ema¶
Exponential moving average
x ema y ema[x;y]Where
yis a numeric listxis a numeric atom or list of lengthcount y
returns the exponentially-weighted moving averages (EWMA, also known as exponential moving average , EMA) of y, with x as the smoothing parameter.
ema is a uniform function.
Example: An impulse response with decay of ⅓.
q)ema[1%3;1,10#0]
1 0.6666667 0.4444444 0.2962963 0.1975309 0.1316872 0.0877915 0.05852766 0.03901844 0.02601229 0.01734153Example: 10-day EMA on price, as at stockcharts.com. Smoothing parameter for EMA over \(N\) points is defined as \(\frac{2}{1+N}\).
q)p:22.27 22.19 22.08 22.17 22.18 22.13 22.23 22.43 22.24 22.29 22.15 22.39 22.38 22.61 23.36 24.05 23.75 23.83 23.95 23.63 23.82 23.87 23.65 23.19 23.1 23.33 22.68 23.1 22.4 22.17
q)(2%1+10)ema p
22.27 22.25545 22.22355 22.21382 22.20767 22.19355 22.20017 22.24196 22.2416 22.2504 22.23215 22.26085 22.28251 22.34206 22.52714 22.80402 22.97602 23.13129 23.28014 23.34375 23.43034 23.51028 23.53568 23.47283 23.40505 23.3914 23.26206 23.23259 23.08121 22.91554