How to Use Moving Averages to Find the Trend

If the price is above a moving average, the trend is up. If the price is below a moving average, the trend is down. However, moving averages can have different lengths (discussed shortly), so one MA may indicate an uptrend while another MA indicates a downtrend.

·  Moving averages are technical indicators that are often used by investors in the stock market.

·  A moving average represents the sum of the closing prices of a security over a set number of periods and is then divided by the total number of periods.

·  Using the 50-day and 200-day moving averages together represent powerful trading signals in the market.

·  Typically, the cross of a stock’s 50-day above its 200-day moving average is a major signal that the stock has begun an uptrend.

·  Conversely, a stock’s 50-day cross below its 200-day MA can signal a downtrend and is often called the death cross.

One sweet way to use moving averages is to help you determine the trend.

The simplest way is to just plot a single moving average on the chart.

When price action tends to stay above the moving average, it signals that price is in a general UPTREND.

If price action tends to stay below the moving average, then it indicates that it is in a DOWNTREND.

  • A moving average (MA) is a widely used technical indicator that smooths out price trends by filtering out the noise from random short-term price fluctuations.
  • Moving averages can be constructed in several different ways and employ different numbers of days for the averaging interval.
  • The most common applications of moving averages are to identify trend direction and to determine support and resistance levels.
  • When asset prices cross over their moving averages, it may generate a trading signal for technical traders.
  • While moving averages are useful enough on their own, they also form the basis for other technical indicators such as the moving average convergence divergence (MACD).

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