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.

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It's also important, when using value and momentum theory, to: (1) exit or hedge stocks when they are in the top 20% overvalued territory, and (2) exit or hedge stocks when they are below the long-term moving average on the S&P 500.

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Analysts who study charts of past price movements said gold had now found support from a long-term moving average.

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The screen that I'm running today looks for stocks trading above their short-term moving averages (10- and 20-day), intermediate term moving average (50-day) and long-term moving average (200-day).

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An example of a long-term moving average would be the 200-day moving.

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However, it could be a while before TWX has to deal directly with this long-term moving average.

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52 coincides roughly with this long-term moving average.

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During this time frame, the shares have logged only one monthly close above this long-term moving average.

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80 and BELOW its 200-day long-term moving average of 52.

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80 and ABOVE its 200-day long-term moving average of 52.

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