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wrong MACD formulas and example expression in docs (double division by CLOSE) #2036

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Hi Qlib team,
In the page Building Formulaic Alphas(https://github.com/microsoft/qlib/blob/main/docs/advanced/alpha.rst), DIF is defined as
DIF = (EMA(CLOSE, 12) - EMA(CLOSE, 26)) / CLOSE
and DEA is defined as
DEA = EMA(DIF, 9) / CLOSE.
The example expression also computes EMA(...)/$close again. This makes DIF (dimensionless) and DEA (1/price) inconsistent. DEA should be EMA(DIF, 9) (no extra division). A corrected example expression is:

(EMA($close,12) - EMA($close,26)) / $close

  • EMA((EMA($close,12) - EMA($close,26)) / $close, 9)

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