Repaints Multi-timeframe (MTF) Moving Average Indicator for ThinkorSwim

[BenTen]

If you want to display moving averages from higher timeframe such as the hourly or daily on your lower timeframe chart, this indicator will help you do that. It basically displays higher timeframe moving averages on your 5m, 15m, or 30m chart. Anything with a higher timeframe moving average will work.

Here I have the 20 Daily Exponential Moving Average on my 15 minute chart.

You have the option between EMA, SMA (simple moving average), Hull, Weighted, and Wilders.

thinkScript Code

# MTF Moving Average

input Period = aggregationPeriod.HOUR;
input AvgType = averageType.SIMPLE;
input Length = 50;
input priceclose = close;

plot AVG = MovingAverage(AvgType, close(period = Period), Length);
AVG.setdefaultcolor(color.yellow);

Shareable Link

https://tos.mx/5BpIqL

I'm unable to locate the original developer of this indicator. If you know who made this, please let me know.

Video Tutorial

 

[Rocky]

Hi Ben and All,

I took the MTF moving average indicator above and wanted to do a scan for multi-time frames price above or below 50 EMAs. TOS is not letting me use the code as you created above. It is complaining that secondary aggregation period is not allowed if I use e.g plot pos_trend = BULLISH_TREND;.

If I just use another plot row just price, included in code below plot c = c2; it won't complain about secondary aggregation. There is no issue, if I use this code to plot on a chart. It is only complaining when I use it in stock hacker to scan.

 

[markos]

@Rocky My understanding is that secondary aggs are not allowed in the scanner when put in as code like you have.
There's a second way to create a scan that may work out. Please watch the 2 short videos in the Tutorial Section called How to Drive the Scanner. You might be better using the "wizard". I won't know until later tonight or Sunday.

By the way, that's pretty decent looking code but I think something is missing. I won't know until i can put in the editor. Markos

 

[horserider]

This has been available in ToS for SMA . And I think SMA is better but to each his own. Look for DailySMA in studies.

 

[Rocky]

Many Thanks for the feedback Markos and horserider, I'll check the videos you mentioned and SMA study in TOS again. TOS has many glitches in the scan process itself, it doesn't show all stocks meeting the criteria, almost every single day, sometimes even if I will just put price and volume as filters. I can make three separate study filters for the above and use in scanning, from my experience it is better to have all studies in one code rather than three separate codes. That's why this code. Otherwise, TOS will start skipping stocks in scan.

Horserider, I used to work with SMAs. After spending couple of months with SMAs, I decided to switch to EMAs for all averages. I need earlier confirmations in trend reversal even for bigger averages like 50, 100 & 200. You never know I may come back to SMAs, it's a vicious circle you know, LOL.

Have a great day guys!

 

[Piper2808t]

any way in a column to have if price is between ema200?

 

[markos]

any way in a column to have if price is between ema200?

@Piper2808t sure, do you mean above or below ?
What type of investing do you do & timeframe?

 

[markos]

Many Thanks for the feedback Markos and horserider, I'll check the videos you mentioned and SMA study in TOS again. TOS has many glitches in the scan process itself, it doesn't show all stocks meeting the criteria, almost every single day, sometimes even if I will just put price and volume as filters. I can make three separate study filters for the above and use in scanning, from my experience it is better to have all studies in one code rather than three separate codes. That's why this code. Otherwise, TOS will start skipping stocks in scan.

Horserider, I used to work with SMAs. After spending couple of months with SMAs, I decided to switch to EMAs for all averages. I need earlier confirmations in trend reversal even for bigger averages like 50, 100 & 200. You never know I may come back to SMAs, it's a vicious circle you know, LOL.

Have a great day guys!

@Rocky What are the other criteria? Price? Size?
I think if your intention is to scan in the S&P500 or Russel1000, you would have to write a custom code that looks different than than you already coded.
After having reviewed the videos and read a little, hopefully you'll come up with the answer.

 

[markos]

This bothered me so I wrote a 15 min, 1 hour, and 1 Day scan over 50 EMA. I did it custom until I realized it is Built In.
Give this a try...

 

[Piper2808t]

hi and low between the ema200 on a daily. i like to swing trade thanks

 

[horserider]

How do you get a high and a low between a 200 EMA ?

 

[markos]

@Piper2808t please think thru all of the things you would like, so we have all of the puzzle pieces.

1. How do you envision a 200Dema hepling with a swing trade?
2. What are you already using?
3. What would you like to see different?

If you want it in a watchlist column, that's the 4th entry from the top when you use the little gear to the right of the header. It's already customized to give you green when above and default red when below the EMA, That you can do on your own, right?

 

[Rocky]

@Rocky What are the other criteria? Price? Size?
I think if your intention is to scan in the S&P500 or Russel1000, you would have to write a custom code that looks different than than you already coded.
After having reviewed the videos and read a little, hopefully you'll come up with the answer.

Hello Markos,

Thanks for the quick follow up Markos. I'm on vacation so I would like to apologize for the delayed follow-up. I only want to use price (0.1 to 20$) and min volume (200k) as my default filters and scan all available stocks. This way I'll be able to use it for both day and swing trading penny and close to penny stocks. Then price above or below 50 EMA on 1 week, 1 day, 1 hr and possibly 15min but not mandatory.

I don't want to bombard TOS with tonns of conditions, it will fail to give all stocks I'm well familiar with that.

Regards,
Rocky

 

[Rocky]

This bothered me so I wrote a 15 min, 1 hour, and 1 Day scan over 50 EMA. I did it custom until I realized it is Built In.
Give this a try...

Hello Markos,

If I'll use scanning this way, all three conditions have to be met and then only stocks meeting all three criterion's will be displayed.

I'm keen on viewing all stocks fitting price and volume (0.1 to 20$ and 200k min volume) as minimum and then have respective columns for all showing what price is doing wrt 50EMA.

Will later use percent change to sort or volume to sort. I play both LONGs and SHORTs, so I can note down stock for watch later down the line or on daily watch, depending on chart and price action.

Regards,
Rocky

 

[Rocky]

Markos et al,

Aim is to use least number of criterion's (so as not to confuse TOS) and weekly analyze maybe 50-100 stocks for the coming week/month from the watchlist.

I've experienced tos dropping stocks even with just a min percentage filter +ve and -ve. So, I want to use least filters and rest just display on chart or watchlist in columns.

Regards,
Rocky

 

[Rocky]

hi and low between the ema200 on a daily. i like to swing trade thanks

Someone sounds like a fellow pilot?

 

[Trading51]

Can someone please add a feature to the MTF moving average when the average changes direction it changes color, like up blue and down red ? Thanks

 

[tradetollive]

hello, MTF is great but can you make it to look like this"

i'm a pattern trader, and is hard for me to see what pattern is in the chart with the MTF
now it looks like this

i want it to look like this

 

[BenTen]

@tradetollive Not possible because it’s coming from a higher timeframe with different values.

 

[horserider]

Maybe if you smooth the moving averages