nikoschopen 2,824 posts msg #42425 - Ignore nikoschopen | 
3/24/2006 4:07:14 PM
  MACD Composite isn't currently supported by SF, but you can prolly code it ureself. Here's the MetaStock formula for MACD-C that I found on the net.
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 { MACD or Histogram based on multiple EMA's }
 { Incorporating automatic overbought/oversold
   levels }
 { ©Copyright 2005 Jose Silva }
 { http://www.metastocktools.com }
 
 { User inputs }
 plot1:=Input("[1]MACD,  [2]Histogram",1,2,1);
 plot2:=Input("[1]MACD/Hist,  [2]Normalized",
  1,2,1);
 pds:=Input("Signal/Histogram EMA periods",
  2,260,21);
 
 { Composite-EMA MACD/Histogram }
 ema1:=
   Mov(C,3,E)
  +Mov(C,5,E)
  +Mov(C,8,E)
  +Mov(C,11,E)
  +Mov(C,14,E)
  +Mov(C,17,E);
 ema2:=
   Mov(C,30,E)
  +Mov(C,35,E)
  +Mov(C,40,E)
  +Mov(C,45,E)
  +Mov(C,50,E)
  +Mov(C,56,E);
 emaComp:=ema1-ema2;
 signal:=Mov(emaComp,pds,E);
 hist:=emaComp-signal;
 
 { Choose MACD or Histogram }
 MacdH:=If(plot1=1,emaComp,hist);
 
 { Normalized MACD/Histogram }
 normMod:=Highest(MacdH)-Lowest(MacdH);
 normMod:=If(normMod=0,.000001,normMod);
 MacdHnorm:=
  ((MacdH-Lowest(MacdH))/normMod-.5)*200;
 
 { Choose standard/normalized }
 MacdComp:=If(plot2=1,MacdH,MacdHnorm);
 signal:=Mov(MacdComp,pds,E);
 
 { MACD/Hist average }
 avg:=Cum(MacdComp)/Cum(IsDefined(MacdComp));
 
 { MACD/Hist auto boundaries }
 pk:=Ref(MacdComp,-1)>MacdComp
  AND Ref(MacdComp,-1)>Ref(MacdComp,-2)
  AND Ref(MacdComp,-1)>avg;
 pkVal:=ValueWhen(1,pk,Ref(MacdComp,-1));
 tr:=Ref(MacdComp,-1)<MacdComp
  AND Ref(MacdComp,-1)<Ref(MacdComp,-2)
  AND Ref(MacdComp,-1)<avg;
 trVal:=ValueWhen(1,tr,Ref(MacdComp,-1));
 Obought:=Cum(pkVal)/Cum(IsDefined(pkVal));
 Osold:=Cum(trVal)/Cum(IsDefined(trVal));
 
 { Plot in own window }
 Obought;                { Red  }
 avg;                    { Grey }
 Osold;                  { Blue }
 If(plot1=1,signal,avg); { Green }
 MacdComp                { Yellow }
 
 
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