Buy and hold investing on the S&P 500 index with a low cost mutual fund is a top performing system first made popular by Jack Bogle. Warren Buffett also recommends this strategy as a way to beat the majority of mutual fund managers and hedge fund managers. Most financial advisers recommend this buy and hold […]
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A moving average crossover signal is when you use both a short term moving average and a long term moving average on the same chart. A crossover signal is generated when the moving averages break above or break below each other. A trader buys when the shorter term moving average crosses over the longer term
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I get asked all the time the question: “What moving average is better the simple moving average or the exponential moving average?” The answer to this is that it depends on the market you are trading and what your backtests show on your specific markets. The simple moving average is just that, simply the moving
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Here is an example of a simple long term profitable trend following system for the $SPY and $QQQ ETFs. This is backtest data from trading the most popular of all moving average crossover signals the “Golden Cross” that is the 50 day / 200 day simple moving average crossover. This signal goes long when the
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Here is an example of a simple moving average crossover strategy that beats buy and hold investing. This strategy combines two winning strategies, the golden cross 50/200 day and the stand alone price over the 200 day moving average system. These are both end of day signals based on the daily chart. Entry conditions: You go
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Moving averages are the best indicators for the direction of a trend because of their power and simplicity to smooth out price direction in trend trading. They create lines on your charts to filter out the daily trading ranges and show the true direction a market is going in for a specific time frame. When
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I like moving average signals for their power and simplicity in trend trading and here is why: Moving averages are a way to smooth price action and quantify a trend. Moving averages are tools that can work on any time frame. They can remove your predictions and opinions from your trading and replace them with
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This is a book review by @AKFallible along with my updated backtest data for the 200 day simple moving average end of month trend following system. What if I told you there was an incredibly simple moving average system that crushed buy and hold investing? It is not that complicated and only takes one action
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Moving averages are technical trading tools that can act as filtering lines for trends and support and resistance lines on charts. They can also be combined together for crossover signals to filter out more of the volaitlity of price action. Moving averages can also be used in confluence with other techncial indicators for discretionary trading
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