Higher timeframe MACD values are incorrect and missing

• 12/23/2021 at 1:15 AM #183782
  vsPRT

  Hello,

  I have attached some simple code that grabs the previously closed MACD values from a 2-hour timeframe. After running this on 30 seconds, I noticed that a significant portion of time does not display any returned values whatsoever. On top of that, when opening a 2-hour chart and manually checking the values that are returned, they do not match up.

  This problem doesn’t occur when running the code on 1 minute.

  I was hoping someone could shed some light on this because I don’t understand what could be causing this problem.

   

  Cheers,

  timeframe(2 hours) hist2H = MACD[12, 26, 9](Close)[1] line2H = MACDLine[12, 26, 9](Close)[1] timeframe(default) return hist2H, line2H

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  timeframe(2 hours) hist2H = MACD[12, 26, 9](Close)[1] line2H = MACDLine[12, 26, 9](Close)[1]   timeframe(default)   return hist2H, line2H

   

  

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  12/23/2021 at 6:10 AM #183787
  robertogozzi

  Did you have enough units on your chart?

  Bear in mind that to calculate MACD, 26 (+ some extra ones for calculations + an extra one due to using [1] with CLOSE) 2-hour periods are required, each one of them requiring 7200 seconds (3600 each hour) for a number of seconds which totals roughly 200K seconds.

  I think that using 30 seconds, instead of a mere 1-second TF won’t earn you 30 times the periods, but almost the same ones.

   

  

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  12/23/2021 at 6:51 AM #183788
  robertogozzi

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  Thank you 🙂

   

  

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