The median is the value separating the higher half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution, from the lower half. For a data set, it may be thought of as the “middle” value. For example, in the data set {1, 3, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9}, the median is 6, the fourth largest, and also the fourth smallest, number in the sample. For a continuous probability distribution, the median is the value such that a number is equally likely to fall above or below it. (wikipedia)
The first part of the code is the median calculation of a Close price (function created by @Despair), then this median price is averaged with a non linear time series Simple Moving Average function that smooth the information and so improve the reading of values.
Idea come from this topic in the Spanish forum: nueva media móvil con precio mediano
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//PRC_MA of last X PriceMedian | indicator //01.05.2018 //Nicolas @ www.prorealcode.com //Sharing ProRealTime knowledge // --- settings length=5 priceMAperiod=20 // --- end of settings // median average //median calc once Median=0 if barindex>length then FOR X = 0 TO length-1 M = close[X] //this example takes the median of the last X values SmallPart = 0 LargePart = 0 FOR Y = 0 TO length-1 IF close[Y] < M THEN SmallPart = SmallPart + 1 ELSIF close[Y] > M THEN LargePart = LargePart + 1 ENDIF IF LargePart = SmallPart AND Y = length-1 THEN Median = M BREAK ENDIF NEXT NEXT endif count=0 sum=0 lastmedian=0 for i = 0 to barindex do if median[i]<>lastmedian then lastmedian=median[i] count=count+1 sum=sum+median[i] if count=priceMAperiod+1 then sum=sum-last last=median[i] break // endif endif next if last<>last[1] then avg = sum/priceMAperiod endif return avg |
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I have been trying this indicator and works perfectly on Light Crude Oil. I only have one question. What is lengh? and whaty is priceMAperiod?
I can guess the priceMAperiod is the moving average period, so it takes the last 20 prices. ( in this case) but lengh?
Thanks a lot
length is the period used to calculate the median price.
And the PriceMAPeriod? aren´t the same?
The PriceMAPeriod is the period to make the average of all the last X medianprice found.
Thanks a lot Nicolás. Have a nice day