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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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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There are four primary different types of the most popular used moving averages on charts by traders: Simple (SMA), Exponential (EMA), Smoothed (SMMA), and Volume Weighted (VWMA). Different moving averages can be calculated different ways depending on their type using any sequential data sample size, this could include opening and closing prices, highest and lowest
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Chart Courtesy of TrendSpider.com How do you do a backtest moving average crossover strategy? A moving average crossover signal is when you use both a short term moving average and a long term moving average on the same chart. A crossover signal is generated when the moving averages break above or break below each other.
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Chart courtesy of TrendSpider.comThe 50-day moving average strategy uses this line on a chart to filter whether a stock or index is in an uptrend or downtrend. Price above this line is bullish and prices below this line are bearish. Above this line traders should be thinking about long positions and below it they should
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The Hull moving average was developed by Alan Hull as he tried to improve on the weighted moving averages and others for smoother trend and swing signals during a charts trends and swings in price action. The HMA uses weighted moving averages and dampens the smoothing effect and resulting lag by using the square root
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The alligator is the metaphor for this technical indicator. Three lines are used to create it on a price chart. Each line in the indicator is a moving average of a different time period: the 5 SMA , 8 SMA and 13 SMA. The lines represent the jaw(13), the teeth(8), and the lips(5)of the alligator.
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The Golden Cross stock trading strategy is an example of a simple long term trend following system. This is one of the most popular and famous bullish moving average crossover signals that is watched and talked about on financial media when they occur on major indexes. The second most popular being the loss of the
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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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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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