When carefully scrutinizing a stock or exchange traded fund chart, investors often follow the moving average as a valuable tool in guiding an investment strategy. However, investors may have ...

Understand the difference between an exponential moving average (EMA) and a simple moving average (SMA) and the sensitivity each one shows to changes in the data used in its calculation.

The exponential moving average (EMA) provides more weight to the most recent prices in an attempt to better reflect new market data. The difference between the two is noticeable when comparing ...