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	Moving average (finance) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		A moving average series can be calculated for any time series, but is most often applied to time series of stock (The amount of money needed to purchase something) prices, (A tennis stroke that returns the ball to the other player) returns or trading volumes.
		Moving averages are used to eliminate short-term fluctuations in time series and highlight long-term trends and cycles.
		A simple moving average is the unweighted (An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n) mean of the previous n data points in the time series.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/mo/moving_average_(finance).htm (446 words)

	Moving Average 1 Line Indicator \| Technical Indicators \| BCI Futures
		The Moving Average 1 Line Indicator is perhaps the most widely used technical indicator in existence.
		One moving average is often used to identify the trend of a market.
		Moving averages of all types can also be used as a filter within a trading system in order to reduce "whipsaws." For example, you may only want to take long trades when the average is moving in an upward direction, or when price is above the moving average.
	tradefutures.cc /TechnicalIndicators/MovingAverage1LineIndicator.asp (284 words)

	Technical Studies - Moving Average (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Moving Averages are one of the most popular and easy to use tools available to the technical analyst.
		A moving average (MA) is an average of data for a certain number of time periods.
		A moving average moves because as the newest period is added, the oldest period is dropped.
	www.forex-markets.com /moving_average.htm (624 words)

	Moving Averages
		Moving average may be used as a trend indicator and to identify support and resistance levels.
		This moving average is sometime referred to as a moving linear regression study or a regression oscillator.
		Wit a triangular moving average the majority of the weight is assigned to the middle portion of the data.
	www.elliottwaves.biz /moving_averages.htm (1759 words)

	Program Options -Moving Average Lines
		The moving average, or simple moving average as it is commonly referred to as, represents the average of the last several closing prices.
		The most common way of determining the moving average of a market is to take the closing price over a certain number of days add them together and then divide by the select number of days.
		The use of the triple moving average is to buy when all three averages move to be in an upward trend or to sell when these averages are in a downtrend.
	help.geckosoftware.com /30manual/options/ma_options.htm (935 words)

	Moving_Average (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The longer the length of the moving average, the slower it reacts to the market and, conversely, the shorter the moving average, the more sensitive the moving average will be to a price change.
		It combines two moving averages, which have slight variations, and says that trend reversal is not complete unless both the moving averages are crossed.
		Both moving averages will have a “Length” set to “6” and the “Offset” set to “4.” The difference between the two moving averages will be to set one moving average “Source” to “High” and change the color to “Blue;” the other set the “Source” to “Low” and make “Red” the color.
	scanner.esignal.com /help/moving_average.html (362 words)

	Moving Average
		Moving Averages are also used to generate buy or sell signals when prices cross over the moving average or when one moving average crooses over another moving average.
		Moving averages fall into different categories depending on the type of filtering that is used.
		With a simple moving average, a past price can have a large impact when it is dropped from the moving average at the end of the moving average period.
	www.mindxpansion.com /options/moving-average.html (747 words)

	Moving Averages at Trade10.com- The science of trading market momentum for stocks, options, futures and bonds.
		A longer 50 day moving average is smoothed more than an 18 day moving average with each new day's data making less impact on the calculation of the moving average value than a shorter term moving average such as the 18 day moving average.
		Since a moving average is a lagging indicator of price trend, there is a trade off between timeliness of a signal of bias change in the price trend being analyzed and the reduction of the possibility of whipsaw.
		Moving averages can also be used on indicators such as the Stochastic, Relative Strength Index and the Rate of Change in order to smooth daily fluctuations and reduce potential whipsaws.
	www.trade10.com /Moving_Average.html (1435 words)

	Incredible Charts: Moving Average Systems
		The slow moving average should be varied according to the cycle you intend to trade (see Indicator Time Frames for details).
		Exponential moving averages are more responsive and not prone to "bark twice" as with simple moving averages.
		Use the slow moving average as a directional filter: only go long if the Moving Average is rising.
	www.incrediblecharts.com /technical/moving_average_systems.htm (373 words)

	Moving Averages - ChartSchool - StockCharts.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		The averaging process then moves on to the next day where the 10-day SMA for day 12 is calculated by adding the prices of day 3 through day 12 and dividing by 10.
		For the first period's exponential moving average, the simple moving average was used as the previous period's exponential moving average (yellow highlight for the 10th period).
		The average absolute difference between the exponential moving average and the current price was 1 and the simple moving average had an average absolute difference of 1.33.
	stockcharts.com /education/IndicatorAnalysis/indic_movingAvg.html (1638 words)

