When a stock breaks out above the 20-day simple moving average, good things could be on the horizon. How should investors ...

A moving average is a popular technical analysis tool used to reflect trends in the stock market and individual equities. Option traders use moving averages to determine which direction an equity’s ...

In theory, trend trading is easy. All you need to do is keep on buying when you see the price rising higher and keep on selling when you see it breaking lower. In practice, however, it is far more ...

Good things could be on the horizon when a stock surpasses the 20-day simple moving average. How should investors react?

Stock-market bears won the battle of the 200-day moving average last week, with the important chart level finally giving way after repeated tests. Now the line, viewed as a proxy for a market's ...

A moving average is not the bearish omen it used to be The S&P 500 slid below its 200-day moving average on Monday into what many stock-market technicians see as a "danger zone." But in truth, ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The S&P 500 slid below its 200-day moving average on Monday into what many stock-market technicians see as a “danger zone.” But in truth, breaking below a moving average is not the bearish omen it ...