Moving Average (MA)

Moving averages (Moving Average), are the most frequently used indicators of technical analysis. The well-known adage states that: «At the moving average traders earn hundreds of times more money than all the other indicators together».

On the schedule moving averages are the following:


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Moving averages vary the method of averaging.
Simple Moving Average - simple moving average
Exponential Moving Average - exponential moving average
Smoothed Moving Average - smooth moving average
Linear Weighted Moving Average - linear-weighted moving average

* Moving average. R - averaged value.



* Weighted Average (Weighted Moving Average)
P1, P2, P3 - averaged values



* Exponential Average (Exponential Moving Average)
P1, P2, P3 - averaged values



Moving average smooths fluctuations in the study of currency, with an average of a certain historical period. The advantage of this technical indicator is the ability to visually cut off the small fluctuations, and clearly see the direction of movement.

The disadvantage of moving averages is the average lag in relation to the rate of the study variables. It follows that the larger the averaging period, the more important signals they give, but at the same time, and more late. The value of the moving average - that it gives the general direction of motion. Moving averages, as sotsopros crowd, where will the price. If they rise, the expectations of a good crowd. Fall, respectively, bad.

Systems based on moving averages

The most simple system, based on the moving average, buy it while it's growing and selling, as it decays.

Plus Strategy: simplicity.

Less: Due to the delay of one bar, spike, making this strategy maloprimenimoy.


The interaction of price and AI

The most famous of these strategies is as follows:
Buy when the MA increases and the closing price is higher than MA;
Sell when the price closing below the MA;
Sell when the MA is reduced, and prices closed below MA;
Cover the sale, when prices closed above MA.


This strategy gives the money, although it is rarely used, because there is much more efficient system.

The intersection of the middle

Buy when the price crosses the average upward. Sell when the price crosses the average down.

Perhaps the oldest of the currently used strategies. Nevertheless, we have sold tens (if not hundreds) of traders, who successfully apply this simple strategy.


In this strategy there is only one negative: it is usually to add a «Filter volatility». Say, do not sell it when the RSI is near zero. And also, it is not applicable to trade in nizkovolatilnye (holiday) days and at night.

For beginners this is probably the best strategy. Suppose you do not earn money on it, all the world, but through it you can feel the taste of money in the market Forex!

Trading Using The Moving Average Only

Read price charts with moving averages like to cook a pie without butter or eggs. These simple lines above or below the current price may be much to tell, and their use in interpreting the market is truly unprecedented. Simply put, they are the most valuable indicators in technical analysis.

You can trade without moving averages, but in doing so, you are very much at risk. Eventually, these lines represent median levels, where market players are taking an important decision to buy or sell. Therefore, it is reasonable to predict that they are going to do before, not after.

The following is the 15 principles that you can use when trading in the moving averages:

1. 20-day Moving Average is usually short-term notes the trend, the 50-Day Moving Average - the medium-term trend, a 200-day Moving Average is an indicator of long-term market trend.

2. These three Moving averages are a natural boundary for the price correction. Two arguments speak in favor of these values: First, they opredeyayut levels, where the withdrawal of profits and losses should be the adoption of collapse after the strong price movement. Second, they encourage the general acceptance of market players to make self-realization of this strategy, whenever the price is close to those levels.

3. Moving averages submit false signals when the side of trade, because they are indicators, following the trend, which is measured upstream or downstream momentum. They are losing their effectiveness in the markets showing little or no movement in prices.

4. Characteristics of moving averages changes as soon as they are smoothed and turns. Turn of the rolling average of the horizontal position indicates a loss of momentum for this time format. This increases the chances that the price of crossing Moving Average is relatively easy. When Moving averages of different lengths arranged in a horizontal line close to each other, the price often fluctuates back and forth across these lines, creating a lot of "market noise".

5. Moving averages of permanent signals because they are formed directly on top of the price. Their relative correlation with the development of the price varies with each bar. They also demonstrate a strong relationship in the form of convergence - divergence from all other types of support and resistance.

6. Use of Exponential Moving average, or EMA, for longer temporary format, but go to a simple Moving averages, or SMA, for shorter time formats. EMA attach more weight to recent changes in price, while the SMA considers each quotation to the same.

7. Short-term SMA allow a trader to understand how other players will act. The market audience using simple Moving averages, because they do not understand the Exponential Moving averages. Good intraday signals rely more on what they think other market participants rather than on the technical side of the situation.

8. Place a five-, eight - and 13-periodnye SMAHa intra-day charts to measure the strength of short-term trend. With the strong movements Moving averages build the line and point in the same direction. But they are separated by one at the maximum and minimum, until price finally, do not go in another direction.

9. Location of the price on 200-day moving average determines the long-term investor psychology. Bulls live above the 200-day moving average, while the bears live below it. Dealers absorb regenerative rally below the "line in the sand, while buyers come to the aid of above it.

10. When the 50-Day Moving Average crosses the 200-day Moving Average in any direction, it predicts a significant change in the behavior of buyers and sellers. When the 50-Day Moving Average rises above 200-day moving average - this is called the "Golden Cross", vtovremyakakmedvezhe intersection is called the "death cross."

11. For the price more difficult to break above declining moving average, the higher the increasing moving average. Conversely, the more difficult for prices to fall after rising Moving averages than declining moving average cost.

12. Moving averages set naraznye time periods show the speed of the trend through their relationships with each other. Measure it using the classic indicator MACD, or using multiple Moving averages to your schedule and see how they diverge or converge over time.

13. Place a 60-day Moving Average volume for the green and red bar graph below the level of the price schedule, which would determine when a session showed an unexpected interest. Tilt the rolling average also identifies No hidden pressure buyers or sellers.

14. Do not use long-term sliding average, to make short-term forecasts, because they will be abreast of current events. The trend may already be mature and closer to its conclusion by the time the rolling average would send a signal buy or sell.

15. Levels of support and resistance are established Moving averages, where they diverge and converge together. See, when a rolling average bounce off of another moving average, rather than immediately break through it, confirming in this way, support or resistance. After the crossing, finally took place, this level becomes a support or resistance for future price movements.

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