	6.4.2.2. Centered Moving Average
		We could have placed the average in the middle of the time interval of three periods, that is, next to period 2.
		Unfortunately, neither the mean of all data nor the moving average of the most recent M values, when used as forecasts for the next period, are able to cope with a significant trend.
		As soon as both single and double moving averages are available, a computer routine uses these averages to compute a slope and intercept, and then forecasts one or more periods ahead.
	www.itl.nist.gov /div898/handbook/pmc/section4/pmc422.htm (264 words)

	Using Moving Averages to Effectively Analyze Trends, G91-1055-A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		This means that using a shorter moving average may signal a producer or trader to enter or exit the market sooner, but you run a greater risk of false signals.
		The moving average is a follower and is not designed to catch the beginning or end of a move.
		The moving average will never be 100 percent correct, and will nearly always be out of phase with the market in choppy, sideways markets where there is a great deal of price fluctuation.
	ianrpubs.unl.edu /FarmMgt/g1055.htm (1175 words)

	moving average Definition
		A technical analysis term meaning the average price of a security over a specified time period (the most common being 20, 30, 50, 100 and 200 days), used in order to spot pricing trends by flattening out large fluctuations.
		Moving average data is used to create charts that show whether a stock's price is trending up or down.
		Each new day's (or week's or month's) numbers are added to the average and the oldest numbers are dropped; thus, the average "moves" over time.
	www.investorwords.com /3150/moving_average.html (279 words)

	Interactive Charts - Moving Average (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		Moving Average is generally used to identify or confirm a trend, and works best in trending markets.
		Moving Averages are one of the most commonly used technical tools.
		A Moving Average may be displayed as a normal crossover trading system when you select up to three different averages.
	developer.futuresource.com /imaf/ma.htm (288 words)

	MSN Money - Crossed Above 50-Day Moving Average Glossary Definition: Investor
		Moving averages plot the average price of a stock over a period of time.
		To calculate a short-term moving average for a stock, we simply add up its closing price for the past 50 market days and divide by 50.
		Market observers who believe that they can foretell the future of a stock from its past price movement are called "technical analysts" or "technicians." They believe that the 50- and 200-day moving averages form lines of "resistance" that are difficult for a stock to penetrate on the way up.
	moneycentral.msn.com /investor/alerts/glossary.asp?TermID=32 (400 words)

	Moving Averages: simple, linearly weighted, exponential and variable - Technical Analysis
		The Moving Average (MA) is one of the simplest, yet most versatile and widely used of all technical indicators.
		Moving averages are helpful in keeping you in line with the price trend by providing buy signals shortly after the market bottoms out and sell signals shortly after it tops, rather than trying to catch the exact bottom or top.
		Moving averages can also be calculated and plotted for other indicators, not just the price.
	www.chartfilter.com /reports/c27.htm (1142 words)

	StockMarketStudio - technical analysis and stock market forecast
		A simple moving average is calculated by adding the prices over a given number of periods, then dividing the sum by the number of periods.
		Moving averages are very flexible, and can be incorporated into most trading and investment philosophies.
		Moving averages can be used to evaluate trends in both the short-term and long term.
	stockmarketstudio.com /msm/Education/Indicator_MA.asp (578 words)

	Exponential Moving Average
		Also, in a Simple Moving Average, the oldest price data are removed from the Moving Average as a new price is added to the computation.
		The Exponential Moving Average assigns a weight to the price data as the average is calculated.
		Thus, the oldest price data in the Exponential Moving Average are never removed, but they have only a minimal impact on the Moving Average.
	www.turbofeed.com /futuresource/workstation/help/charts/studies/emi.htm (557 words)

	Moving Average (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		This is a moving average crossover study, which displays averages based on three intervals of your choice.
		The user-defined parameters are the three moving average intervals, defined as the 1st Period, 2nd Period and 3rd Period, respectively.
		A rising moving average is associated with a rising market and a falling moving average is associated with a falling market.
	www.csidata.com /custserv/onlinehelp/OnlineManual/movingaverage.htm (306 words)

	Moving average
		For the moving average (MA) charts, the moving average for the ith isolate with a “window” of size w (varied in different test conditions), Y w,i, is
		This is known as a moving average because the average at each k'th instant is based on the most recent set of n values.
		Moving Average Moving averages are calculated as the arithmetic average from a certain number of historic prices.
	currency-trading.allworldsites.com /q/currency-trading-moving-average.htm (964 words)

