TA_MAMA





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MESA Adaptive Moving Average : This function is contained within the Overlap Studies set of indicators.

Returns a 2-Column range.

outMAMA (Doubles).

outFAMA (Doubles).

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

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.



Note: Within Excel, the function is named - CT.TA.MAMA




High level graphic of TA_MAMA() function with parameters. Blue square node is the actual function with the parameters ordered.



Parameter Description


  1. Key parameter

    Key to an already created HistoricalDB object
  2. withHeaders parameter

    Display header information with the output range?
  3. withDates parameter

    Display the Dates column along with the output range?
  4. withData parameter

    Display the 'Open', 'High', 'Low', 'Close' and 'Volume' columns along with the output range?
  5. FieldName parameter

    The FieldName within the Historical DB that you wish to apply the analysis upon.
  6. Fast_Limit parameter

    Upper limit use in the adaptive algorithm (Default=0.5)
  7. Slow_Limit parameter

    Lower limit use in the adaptive algorithm (Default=0.05)


Extended information

Function Syntax

VB Syntax


Variant CT_TA_Overlap.TA_MAMA( _
String Key, _
Boolean withHeaders, _
Boolean withDates, _
Boolean withData, _
String FieldName, _
Double Fast_Limit, _
Double Slow_Limit)


Excel Spreadsheet Syntax


=CT.TA.MAMA(
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_Limit,
Excel Numeric Cell Slow_Limit)


C++ Syntax


static CTRangeDataCPP TA_MAMA(
std::string Key,
bool withHeaders,
bool withDates,
bool withData,
std::string FieldName,
double Fast_Limit,
double Slow_Limit);


DotNET Syntax


CTRangeData CT_TA_OverlapSA.TA_MAMA(
System.String Key,
System.Boolean withHeaders,
System.Boolean withDates,
System.Boolean withData,
System.String FieldName,
System.Double Fast_Limit,
System.Double Slow_Limit);

Parameter data types

ArgNameArgTypeIsKey
KeyStringTRUE
withHeadersBooleanFALSE
withDatesBooleanFALSE
withDataBooleanFALSE
FieldNameStringFALSE
Fast_LimitDoubleFALSE
Slow_LimitDoubleFALSE


Example Inputs

The first column represents the name of the parameters. The second column specifies whether the parameters are optional or not. Finally the last column provides some sample input data.
Function call input string-keys are always in the format : "NAME.EXTTAG.TICKER" The "EXTTAG.TICKER" part is determined from the output of other, capetools, object creation functions.


ArgNameIsOptional (Excel only)Example
KeyFALSEKeyNAME.EXTTAG.TICKER (from a function call)
withHeadersFALSEtrue
withDatesFALSEtrue
withDataFALSEtrue
FieldNameFALSEOpen
Fast_LimitTRUE0.5
Slow_LimitTRUE0.05


Example function usage


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.


If you are accessing this functrion via the MiniXL libraries, this function is present within the CT.QL.TechnicalAnalysis20 MiniXL Excel Addin.

Within our Excel Example Addin Generator, we have used the following QuantTools sub-functions in order to prepare the arguments needed to call the TA_MAMA() function. If you are executing this function via the MiniXL libraries, the module addin name, (in brackets, to the right of the sub-functions listed below), indicates the MiniXL library in which the sub-function is held. You will need to load this library into your Excel session (along with any other libraries that the sub-function call within the addin requires (ie - CT.QT.Utils20 addin in almost all cases) in order for the example to compute successfully.

These are the financial QuantTools sub-function calls that are used within the examples :





The objects generated by these sub-functions are inter-connected in the following way :




The following four examples demostrate calling this function within a Microsoft .NET environment

The following four examples demostrate calling this function within a non .NET environment

The following is a sample output from executing the TA_MAMA() function call


Example
DATEOPENHIGHLOWCLOSEVOLUMEMAMAFAMA
3774629.37529.562528.812529.31252357000
3774729.330229.331529.321729.32693092000
3774829.322629.329829.321729.32622524200
3774929.314929.342929.312629.32693584500
3775029.351929.359829.30629.309713000
3775329.347229.347629.341929.3434702400
3775429.347829.387929.321129.34462201900
3775529.351729.36529.323629.32551406500
3775629.353929.354829.28629.34242318500
3775729.324829.343929.3129.32221086200
3776029.311829.367529.287929.3108564900
3776129.327129.354229.290329.32751218800
3776229.343129.361729.287729.34122246200
3776329.344629.36729.306729.34573854000
3776429.378729.382629.374629.37942339500
3776729.36729.371229.365629.36962722600
3776829.3729.380829.351729.35462462400
3776929.383729.399229.328829.39062139200
3777029.432929.438229.421429.4318675400
3777129.422629.439829.407429.41251247400
3777429.443429.456329.373229.38263228000
3777529.347229.367129.338129.3481028100
3777629.391429.395629.389829.39163231800
3777729.404629.428129.40229.41281368500
3777829.420729.44729.409929.44321621700
3778129.413929.489729.394829.45891864000
3778229.464529.486829.428729.43013137800
3778329.469529.474629.469129.47313398700
3778429.500329.50529.48729.50391438600
3778529.50329.522929.472129.52091427400
3778829.508829.570529.491729.53023328900
3778929.532429.54329.507829.51741256000
3779029.521729.548829.510329.53882963329.471127.9807
3779129.545429.55129.526429.52732490729.474828.0181
3779229.517829.572229.483829.4943257529.476928.0546
3779529.476129.4829.475629.47842205529.476928.0901
3779629.443229.444629.44329.4441618829.460128.4326
3779729.443129.47529.437129.4403747229.459228.4583
3779829.466429.485829.465929.47573979129.459628.4833
3779929.517229.525229.515929.52051976629.462428.5078
3780229.489629.51429.479229.48542489729.47628.7498
3780329.532729.534129.525629.5295616829.478928.7681
3780429.563529.569929.545229.54893613229.483128.7859
3780529.543929.594529.531429.56772755529.486128.8034
3780629.550629.571929.545429.54741720629.518428.9822
3780929.516529.545829.512529.53723924729.518328.9956
3781029.541329.576129.536229.5595679229.519529.0097
3781129.580129.599729.542129.5918551829.522529.0225
3781229.622229.624929.613329.61651289729.527529.0352
3781329.616829.634429.600529.60462956829.53229.0476
3781629.584429.593329.578829.58631807429.534629.0598



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