The daily chart for QQQ shows that the index tracked its 50-day simple moving average higher until the beginning of 2022. Note that November 22, 2021 was a key reversal day. A new high was set with ...

When the 50-day moving average crosses over the 200-day moving average, it’s called a golden cross — a powerful technical pattern that indicates incoming bullish momentum. When the same moving average ...

I use a mechanical strategy to buy or hold SPY if the S&P 500 closes above its 200-day SMA at month-end. This strategy avoids emotional decisions, keeping me long in uptrends and out of the market in ...

The 200-day simple moving average is a reliable indicator for determining a bullish or bearish bias in SPY. The 200-day SMA strategy has outperformed a buy and hold approach since 2000, especially ...

The Invesco QQQ Trust ETF QQQ represents the stocks in the Nasdaq 100. The daily chart shows that the ETF held its 200-day simple moving average at $290.06 on March 2. This chart also shows that a ...

Moving averages (MAs) are among the most basic technical indicators commonly used by forex traders in their currency trading strategies. Among the major benefits of their use in trading forex, MAs can ...

Casey Murphy has fanned his passion for finance through years of writing about active trading, technical analysis, market commentary, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), commodities, futures, options, and ...

The simple moving average, or SMA, is one of the most common pieces of technical data that investors rely on. In the case of the 200-day SMA, it shows you the stock’s average price over the past 200 ...

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 ...

The second table above shows the current 10-month simple moving average (SMA) signal for each of the five ETFs featured in The Ivy Portfolio. The third table shows the 12-month SMAs for the same ETFs ...