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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 ...

Moving averages are calculated by combining price points of an instrument over a specified time frame and dividing by the number of data points to obtain a single trend line.