public static Series DStochastic( 
   string seriesName,
   Series s,
   int noOfPeriods,
   int method,
   int lengthOfMA
)

'Declaration
 
Public Overloads Shared Function DStochastic( _
   ByVal seriesName As String, _
   ByVal s As Series, _
   ByVal noOfPeriods As Integer, _
   ByVal method As Integer, _
   ByVal lengthOfMA As Integer _
) As Series

'Usage
 
Dim seriesName As String
Dim s As Series
Dim noOfPeriods As Integer
Dim method As Integer
Dim lengthOfMA As Integer
Dim value As Series
 
value = FinancialEngine.DStochastic(seriesName, s, noOfPeriods, method, lengthOfMA)

Parameters

seriesName

The name of the series which will be displayed on the chart, i.e. its label.

s

An financial series where the first element is the closing price in the last trading period, the second term is the closing price in the previous trading period and so on.

noOfPeriods

An integer which represents the number of periods used over which the closing price is compared.

method

Determines the methods used for the evaluation of the moving average in accordance with the following key:

1. 1 = Simple moving average
2. 2 = Geometric moving average
3. 3 = Linearly weighted moving average
4. 4 = Exponentially Weighted Moving average within smoothing fact set to be 0.5.

For further details concerning the definition of these moving averages please see the accompanying PDF documentation or the API documentation for SimpleMovingAverage(String,Series,ElementValue,Int32).

lengthOfMA

The number of periods over which the moving average is considered.

As one would expect the Moving Average %D of the %K Stochastic depends on:

• %D Periods - The number of periods over which the moving average is evaluated.
• MA Method - This is the method by which the moving average of the Stochastic %K is evaluated. We offer a range of methods for the evaluation of the moving average, these include: simple, exponential, geometric, weighted, linearly weighted and exponentially weighted.

Remark When the simple moving average is used and it is evaluated over 3-days, then the %D Stochastic reduces to what is known as the slow %K Stochastic.

Target Platforms: Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 or later, Windows XP SP3, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core supported with SP1 or later), Windows Server 2003 SP2

Reference

FinancialEngine Class
FinancialEngine Members
Overload List