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koori said in December 1st, 2008 at 11:14 am

hi prince, you mentioned 20 MA is like a ceiling previously. how about 25 and 50 MA? what are their implications?

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CharlesMing said in December 1st, 2008 at 7:55 pm

hey koori. The thing about MA is, regardless of it being a support or resistance, it tells u the price people are willing to buy (support) or sell (resistance).

The longer the time frame, the stronger it is. 20MA represents 1 month of trading activity. Actually u can use any figure u want but my research (along with others) shows that 20 days is a good figure for short term. 50 and 100MA for mid term and 200MA for long term. Apart from resistance, the direction of the MA line also tells u the respective trend though it is lagging in nature.

So in short, 20 and 25 is about the same (though I prefer 20, but I do turn both on sometimes) and 50 is stronger than 20 while 100 and 200 is stronger than 50 and 20MA. Anything after 200MA is not really meaningful. The way I use 200MA too, is when the price falls below 200MA it is bear. Above it is bull. So when things turn bear, I will look to short (ride with trend) while if it is above, I will look to long. It is not the only way to see the trend of course but I thought I’d add that in :P

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