Question: What do you guys mean by window?

[sdcoffey]

Question: What do you guys mean by window?

[sdcoffey]

Hey @Gauthamastro, good questions.

Window

window, for a moving average indicator like this one, allows you to specify the number of periods used in the moving average calculation. For example, a moving average using 10 periods would be more spiky than one with 200 periods. Check out the investopedia page on exponential moving average for more detail.

Index

index just lets you request the moving average at any point in the timeseries. If you want to know the lastest value in the moving average curve, you'd use the last index value. If you want to know the moving average value as of 10 periods ago, you might use len(ts.Candles) -10 as the index.

[Gauthamastro]

Hi @sdcoffey, Thanks for your reply.

Now it makes sense. I was confused about the index parameter.