Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

One of the most straightforward tools in an investor’s toolkit is the simple moving average (SMA). The SMA is a fundamental technical indicator that smooths out volatility from price data to help ...

A moving average is a popular technical analysis tool used to reflect trends in the stock market and individual equities. Option traders use moving averages to determine which direction an equity’s ...

What Is A Moving Average? Moving averages are important in many time series data applications. The study of moving averages is part of the academic disciplines of statistics and mathematics.

This morning we quickly made a journey below S&P 1307 aka the 50 day exponential moving average but rather than leading to an extensive selloff, a buy order came in quickly sending the S&P 500 back up ...