What basic two things am I misunderstanding about moving averages?

Discussion in 'Technical Analysis' started by marshg, Oct 7, 2015.

  1. marshg

    marshg

    ok that's a good tip--i will ck it out--thanks! I wonder if anyone has had success using moving averages for VIX related trading. That is something of a different animal than stocks, and seems like might be more likely to work than for equities.
     
    #21     Oct 8, 2015
  2. piezoe

    piezoe

    Panzerman , I loved your response which made me grin from ear to ear. And while it makes perfect sense to me, I used to teach this stuff, it probably makes no sense to most traders here. Most of them will intuitively discover what works better. I loved your use of octaves for a doubling of the frequency, mixing the musical with the physical.

    But let me say this about that, as President Kennedy used to say. While you are of course correct in wanting to use longer periods to eliminate short term noise (what swing traders, and macro economic trend investors do) there is likely only a handful of people on this site that have any clue of what the fuck you are talking about. But thank you for the laugh. (I'm sure if there are any Goldman Physicists reading this they are getting a good chuckle too.)
     
    #22     Oct 8, 2015
  3. marshg

    marshg

    certainly I had/have no idea what he was referring to, so glad you appreciated it
     
    #23     Oct 8, 2015
  4. Are you really that stupid?
     
    #24     Oct 8, 2015
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  5. heypa

    heypa

    When you miss plot a moving average you have to do all kinds of dancing to make sense of it.The last real plot of a moving average should be plotted at one half the moving average behind the last data point.
     
    #25     Oct 9, 2015
  6. vicirek

    vicirek

    and what this is going to achieve in real time?
     
    #26     Oct 9, 2015
  7. piezoe

    piezoe

    I am so stupid in fact that I did not even understand your remark.:D
     
    #27     Oct 9, 2015
  8. heypa

    heypa

    Vicirick Just keep on dancing rather than use realistic analysis. Just plot some correctly and see if you can use them.If not revert to dancing and see if you can figure out how to use them as incorrectly plotted. If not drop them.
     
    #28     Oct 9, 2015
  9. vicirek

    vicirek

    OK, I just plotted yesterday's market action as you said. Now how I can make money with it today? Are you using it? How much money did you make using it?
     
    #29     Oct 9, 2015
  10. heypa

    heypa

    We are discussing the use of moving averages not my trading results. Hurst a long time ago wrote a book about cyclic analysis.There is a lot of good information in the previous entrees and many threads discussing moving averages contain suggestions on using them. With 635 posts you're obviously not a newbie.Do the the work don't ask to be spoon fed. You looked at one chart. Whoopee.
     
    #30     Oct 10, 2015