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Moving Averages for Beginners
Master the Five Essential MAs in Technical Analysis
Moving averages sit on nearly every chart in the world, and most traders use one or two of them without ever deciding why that one.
This book teaches five of them completely: the simple, exponential, weighted, and Hull moving averages, plus Wilder's smoothing, the average hidden inside RSI and ATR. You learn how each is calculated, why its math makes it faster or slower than the others, and what that speed costs you in false signals.
Then the averages go to work. Crossovers, bounces off a rising average, and the role reversal where old support turns into resistance are each treated as trades in their own right, with entries, exits, and risk defined.
The book also covers what most moving-average books leave out: how to recognize that your moving-average system has stopped working, and what to do when it has. It closes by building a complete, rules-based system around the averages you choose.
Inside the book
- How each of the five averages is calculated, and why that shapes how it behaves
- Reading trend direction, crossovers, and dynamic support and resistance
- Combining averages into dual systems, triple systems, and ribbons
- A four-question framework for choosing the right average for any market and timeframe
- Moving-average bounces and role reversals as standalone setups
- The warning signs of a failing moving-average system, and what to do about it
- A complete rules-based system built around the averages you choose
13 chapters, 31 charts, 267 pages in paperback.
Look inside
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- The contents
- The opening of Chapter 1
- Trade example: the simple moving average
- Trade example: the smoothed moving average
Who it's for
Traders who keep a moving average on every chart but have never been sure which one to use, or why.
