Anyone use moving average indicators?

[panzerman]

For those wishing to use MAs, try this exponential moving average.

alpha*(price+bestgain*(price-EMA[1]))+(1-alpha)*EMA[1]

where alpha = 0.25 and bestgain = 0.5

Next, start playing around with different alphas and gain factors. Best of luck.

btw, EMAs are just infinite impulse response (IIR) lowpass filters.

 

[murray t turtle]

I use 21-pd ema on all TFs except 13-pd ema on Monthly. Works for me, but most of the time I don't know what I'm doing.

LOL,21 ema?? I use a 20 SMA, not as front run/faster run , 'cause its a 20 simple ma.
One of my chart services use a 13 period moving average on volume, as a default;works for me, but i prefer 50 on volume, like investors.com uses as a default......,..,.

PS; I fed peanuts to an elephant@ the ZOO/LOL/TRUE, as a kid. His trunk was in a trading range. I dont remember if they were salted peanuts, or plain peanuts?? But that is why a SPY-buy + hold ;;almost always beats trading- +dividends 2. A ma , any ma will chop slop, in a trading range[aka barbed wire range an elitetrader nicknamed it.]Like Robert M noted;dollar cost average, like he told his daughter.,,

 

[lisa-world-travel]

LOL,21 ema?? I use a 20 SMA, not as front run/faster run , 'cause its a 20 simple ma.
One of my chart services use a 13 period moving average on volume, as a default;works for me, but i prefer 50 on volume, like investors.com uses as a default......,..,.

PS; I fed peanuts to an elephant@ the ZOO/LOL/TRUE, as a kid. His trunk was in a trading range. I dont remember if they were salted peanuts, or plain peanuts?? But that is why a SPY-buy + hold ;;almost always beats trading- +dividends 2. A ma , any ma will chop slop, in a trading range[aka barbed wire range an elitetrader nicknamed it.]Like Robert M noted;dollar cost average, like he told his daughter.,,

I was told to use ema instead of sma because with the former one sees trouble coming in the nick of time

 

[murray t turtle]

You could use the hurricane warning chart:

http://retirementoptimizer.com/

or just get out when 12 month MA or 200 DayMA turn down and re-enter when it turns up.

I was told to use ema instead of sma because with the former one sees trouble coming in the nick of time

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Fine; have used both.

 

[lisa-world-travel]

Of course I do, moving average indicators are mighty useful when they are used in conjunction with other indicators and in light of sudden news and economic events. Remember, in light of black swan events, all technical indicators go out of the door!

That's what happened to my house and car when the swan came.

 

[monet]

That's what happened to my house and car when the swan came.

You're fantasising about a black swan event that never happened whilst pretending to be a woman

 

[lisa-world-travel]

You're fantasising about a black swan event that never happened whilst pretending to be a woman

Sure it did. Facebook stock. It hit both men and women.

 

[comagnum]

So Lisa-World-Travel what are your favorite surfing spots?

Kind of hard to know when you some dude posing as a women - your not fooling anyone.

 

[lisa-world-travel]

So Lisa-World-Travel what are your favorite surfing spots?

Kind of hard to know when you some dude posing as a women - your not fooling anyone.

Hawaii still ranks #1 for women, men, men posing as women and women posing as men.

"your not fooling anyone" .... pls change that to "you're" ...... so nobody mistakes you for a blond.

 

[murray t turtle]

That's what happened to my house and car when the swan came.

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I had a bank repo,when younger=then the bank sued me for the balance. I never told my banker dad- he would have frowned on that...…..LOL funny now , a real tear jerker then.