Stock Moving Average Calculation | Formula

Stock Moving Average Calculation

Stock Moving Average Calculation | Definition

(1) The mean value calculated at any time over a past period of fixed length.

(2) The average of security or commodity prices within a time series. The time period can be as short as a few days or as long as several years. As each new variable is included in calculating the average, the last variable of the series is deleted.

For example, a 14-day average of closing prices is calculated by adding the last 14 closes and dividing by 14. The result is noted on a chart. The next day the same calculations are performed, and the new result is connected to yesterday's with a solid or dotted line. And so forth.

Variations of the simple moving average are the weighted and exponential moving averages.

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