http://www.theolaptrader.com/technical-indicators/is-a-moving-average-the-same-thing-as-a-trailing-average-and-if-it-is-not-how-is-each-calculated/ Candlesticks | Harmonics | Charts & More! Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:12:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.theolaptrader.com/technical-indicators/is-a-moving-average-the-same-thing-as-a-trailing-average-and-if-it-is-not-how-is-each-calculated/comment-page-1/#comment-906 Tiarta Sun, 09 May 2010 23:59:54 +0000 http://www.theolaptrader.com/technical-indicators/is-a-moving-average-the-same-thing-as-a-trailing-average-and-if-it-is-not-how-is-each-calculated/#comment-906 A moving average is a type of trailing average. Trailing average just means that the information is historical. A trailing 12-month average price is the average of the price over the last 12 months. A moving 12-month price average would mean that every month you would drop the oldest month data point and add the new month data point. For example, a 12-month moving average would contain the months January 2009 - December 2009 and then after January 2010 completes, the 12-month moving average would contain February 2009 - January 2010. A moving average is a type of trailing average. Trailing average just means that the information is historical. A trailing 12-month average price is the average of the price over the last 12 months. A moving 12-month price average would mean that every month you would drop the oldest month data point and add the new month data point. For example, a 12-month moving average would contain the months January 2009 – December 2009 and then after January 2010 completes, the 12-month moving average would contain February 2009 – January 2010.

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