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AveragePrice(String,Series) Method
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dotnetCHARTING Namespace > FinancialEngine Class > AveragePrice Method : AveragePrice(String,Series) Method


seriesName
The name of the series which will be displayed on the chart, i.e. its label.
s
A financial series, where the first element is the traded price on the most recent period, the second element is the traded price of the previous periods and so on, for the asset under consideration.
Evaluates the Average Price for each periods of a collection of periods.

Syntax

Visual Basic (Declaration) 
Public Overloads Shared Function AveragePrice( _
   ByVal seriesName As String, _
   ByVal s As Series _
) As Series
Visual Basic (Usage)Copy Code
Dim seriesName As String
Dim s As Series
Dim value As Series
 
value = FinancialEngine.AveragePrice(seriesName, s)
C# 
public static Series AveragePrice( 
   string seriesName,
   Series s
)

Parameters

seriesName
The name of the series which will be displayed on the chart, i.e. its label.
s
A financial series, where the first element is the traded price on the most recent period, the second element is the traded price of the previous periods and so on, for the asset under consideration.

Return Value

A series where the first element is the Average Price of the asset on the most recent period considered, the second term is the Average Price on the period before that and so on.

Exceptions

ExceptionDescription
ArgumentExceptionThrown if the High, Low, Open, Close are strictly negative.

Remarks

The Average price is just the average of the High, Low, Open and Close of each of the trading periods ranges, where the period considered will generally a day, however the Average price is equally applicable to other time spans and hence the period considered could be (for example) a month or year.

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