Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Meaning Of Forex Trend Indicators And Introduction Of Moving Average Indicator.

Trend indicators in Forex reflect three tendencies in price movements:

Up moves, Down moves and Sideways price moves.

Trend indicators help defining the prevailing direction - trend - of the price moves by smoothening price data over certain period of time. In simple words, Trend indicators allow to visualize Trends in the market.

MOVING AVERAGE INDICATOR:

Moving averages are one of the most popular and easy to use tools available to the technical analyst. Moving average Forex indicator is the average price for a given time interval in relation to other prices during the similar time periods. For instance the closing prices over a 5-day period would have a moving average of the total of the five closing prices divided by five.

A moving average is an average of a shifting body of data, as seen from its name. For example, a 10-day moving average is got by adding closing prices for the last 10 periods being measured and dividing by 10. The term "moving" is used as only the last 10 days are used in the measurement. That's why the data body is averaged shifted forward with every next trading day.

The moving average line will be placed directly in the price shifting chart. The moving average is measured with a definite predefined period. The sensibility of the moving average is weaker if the period is longer. The probability of false signals is higher if the period is shorter.


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