MACD, CCI Source Legal Values?

[Hexteque]

I am attempting to use the built-in studies CCI and MACD.

Both have an optional parameter named source which allows you to specify where the study is getting its data (ie For CCI: HLC/3 or close, or open, etc). The default is always close.

What values does source accept? If I want to run the CCI built-in study with the source as HLC/3 instead of close what do I change and where do I find the list of allowed values?

Thanks in advance.

[eSignal_JasonK]

Hello Hexteque,

In the Function Reference folder of the EFS KnowledgeBase you will find two folders, Built-in Study Functions and Series Functions. Any of these functions create a Series, which can be used as the source for CCI and MACD.

To use HLC/3 (hlc3()) as the source for the CCI, you could use the following syntax.

cci(12, hlc3());

Here's a basic formula example.

var xCCI = null;

function main() {
    if (xCCI == null) {  // initialize only once at start up
        xCCI = cci(12, hlc3());
    }
    
    var nCCI = xCCI.getValue(0);  // assign current value of cci to nCCI
    if (nCCI == null) return;
    
    return nCCI;  // plots the current bar value of cci study
}