Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

A moving average is a type of trendline that smoothes out values of adjacent statistical observations and thereby eliminates minor or irregular fluctuations (called "noise"). A moving average is one ...

In your school life, you have learned about average and the method to calculate it. The formula to calculate the average is very simple. You just have to add all the values in the given data and ...

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 ...

Disclosure: I hold no positions in Boeing, Disney, General Electric, Home Depot, Coca Cola, McDonald's or Nike. The Dow Jones Industrial Average set an all-time intraday high of 18,668.44 on Aug. 15 ...