Moving Average Convergence/Divergence : This function is contained within the Momentum Indicators set of indicators.

Returns a 3-Column range.

outMACD (Doubles).

outMACDSignal (Doubles).

outMACDHist (Doubles).

(Reference - http://www.tadoc.org, http://www.ta-lib.org).

The Fast_Period and Slow_Period parameters determines the number of data points that the function will conduct it's analysis upon before moving on.

Thus if the value of the Fast_Period or Slow_Period parameter is 30, the first 30 points will be read, the analysis performed, then the 1st point is dropped and the 31st point added, analysis performed once again, then the 2nd point dropped and the 32nd point added, analysis performed etc... Both the Fast_Period and Slow_Period parameters act as sliding windows, where the window size determines the amount of data that the analysis will be conducted upon.

This function requires the input of a Technical Analysis memory data table object key, which must have been produced via a call to MakeHistoricalDB(). This function would have returned a string 'KEY' which is to be passed to the 'Key' parameter of this function.

Variant CT_TA_MomInd.TA_MACD( _
String Key, _
Boolean withHeaders, _
Boolean withDates, _
Boolean withData, _
String FieldName, _
Long Fast_Period, _
Long Slow_Period, _
Long Signal_Period)

=CT.TA.MACD(
Excel String Cell Key,
Excel Boolean Value Cell withHeaders,
Excel Boolean Value Cell withDates,
Excel Boolean Value Cell withData,
Excel String Cell FieldName,
Excel Numeric Cell Fast_Period,
Excel Numeric Cell Slow_Period,
Excel Numeric Cell Signal_Period)

static CTRangeDataCPP TA_MACD(
std::string Key,
bool withHeaders,
bool withDates,
bool withData,
std::string FieldName,
long Fast_Period,
long Slow_Period,
long Signal_Period);

CTRangeData CT_TA_MomIndSA.TA_MACD(
System.String Key,
System.Boolean withHeaders,
System.Boolean withDates,
System.Boolean withData,
System.String FieldName,
System.Int32 Fast_Period,
System.Int32 Slow_Period,
System.Int32 Signal_Period);

The C# example below contains all the sub-function calls leading up to this function call. As a result, the example can contain a lot of code.

The VB.NET, J#, C++.NET, Java, Excel VBA, Visual Basic 6 (via COM) and C++ examples below contain function code stubs for the calls leading up to this function call. However, the function call for this function is displayed.
You can easily reproduce the stub functions code from the C# example.