Moving averages

Moving averages provides data analysts and scientists with a basic predictive model. Despite its simplicity, the moving average method is widely used in a variety of fields such as marketing survey, consumer behavior, or sport statistics. Traders use the moving averages to identify levels of support and resistance for the price of a given security.

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Averaging reducing function:

Let's consider a time series x_t = x(t) and a function f(x_t-p-1,… x_t) that reduces the last p observations into a value or average. The estimation of the observation at t is defined by the following formula:

Here, f is an average reducing function from the previous p data points.

Simple moving average

Simple moving average is the simplest form of the moving averaging algorithms [3:2]. The simple moving average of period p estimates the value at time t by computing the average value of the previous p observations using the following formula:

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Simple moving average:

M1: The simple moving average of...