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Exponential Moving Average

Trading Term

The exponential moving average gives more weight to the latest prices and includes all of the price data in the life of the instrument. It is defined by taking:

EMA(i) = f * price(i) + (1-f)*EMA(i-1)

For the first period we take the simple average as above.

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