Crossing Moving Averages Strategy

Boy this is an easy one. Thanks. This strategy is already included with Thinkorswim. It is called “MovAvgTwoLinesStrat”. See screen shot showing how to locate it and a brief description.

As for trying to convert the study into a strategy. You said you tried and were not able to do it. If you want some help with that, just for the sake of learning, I would be very happy to assist. Just post your code representing your best attempt and I’ll debug it for you and explain where you went off course.

Otherwise, consider this a done deal. Don’t forget to up-vote any answers that best solve your question!

This is what I did but it doesn’t work

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# TD Ameritrade IP Company, Inc. (c) 2009-2017
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#wizard input: length1
#wizard text: -period
#wizard input: averageType1
#wizard text: crosses
#wizard input: crossingType
#wizard input: length2
#wizard text: -period
#wizard input: averageType2
#wizard text: Price:
#wizard input: price

input price = close;
input length1 = 15;
input length2 = 30;
input averageType1 = AverageType.Simple;
input averageType2 = AverageType.Simple;
input crossingType = {default above, below};

def avg1 = MovingAverage(averageType1, price, length1);
def avg2 = MovingAverage(averageType2, price, length2);

#deleted plot and added def to this line
def signal = crosses(avg1, avg2, crossingType == CrossingType.above);
def signaldown = crosses(avg1, avg2, crossingType == CrossingType.below);

#didnt think this stuff was necessary
#signal.DefineColor(“Below”, GetColor(7));
#signal.AssignValueColor(if crossingType == CrossingType.above then #signal.color(“Above”) else signal.color(“Below”));

#signal.SetPaintingStrategy(if crossingType == CrossingType.above
# then PaintingStrategy.BOOLEAN_ARROW_UP
# else PaintingStrategy.BOOLEAN_ARROW_DOWN);
addOrder(OrderType.BUY_AUTO, signal);
#added this line to sell
addOrder(OrderType.SELL_AUTO, signal);