For the simple moving average, add the closing price for each day in the period together, then divide the result by the total number of days in the period. In this example, moving averages for 10 ...

Moving averages can be calculated using daily closing prices, monthly prices, weekly prices, opening prices, or even intraday prices. The chart above is an example of a simple moving average on a ...

For the sake of example, we'll use a 10-day moving average throughout this discussion, though the calculations for weekly and monthly moving averages would follow the same logic. A simple 10-day ...