AveragePrice(String,Series) Method

Evaluates the Average Price for each periods of a collection of periods.

[Visual Basic]
Overloads Public Shared Function AveragePrice( _
   ByVal seriesName As String, _
   ByVal s As Series _
) As Series

[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 Type

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

Exception	Description
ArgumentException	Thrown 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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