Momentum.Lowest Method

Returns the lowest value of all prices within a given look back period.

public double Lowest(
double[] prices,
int noOfPeriods
);

Parameters

prices: An array of length equal to the number of periods considered in the indicator evaluation where the first element is the price in the last trading period, the second term is the price in the previous trading period and so on.
noOfPeriods: The number of previous periods over which the lowest value is found (i.e. look back period).

Return Value

The lowest value of the specified (look back) period.

Remarks

Example

We illustrate the application of this method with the following example. If the prices over the past five periods are: { 102, 101, 100, 103, 102 }, and the look back period has 3 periods, then the value of the lowest value is 100, which is the highest value within { 101, 100, 103, 102 }.

Exceptions

Exception Type	Condition
ArgumentException	Thrown if prices array has strictly negative elements or if the noOfPeriods argument is greater then the length of prices array.

Momentum.Lowest Method

Parameters

Return Value

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Example

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