Technical indicators

Moving average (MA)

The average price over a rolling window, smoothing noise to show the trend.

A moving average is the average closing price over a rolling window of N periods, redrawn each period, which smooths short-term noise into a trend line. A simple MA (SMA) weights all periods equally; an exponential MA (EMA) weights recent prices more. A shorter MA crossing a longer one is a common trend cue.

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