A moving average is a popular technical analysis tool used to reflect trends in the stock market and individual equities. Option traders use moving averages to determine which direction an equity’s ...

J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Samantha (Sam ...

Moving averages are technical indicators used by investors in the stock market. A moving average (MA) represents the sum of the closing prices of a security over a specific number of periods divided ...

What Is A Moving Average? Moving averages are important in many time series data applications. The study of moving averages is part of the academic disciplines of statistics and mathematics.

MACD uses two EMAs to signal buy or sell based on stock momentum. Buy when the MACD line crosses above the signal line and sell below it. Use MACD with other indicators to improve trade accuracy in ...

Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

Disclosure: I have no positions in Disney, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Nike or UnitedHealth. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended last week on July 2 with a close of 17,730.11, below its 50-day ...

The 200-day moving average strategy has increased risk-adjusted returns since 1951, but underperforms the S&P 500 on a price return basis. In this article, I show that the 225-day moving average ...