push in the last market data to get the period based EMA.
///
/// Tick Market Data
///Decimal EMA over the requested period.
public decimal Push(Tick tick)
{
return Push(tick.Price);
}
///
/// Push in the last market data to get the period based EMA.
///
/// TradeBar Market Data
///Decimal EMA over the requested period.
public decimal Push(TradeBar bar)
{
return Push(bar.Price);
}
} // End Indicator Class
} // End QC Namespace
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