In this lesson, we look at another technical analysis tool that helps traders to identify market trends: moving averages. The lesson includes a step-by-step exercise for you to practise setting MAs ...

Moving Averages may be the most popular technical indicator because they are easy to understand. After all, a 10-day Simple Moving Average is calculated by just taking the closing prices of the last ...

Generally, in an uptrend, the shorter-period or faster moving averages will remain above the longer-period or slower ones. You'd expect that because the slower moving averages will take longer to ...