Hi Forum,
I am stuck on a problem with a formula.I am wanting to summarize an RSI chart into a cell by highlighting it Green for a rising RSI from 30 to 70 and when it falls below 70 to 30 the cell turns red. My problem is that the formula has to know when it reaches above 70 and accordingly realise that if it goes to lets say 51 it is going down and not up.
Any questions or ideas will be greatly received
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More explanation needed. It sounds like you want Excel to "remember" a previous value in a cell and compare it with the current value and then format accordingly. You cannot do that using formulae.
Will you please attach a SMALL sample Excel workbook (10-20 rows of data is usually enough)? Please don't attach a picture of one (no-one will want to re-type all your stuff before starting).
1. Make sure that your sample data are truly REPRESENTATIVE of your real data. The use of unrepresentative data is very frustrating and can lead to long delays in reaching a solution.
2. Make sure that your desired solution is also shown (mock up the results manually).
3. Make sure that all confidential information is removed first!!
4. Try to avoid using merged cells. They cause lots of problems!
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Hi, Thanks for your reply,
I have submitted an attachment.RSI = Relative strength Inex
I would like cell D248 to have either the word "good" if trend is going upward above 30, or "Bad" if trend is below 70
Any ideas?
Many Thanks Rob
See if this is helpful.
1) Populate cell AE48 using: =INDEX(Y3:Y100,COUNT(Y3:Y100))
2) Populate cell AF48 using: =INDEX(Y3:Y100,COUNT(Y3:Y100)-1)
3) Populate cell AD48 using: =IF(AE48< AF48,"Bad",IF(AND(AE48>AF48,AE48>=30),"Good",""))
I am leaving the last option blank as I don't know what you would want the cell to display in the event that the trend was rising but the last value was not 30 or above, nor in the case where the last two values are the same.
Let us know if you have any questions.
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Hi JeteMc,
Thank you for your reply.I have tried the formula but seem to be only getting "Good" in cell AD48 when it should read "Bad" 0n last enties into
Y1:Y100
Any thoughts
regards Rob
Either the formula to find the next to the last value in the column =INDEX(Y3:Y100,COUNT(Y3:Y100)-1) needs to be in AF48 or
the formula for displaying 'Good' and 'Bad' needs to be changed so that it takes the value from AG48 as in =IF(AE48<AG48,"Bad",IF(AND(AE48>AG48,AE48>=30),"Good",""))
To go further down the column than Y100 you will need to change the range of the formulas in AE48 and AF48 to something like Y3:Y1000.
For the longer term it may be worthwhile to change the data ranges into a table.
Let us know if you have any questions.
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