Category: Moving Averages

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…

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.…

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…

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…

The 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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…