SMA is my favorite

[eleanorK80]

SMA is my favorite one due to its simplicity, trend identification capabilities, smoothing effect, support/resistance levels, and widespread usage.
How has it helped you in making informed trading decisions?

 

[Sekiyo]

BDSM is my favorite

Simple, Dominant side identification, Stress Relief effect, Pain/Pleasure levels & Widespread usage

 

[maxinger]

The naked chart (except for the candlesticks) is my favorite
due to its simplicity, trend identification capabilities, smoothing effect, and widespread usage.

 

[M.W.]

You are such a sweetheart and cutie. Yet so naive.

SMA is my favorite one due to its simplicity, trend identification capabilities, smoothing effect, support/resistance levels, and widespread usage.
How has it helped you in making informed trading decisions?

 

[maxinger]

You are such a sweetheart and cutie. Yet so naive.

huh?

By default, if I see an attractive female avatar, I'd assume the writer is a male.

Millions of males in this world have used such tactics to con other gullible foolish males.

PS: You
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rarely see a hideous female avatar.




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common to see an attractive female avatar.

 

[panzerman]

SMA is my favorite one due to its simplicity, trend identification capabilities, smoothing effect, support/resistance levels, and widespread usage.
How has it helped you in making informed trading decisions?

Let me break it down for you. An SMA is a finite impulse response (FIR) lowpass digital filter. The group delay (ie lag) for an FIR filter is (n-1)/2 where n = length in days of your calculation window. Lag is the reason why moving averages don't work.

Speaking of windows, an SMA is a boxcar window. A smoother curve can be had, for the same lag, by changing the frequency response to a Gaussian window.

Ex: 5 day SMA coefficients [1,1,1,1,1] versus Gaussian [1,2,3,2,1] divided by 9 of course.

 

[SunTrader]

The optimum moving average of any kind uses a length of .............................. 1.

 

[Bad_Badness]

The optimum moving average of any kind uses a length of .............................. 1.

or < 1

 

[SunTrader]

or < 1

< 1 is < price itself.

How's that?

 

[panzerman]

< 1 is < price itself.

How's that?

Price is highly fractal in nature. 1 day, 1 hour, 1 minute, 1 millisecond. Of course there is a bottom limit given the speed of light and how fast a processor can process data.