J.B. Maverick is an active trader, commodity futures broker, and stock market analyst 17+ years of experience, in addition to 10+ years of experience as a finance writer and book editor. Samantha (Sam ...

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 ...

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 ...

Advanced Micro Devices AMD has been above its 200-week simple moving average, or “reversion to the mean” since the week of February 3, 2023. It’s also been above its 200-day simple moving average ...

Technical indicators can make a big difference while trading. Among the most popular strategies used to indicate emerging and common trends is calculating the moving average (MA). Put simply, the MA ...

One of the primary objectives of any market analyst is to determine what exactly the market is doing. Is it rising or falling, trending or consolidating? And how do you know? For most, that analysis ...

Cisco Systems CSCO gapped below its 50-day simple moving average at $50.00 on Thursday and is now also well below its quarterly and monthly pivots at $50.82 and $50.00. Its nearest support is its ...