Advance/Advance+Decline Ratio: Simple MovAvg (Breadth Adv/Dec Indicator)

Abbreviation: Advance/Decline+Decline Ratio: Avg
Category: Market Advance / Decline
Input Parameters:

Name Range Default
Advancing Issues
Declining Issues
Avg Periods Int >= 1 5

 
Calculation:

Avg(X, Avg Periods)

where
X = Advance/Advance+Decline Ratio(Advancing Issues, Declining Issues)

Advance/Advance+Decline Ratio represents Advance/Advance+Decline Ratio
Avg represents Simple Moving Average

 
Discussion:

This indicator attempts to smooth the Advance/Advance+Decline Ratio indicator by calculating its moving average. Since it uses a simple moving average (which gives equal importance to all the periods within the moving average’s time frame), this method of smoothing may cause more of a lag time than the exponential variant.
 

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