Average Price

Technical Analysis Indicator: avgprice

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Function Prototype

/* Average Price */
/* Type: overlay */
/* Input arrays: 4    Options: 0    Output arrays: 1 */
/* Inputs: open, high, low, close */
/* Options: none */
/* Outputs: avgprice */
int ti_avgprice_start(TI_REAL const *options);
int ti_avgprice(int size,
      TI_REAL const *const *inputs,
      TI_REAL const *options,
      TI_REAL *const *outputs);

Description

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The average price indicator calculates the mean of the open, high, low, and close of a bar.

$$avgprice_{t} = \frac{open_{t}+high_{t}+low_{t}+close_{t}}{4}$$

See Also

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Example Usage

Calling From C

/* Example usage of Average Price */
/* Assuming that 'open', 'high', 'low', and 'close' are pre-loaded arrays of size 'in_size'. */
TI_REAL *inputs[] = {open, high, low, close};
TI_REAL options[] = {}; /* No options */
TI_REAL *outputs[1]; /* avgprice */

/* Determine how large the output size is for our options. */
const int out_size = in_size - ti_avgprice_start(options);

/* Allocate memory for output. */
outputs[0] = malloc(sizeof(TI_REAL) * out_size); assert(outputs[0] != 0); /* avgprice */

/* Run the actual calculation. */
const int ret = ti_avgprice(in_size, inputs, options, outputs);
assert(ret == TI_OKAY);

Calling From Lua (with Tulip Chart bindings)

-- Example usage of Average Price
avgprice = ti.avgprice(open, high, low, close)

Example Calculation

dateopenhighlowcloseavgprice
2005-11-0181.8582.1581.2981.5981.72
2005-11-0281.2081.8980.6481.0681.20
2005-11-0381.5583.0381.3182.8782.19
2005-11-0482.9183.3082.6583.0082.97
2005-11-0783.1083.8583.0783.6183.41
2005-11-0883.4183.9083.1183.1583.39
2005-11-0982.7183.3382.4982.8482.84
2005-11-1082.7084.3082.3083.9983.32
2005-11-1184.2084.8484.1584.5584.44
2005-11-1484.2585.0084.1184.3684.43
2005-11-1584.0385.9084.0385.5384.87
2005-11-1685.4586.5885.3986.5485.99
2005-11-1786.1886.9885.7686.8986.45
2005-11-1888.0088.0087.1787.7787.74
2005-11-2187.6087.8787.0187.2987.44

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