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Forex market price movements are so volatile and confusing.
To smoothen out the price fluctuations and interpret the price movements as trends, moving averages are widely used.
For example, a simple moving average of 11 applied to close, will return the average of the closing prices of the last 11 candles including the currently forming candle.
So, unless the currently forming candle is not closed, the current moving average is fluctuating up and down with the price movements.
You can also keep different moving averages for different time frames, like 24 for H1 since there are 24 numbers of 1 hour candles in h1 chart and 30 for h4 since there are 30 numbers of 4 hour candles in h4 chart.
You can also choose from simple moving averages, exponential moving averages, smoothed moving averages and linear weighted moving averages.
You can also change the properties of the moving averages from the drop down menu.