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• Visiting MOMA by Stephan Bisse

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (22-27): Visiting MOMA by Stephan Bisse Give your moving averages a head start with move-adjusted moving averages. The most popular of all technical indicators may be the moving average. The backbone of many trading systems, moving averages are great for filtering out the noise from time series and showing the underlying trend of where the time series has been. By definition, however, moving averages on their own can never say anything about the future direction of a time series, regardless of the lookback period used or any standard adjustments or weightings ap...

AUTHOR: Stephan BisseDATE: FEB 2005SUBJECT: New Techniques

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• Sidebar: MOMA and Excel by Stephan Bisse

  ARTICLE SYNOPSIS ...Stocks & Commodities V. 23:2 (22-27): Sidebar: MOMA and Excel by Stephan Bisse Simple moving averages are great tools for filtering out noise from time series, but all they can do is show where a time series has been. The only way that a moving average can point the way to market direction is if additional information -- a leading indicator for that time series -- is included in the calculation. One way of doing this is adjusting each datapoint in the lookback period by the absolute move that preceded each datapoint as a percentage of the sum of all the absolute moves in the lookback period. If...

AUTHOR: Stephan BisseDATE: FEB 2005SUBJECT: Sidebar