Moving Average is a technique to show trends in data while minimizing the effect of random changes. For instance, in the case a the price of a stock, a 10-day Moving Average would be the computed as the average of the prices over the last 10 days. Each day, the Moving Average is updated by dropping the oldest price and including the current day’s (newest) price in the average. Moving Averages can be computed for various durations and using various methods.
