Shifted Movig Average

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Can someone please advise me on the following ?

When using a moving average in an EA it can be described as iMA(NULL,0,5,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE ,0)

How does one alter this code to give the same moving average but shifted either forward or backwards ?

Many thanks for your kind assistance.

 

This will shift a 5 period MA forward by 5 periods.

shift = 5;

ma = iMA(NULL,0,5,shift,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE ,0);

and for -5 periods,

shift = -5;

ma = iMA(NULL,0,5,shift,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE ,0);

 

Thanks 4xCoder

if I understand you this means I can add something like:

ema = iMA(NULL,0,5,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE ,0);

emaprevious = iMA(NULL,0,5,0,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE ,1);

emashift = shift = 5;

iMA(NULL,0,5,shift,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE ,0);

emashiftprevious = shift = 5;

ima = iMA(NULL,0,5,shift,MODE_EMA,PRICE_CLOSE ,1);

to define them so that I can write an alert setup ?

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