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Simple Moving Average

Trading Term

The simple moving average sums the prices (you can choose from the closing price, the VWAP time-weighted price or the high/low/close average price) for a specific number of data points and divides by that number. The calculation for a 3-bar simple moving average is:

(price_1) + (price_2) + (price_3) divided by 3

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