Technical Analysis

Moving Averages

Make the moving average your primary trend tool — SMA vs EMA, the periods that matter, golden and death crosses, dynamic support and resistance, and ribbons. Read trend direction and strength at a glance.

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StartLesson 1 · SMA — Construction & Meaning

What you’ll leave with10 lessons · 9-line playbook

A moving average is the trend in one line — the slope of the line is the direction of the trend.
An EMA weights the latest closes, so it turns faster than an SMA: earlier signals, but more whipsaw.
Short MAs hug price and whip; long MAs (50, 200) define the bigger trend — pick the period for the job.
Golden cross = fast MA over slow (bullish); death cross = fast under slow (bearish). Both lag the turn.
In a trend, price pulls back to the MA and bounces — a rising MA is support, a falling MA is resistance.
A fanned-out ribbon means a strong trend; a tangled ribbon means no trend — trade the fan, not the tangle.
Price above a rising, in-order stack is an uptrend; below a falling stack is a downtrend; flat and crossed is a range.
Wide separation and a steep slope mean a strong trend; converging MAs mean it is weakening.
Trade in the direction the MAs point — enter on pullbacks to the MA, never fight the stack.

Moving Averages

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