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Xinhui
Obsidian | Level 7

Hello All

I'm trying to calculate rolling RSI (which is a financial indicate), I found this code, it should help me do the calculation. However, I'm very understand what is this piece of code doing. Would you please explain the code line by line, so that I can do the necessary changes to solve my case.  

 

%macro calRSI();

%do i=16 %to 7570;

data RSI;

set RSI;

lAveGain = lag1(AveGain);

lAveLoss = lag1(AveLoss);

if days = &i then do;

AveGain = (lAveGain*13+gain)/14;

AveLoss = (lAveLoss*13+loss)/14;

RS = AveGain / AveLoss;

RSI = 100-100/(1+RS); end;

%end; %mend;

%calRSI;

data summer.RSIresult;

set RSI;

run;

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PGStats
Opal | Level 21

This code is overwriting the same dataset 7555 times, each time calculating the RSI for only one value of days. It looks like a very very inefficient way to do this type of calculation. I would advise you NOT to do this.

 

Tell us instead about your available data and the calculation you want to perform, especially the details of the smoothed moving averages.

PG

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PGStats
Opal | Level 21

This code is overwriting the same dataset 7555 times, each time calculating the RSI for only one value of days. It looks like a very very inefficient way to do this type of calculation. I would advise you NOT to do this.

 

Tell us instead about your available data and the calculation you want to perform, especially the details of the smoothed moving averages.

PG
Xinhui
Obsidian | Level 7

Thank you for helping, I have used "proc expand" code solved the problem. Still thank you. 

PGStats
Opal | Level 21

Very wise choice. Congratulations!

PG

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