Moving Average Strategy

SPY 200-day Moving Average Strategy

SPY 200-day Moving Average Strategy (Beats Buy and Hold)

Buy and hold investing is the strategy of buying a diversified portfolio of stocks using mutual funds or ETFs and holding them for the long-term. The normal hold time for buy and hold can be from 30 to 40 years. The strategy uses the historical returns for the U.S. stock market as its backtest. The […]

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BEST Moving Averages for Crossover Trading Strategies

Moving averages are technical trading tools that can help identify trends on different time frames. They can replace opinions and predictions for making trading decisions by being used as signals. Moving averages can identify trends and swings in price action in real time also signal range bound markets when they go flat with no directional

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8 Tips for Pro Traders They’ll Never Teach in Schools

8 Tips for Pro Traders Not Taught in Schools

This is a guest post by Scott Redler, Chief Strategic Officer of T3 Live and T3 Trading Group.    Scott has been a professional trader and technical analyst since 1999. His work has been cited by countless media outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business, Bloomberg, the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, MarketWatch, and Investor’s Business Daily.  

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200 Day Moving Average vs Buy and Hold

200 Day Moving Average vs Buy and Hold

Is there a simple moving average trading strategy that crushes buy and hold investing? If so, what moving average and time frame combination would accomplish this going back at least 20 years? The 200-day simple moving average as an end of month signal on the SPY ETF accomplishes this feat.  Buy and hold investing on

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Best Moving Average Crossover For Swing Trading

Best Moving Average Crossover For Swing Trading

What is the best moving average crossover for swing trading? My favorite moving average crossover for swing trading that I have also confirmed through backtesting on the momentum names on my watchlist is the 5 day exponential moving average / 20 day exponential moving average crossover on the daily chart. I call this bullish crossover

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200 Day Moving Average Strategy

200 Day Moving Average Strategy that Beats Buy and Hold

Buy and hold investing itself is not valid on the majority of individual stocks. Buy and hold works on indexes like the S&P 500 because these indexes are diversified and contain the future biggest winning stocks. Warren Buffett also recommends this strategy as a way to beat the majority of mutual fund managers and hedge

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Moving Average Ribbon Signals

Moving Average Ribbon Signals

A moving average ribbon indicator is a set of multiple moving averages of different timeframes placed on a chart all at one time. A ribbon instantly shows price action in relation to all the different moving averages.  The Steve Burns Moving Average Ribbon is created with five different length moving averages. Exponential moving averages are

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Moving Average Ribbon Signals

New Technical Indicator: Steve Burns Moving Averages Ribbon

The Steve Burns Ribbon technical indicator is a new tool for the technical analysis of stock trends by combining key moving averages. The MA Ribbon by Steve Burns is currently available on the TrendSpider.com charting platform and can be searched in indicators and loaded onto charts.  The moving averages in the Steve Burns Ribbon can

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Best Exponential Moving Average Crossover Signals

Exponential moving average crossover signals are one way to capture trends on a chart by entering a long trade when a shorter term moving average crosses over a longer term one, then exiting as the shorter term moving average crosses back under the longer term one. The inverse of this are moving average cross under

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Moving Average Exponential Ribbon

My Favorite Exponential Moving Average Crossover Signal

You have probably heard of the bullish 50/200 day moving average crossover golden cross or the the bearish 50/200 day moving average cross under death cross which is a long term trend signal on charts, especially for the major stock indexes. These signals are even mentioned on financial news networks when they occur in real

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