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Moving Averages (SMA / EMA)
A smoothed average of a stock's closing price over a set period (e.g. 20, 50, or 200 days), used to identify the underlying trend beneath day-to-day noise.
A Simple Moving Average (SMA) weights every day in the period equally; an Exponential Moving Average (EMA) weights recent days more heavily, so it reacts faster to new price moves. StockPulse shows both — SMA20/50/200 and EMA12/26.
Price trading above its 50-day and 200-day moving averages is generally read as an uptrend, below as a downtrend; the 50/200-day pair specifically feeds into the site's signal score.