Studies on studies in MCFX Basic

Questions about MCFX and MCFX Data Feed.
yosnappyj

Studies on studies in MCFX Basic

Postby yosnappyj » 12 Feb 2007

Simple question: how do I apply studies to studies in MCFX Basic?

For example, I'd like to place RSI on the MACD histogram, Bollinger bands on DPO, etc.

Thanks for any help.

farmer
Posts: 13
Joined: 17 Nov 2006
Location: Michigan USA

studies on studies

Postby farmer » 12 Feb 2007

On the properties tab make sure which ever studies you want to put together are in the same subchart

yosnappyj

Re: studies on studies

Postby yosnappyj » 13 Feb 2007

On the properties tab make sure which ever studies you want to put together are in the same subchart
Thanks for the response, but I think I didn't express quite what it is I want to achieve.

If I place two studies together on the same subchart, I simply get two studies superimposed, based on one data source - for example I can display RSI and MACD in a single subchart, but the data source for each is (for example) GBPUSD. i.e. I have two curves superimposed on one axis:

RSI(GBPUSD) and MACD(GBPUSD).

What I need is to apply the RSI function to the output of MACD, i.e:

RSI[MACD(GBPUSD)]

To put it another way, I want to make MACD the Base Data for RSI.

With thanks.

User avatar
Kate
Posts: 758
Joined: 08 Dec 2006

Postby Kate » 14 Feb 2007

Yosnappyj,

Please try to use the settings shown on the screenshot.
Attachments
CustomLine.PNG
(24.25 KiB) Downloaded 624 times

yosnappyj
Posts: 112
Joined: 14 Feb 2007

Postby yosnappyj » 14 Feb 2007

Yosnappyj,

Please try to use the settings shown on the screenshot.
Thanks - that works just fine.

In the same way, I'm trying to apply Bollinger bands to RSI, but currently without any luck.

I'm trying:

BOLLINGERBAND(RSI(close,13),25,2)

BOLLINGERBAND(RSI(close,13),25,-2)

but this returns various errors.

I haven't found the documentation that refers to combining functions in this way, and I think it's likely that I've misunderstood how the arguments should be presented. Could you point me to the relevant part of your documentation please?

Many thanks.


Return to “MCFX”