inside days with closes above the 8ema

[Rag$]

I am having issues with the correct coding of a scan i am trying to build. On a daily timeframe i am wanting to scan for inside days with closes above the 8ema, can someone please help? I found this for the inside day...

# Inside and Outside Bar
# Mobius
# 8.7.2017

def inside = high < high[1] and low > low[1];
plot signal = inside within 1 bars;

And this is what i am using for above the 8ema

input ema_length = 8;
def ema = ExpAverage(close[1], length=ema_length);

plot signal = close > ema && open < ema;

but its not providing the right results. Any help would be really appreciated..>This is my first attempt at writing a scan and has been really difficult so any help would be really appreciated!

 

[halcyonguy]

I am having issues with the correct coding of a scan i am trying to build. On a daily timeframe i am wanting to scan for inside days with closes above the 8ema, can someone please help? I found this for the inside day...

# Inside and Outside Bar
# Mobius
# 8.7.2017

def inside = high < high[1] and low > low[1];
plot signal = inside within 1 bars;

And this is what i am using for above the 8ema

input ema_length = 8;
def ema = ExpAverage(close[1], length=ema_length);

plot signal = close > ema && open < ema;

but its not providing the right results. Any help would be really appreciated..>This is my first attempt at writing a scan and has been really difficult so any help would be really appreciated!

hello and welcome.
Are you loading 2 separate studies to run in the scan, or trying to combine all of the code in your post, into 1 scan study?

if you have all of that code in 1 scan that wont work. You can only have 1 plot function. You will have to combine the inside and the EMA plot formulas into 1 plot formula.

combine these 2 formulas,
plot signal = inside within 1 bars;
plot signal = close > ema && open < ema;

to become this,
plot signal = (close > ema) and (inside within 1 bars);

or this,
plot signal = (close > ema and open < ema) and (inside within 1 bars);

I don't know why you have open in the ema formula. You didn't mention it above in your words. that will limit when ema is true, to only be true when the ema line crosses over the body of an up candle.
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in the average function, there is no reason to put an offset of 1 on close. That will just delay the average data by 1 bar.
def ema = ExpAverage(close[1], length=ema_length);

change it to,
def ema = ExpAverage(close, length);

better to calulate the average with current data. if you need an older EMA value, then use an offset on ema.
def x = ema[1];