Hi everyone,
just wanted to share a website I found, which is actually for
stock markets and their charts, but I think the Moving Average of
a data set, that's what we'd have in common. And I guess what the
economists have discovered and thought being useful could be
useful for us, too. There are some nice and easy to understand
articles here that explain the pros and cons:
http://www.investopedia.com/university/
Dictionary:
- Simple Moving Average:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sma.asp
(what we have now)
- Weighted Moving Average:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/l/linearlyweightedmovingaverage.asp
(Hlabishi's proposal)
- Exponential Moving Average:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/ema.asp
- Double Exponential Moving Average:
http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-exponential-moving-average.asp
Articles:
- Weighted Moving Average:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/technical/060401.asp
- Simple vs. Exponential Moving Average:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/10/simple-exponential-moving-a…
- Double Exponential Moving Averages Explained:
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/trading/10/double-exponential-moving-a…
- Moving Averages:
http://www.investopedia.com/university/movingaverage/default.asp
Cheers, Linus