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[Sexton O Blake]

Crossing SMA

I am interested on how one might scan for stocks in which the close is at or near a SMA value (say 50d moving average).

The basic engine allows you to enter "X" to denote "crossing".

Advanced shows the following:
[daily sma(50,daily close) crosses daily close]

I ran this and it came up with stocks in which the range of the day crossed the SMA,50. (e.g. AAI). Crossing is not exactly what I am looking for.

Looking for two cases:
1) Where the CLOSE is within 50 cents - either ABOVE or BELOW the SMA,50.

(so if the SMA,50 is $20.00 - show me where the close is between $19.50 and $20.50)

2) Where the CLOSE is:
a) between X and Y "above" the SMA,50
ie Where the daily close is between 0 and 50 ABOVE the close

or
b) Between X and Y "below" the SMA,50
ie where the daily close is between 0 and 50 BELOW the close

I know the engine can't do high end math and the school doesn't seem to elaborate on these kinds of examples.

I am not interested where the stock traveled during the day.

Thanks in advance all!
blake

PS: I am unable to search the forum so I apologize if this has been posted already.