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 ...

Moving averages are technical indicators used by investors in the stock market. A moving average (MA) represents the sum of the closing prices of a security over a specific number of periods divided ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Navin is a Colorado-based journalist who writes about stocks. Below the 200-day moving average is an alarm bell for those ...

The S&P 500 slid below its 200-day moving average on Monday into what many stock-market technicians see as a “danger zone.” But in truth, breaking below a moving average is not the bearish omen it ...

Stock charts can be confusing, even for veteran investors. All those lines and data points. But many stock-chart tools can be valuable even for novices—and one of the most important is something ...