J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Michael Logan ...

Stella Osoba is the Senior Editor of trading and investing at Investopedia. She co-founded and chaired Women in Technical Analysis. She has 15+ years of experience as a financial writer and technical ...

A moving average is a type of trendline that smoothes out values of adjacent statistical observations and thereby eliminates minor or irregular fluctuations (called "noise"). A moving average is one ...

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 ...

The 200-day moving average strategy has increased risk-adjusted returns since 1951, but underperforms the S&P 500 on a price return basis. In this article, I show that the 225-day moving average ...