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Simple Moving Average - SMA

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Simple Moving Average - SMA
A simple, or arithmetic, moving average is calculated by adding the closing price of the security for a number of time periods and then dividing this total by the number of time periods.

Notes:
In other words, it's the average stock price over a period of time. Keep in mind that equal weighting is given to each daily price.

See also: EMA, Moving Average


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