Trade with Moving Average

[MechXTrader]

Tutorial on Trading with Moving Averages:
http://www.indicatorforex.com/conten...oving-averages

[miskec]

Moving average is one of the most popular and easy to use tools available for doing technical analysis. It means the average price of a currency 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 currency’s price is trending up or down. They can be used to track daily, weekly, or monthly patterns. 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. In general, the shorter the time frame used, the more volatile the prices will appear, so, for example, 20 day moving average lines tend to move up and down more than 200 day moving average lines. There are four different types of moving averages: Simple (also referred to as Arithmetic), Exponential, Smoothed and Linear Weighted. Moving averages may be calculated for any sequential data set, including opening and closing prices, highest and lowest prices, trading volume or any other indicators. It is often the case when double moving averages are used.

[Sofia]

A simple moving average could be interpreted thus. When currency price rises above its moving average, it’s signal to buy. A sell signal is generated when price of the currency falls below its moving average.

Moving Average Convergence/Divergence (MACD)~ It’s buy signal when MACD rises above signal line, and sell signal comes into play when MACD is falling below signal line.

[FXexpert]

Exactly, simple moving averages can be simple to follow and very effective.

[mikey109021]

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[Pinalli]

It is the average price over a specific time period, when that price is compared to other average prices during the same period. For example, what would be the moving average of ending prices over a 10-day period? It would simply be the total of the ten ending prices divided by 10. Then there is the “simple moving average”, wherein the price is averaged over a number of days. Every successive day, the oldest price is excluded from the average to be replaced by the current price. So you could say that the average keeps moving daily. Moving averages are used to iron out the rough edges from price information. This helps to authenticate and confirm trends and also support and resistance levels.

[alessio09]

Mathematically, a moving average is a kind of convolution and so it is close by its meaning to the low-pass filter used in signal processing. If it is used with non-time series data, a moving average simply shows a generic smoothing operation without any specific connection to time period, but typically some kind of ordering is implied.

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[anna575]

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[bestforexpartners]

Thanks for providing such a valuable post. Now a days moving averages are plays important role in Forex trading so to have a proper knowledge we must follow certain tutorials.

[j'ai]

Hi,
I always use moving averages to exit a trade. I find that exiting when they cross give me the best results I get from the trade.