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Long-Term Moving Average

Long-Term Moving Average

The average price of a security over several weeks or months, calculated continuously. For instance, one may calculate a long-term moving average by adding the closing prices from each day for the past 52 weeks and dividing by the number of trading days considered. As with all moving averages, long-term moving averages may or may not be weighted. Moving averages help smooth out noise that may be present in a security's price on a given trading day. See also: Simple Moving Average, Exponential Moving Average.
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These averages are crucial support points as failure to hold will pull prices back to its long-term moving average (200-day moving average) which is currently at 7,020, Limlingan said.
Analysts who study charts of past price movements said gold had now found support from a long-term moving average.
The proposition introduced is that no local job market can sustain job growth above a long-term moving average. The longer that annual job growth is greater than the long-term moving average, the more likely it is that a period of job decline will occur.
'Meralco shares have been trading above both its short- and long-term moving averages for a month now.
We are below short- and long-term moving averages.'
However, the major trend is up as the markets are currently trading above their short-term, medium-term and long-term moving averages. Any dip is an opportunity to buy," said Haddad.
We advise to stay light on positions or accumulate issues which are still holding above long-term moving averages, he said.
A cautious position is still raised this week, especially since some issues have already recovered above their long-term moving averages. On the other hand, we recommend taking profits on trading positions or sell those which are now trading near resistance, he said.
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