Moving Averages

Dual Simple Moving Average

The most popular moving average systems use two moving averages. These generally consist of a longer-term average that serves to define the trend, and a shorter-term average that gives trading signals as it crosses the longer-term average. Read more...

Adapting Moving Average Kaufmann

KAMA is an adaptive moving average which moves very slowly when markets are moving sideways but moves swiftly when the markets also move swiftly, change directions or break out of a trading range. Read more...

Simple Moving Average

A simple moving average is the unweighted mean of the previous number of data points. Read more...

Moving Average Exponential

A Simple moving Average can lag to an undesirable extent, and can be disproportionately influenced by old data points dropping out of the average. An Exponential Moving Average addresses this by giving extra weight to more recent data points. Read more...

Modified Exponential Moving Average

The Modified Exponential Moving Average is very similar to the standard exponential moving average and differs only in the manner in which the smoothing factor is calculated. Read more...

Modified Moving Average

MMA (The Modified Moving Average) is an algebraic tool which makes averages more amenable to price shifts. Read more...

Weighted Moving Average

The Weighted Moving Average WMA is measured by averaging all the previous values over the given period, (also the ongoing value). These values are weighted linearly (the oldest value gets a weight of 1, the next value gets a weight of 2, and so on up to the ongoing value, which gets the same weight as the period). Read more...