Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...
A moving average is a technical indicator that combines price points of an instrument over a specified time frame, and divides by the number of data points, to give you a single trend line. It is ...
One of the most straightforward tools in an investor’s toolkit is the simple moving average (SMA). The SMA is a fundamental technical indicator that smooths out volatility from price data to help ...