	Simple and Exponential Moving Average
		Perhaps the most basic and understandable of indicators is the Moving Average, commonly referred to as the MA, but also called the DMA for daily moving average, and the SMA for simple moving average.
		Normally a moving average is a "lagging" indicator meaning its always reacting to the data, not projecting it.
		While we may search for the holy grail of moving averages, the perfect length and interval that gives outstanding results, different markets and industries have different cycles and different seasons, and so from the research I have done there seems to be no perfect length.
	www.erlanger2000.com /Simple_and_Exponential_Moving_Average.htm (900 words)

	A Primer on the 200-Day Moving Average
		Most of the time when I read or hear about the 200-day moving average people are talking about the entry -- or the crossover of the average -- but never the exit, so it was hard to formulate a successful trading strategy.
		Results were marginal: an average return of 0.62% per trade with the following yearly returns demonstrating that you would've survived the worst of the bear market but still taken a big hit in 2002.
		In general, although conceptually it does seem bullish when the indices cross their 200-day moving averages, it does not seem like there is a worthwhile trading strategy that results.
	www.thestreet.com /pf/markets/jamesaltucher/10089493.html (1406 words)

	Moving Average Analysis of APWR
		Techniques available include moving weighted or exponential averages of various periods and the family of MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) indicators.
		The unsophisticated moving averages plotted here are unweighted, but they still may return better results than many of the more popular, highly tuned averages seen in some of the following sections.
		The un-sophisticated moving averages plotted here are un-weighted, but they still may return better results than many of the more popular, highly tuned averages seen in some of the following sections.
	www.stock-predictions.com /moving-average/APWR.aspx (1024 words)

	Moving Average (Exponential Support)
		This version of the exponential moving average is used to support the common functionality between Moving Average (Exponential Bars) and Moving Average (Exponential Percent).
		An exponential moving average is calculated by combining a certain percentage of the current value with an inverse percentage of the previous value of the exponential moving average.
		Since moving averages can be used to see trends, they can also be used to see whether data is bucking the trend.
	www.tradingsolutions.com /functions/MovingAverage(ExponentialSupport).html (315 words)

	Moving Average
		The moving average is calculated by averaging together the previous values over the given period, including the current value.
		The moving average at the beginning of a data series is not defined until there are enough values to fill the given period.
		Moving averages are useful for smoothing noisy raw data, such as daily prices.
	www.tradingsolutions.com /functions/MovingAverage.html (304 words)

	Data Acquisition Moving Average Analysis Software
		The moving average is a simple mathematical technique used primarily to eliminate aberrations and reveal the real trend in a collection of data points.
		You might not know that the moving average is also a prototype of the finite impulse response filter, the most common type of filter used in computer-based instrumentation.
		In cases where a given waveform is cluttered with noise, the moving average filter may be applied to suppress the noise and yield a clearer picture of the waveform.
	www.dataq.com /applicat/articles/an14.htm (1530 words)

	Forecasting by Smoothing
		Thus, for example, an exponenentially weighted moving average with a smoothing constant equal to 0.1 would correspond roughly to a 19 day moving average.
		And a 40-day simple moving average would correspond roughly to an exponentially weighted moving average with a smoothing constant equal to 0.04878.
		Notice that the simple moving average is special case of the exponential smoothing by setting the period of the moving average to the integer part of (2-Alpha)/Alpha.
	home.ubalt.edu /ntsbarsh/Business-stat/otherapplets/ForecaSmo.htm (779 words)

	Moving Average Filter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-15)
		from a higher frequency signal; a moving average filter may be applied to achieve the...
		The Moving Average Line Indicator is perhaps the most widely used technical indicator in existence.
		Moving Averages used with a Range Signal Filter can greatly increase their accuracy.
	www.day-trading.online-investing-web.info /day-trading/moving-average-filter.html (429 words)

	Moving Average Envelope
		A moving average band, or envelope, forms a channel or zone of commitment around a moving average.
		The moving average in a moving average envelope can be calculated using any of the moving averages.
		The Moving Average Envelope overlay is a member of the "envelope" class of studies.
	www.aspenres.com /Documents/AspenGraphics4.0/Moving_Average_Envelope.htm (272 words)

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