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Setting my first Pine steps and making all the basic errors.. appreciate help!

Purpose: trying to determine how close moving average 20 is to moving average 200
Thought: division of both should be close to 1.
However, the below calculation is true for all values?
Similar also for if I use 1 condition.

Looks like an issue with floats vs integer or rounding?

float ma1 = ta.sma(close, 20)
float ma2 = ta.sma(close, 200)
float xRatio = ma2/ma1
xUp = xRatio>0.8 and xRatio<1.2
plotchar(xUp, "xUp", "▲", location.top, size = size.tiny)

Hi there,

What you have coded looks to be working correctly.

I think the ratio limits you have chosen are far too wide (20%)?

Try changing these limits to only 2% away (ie. xUp = xRatio>0.98 and xRatio<1.02)

See how this goes

Hey, as @chooka pointed out , your code is working correctly. You do see it as true when the sma are close to each other. If you do a 1 Day chart and zoom out, you will see it is not true at all points, but only when sma get close together.

Perhaps what you are trying to do is , mark only when one crosses the other and nothing else. If so you can try using this will only print the arrow when it first encounters the change in ratio and than stop printing till next swing