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What is a moving average, you ask? Well, instead of looking at a jagged chart moving up and down you could choose to smooth out its price movements with a moving average. Therefore, a moving average is derived from the price of a stock over X number of market days.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Moving Average<\/h2>\n

Moving averages are technical indicators. Thus by definition of technical indicators, it is used to help evaluate the technical movements of a stock in order to predict future movements of the stock.<\/p>\n

By averaging out, and therefore smoothing out the movement of a stock price a moving average gives a cleaner view of the overall movement of a stock. The more days used to average out and smooth out a stock chart, the slower that moving average is to react to a stock current price fluctuations.<\/p>\n

The next two sections will highlight the two main types of moving averages. One being the\u00a0simple moving average<\/a>\u00a0and the other being the\u00a0exponential moving average<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moving Averages : Table of Contents<\/h3>\n
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  1. Introduction<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Simple Moving Averages<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Exponential Moving Averages<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. SMA vs. EMA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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