Learn how to read a stock chart to make smarter, more calculated, and confident trading and investing decisions.

The single most important tool for technical analysis is the stock chart, created by plotting time series historical prices. Since moving averages are a measure of stock price, they can be ...

Moving averages can be calculated using daily closing prices, monthly prices, weekly prices, opening prices, or even intraday prices. The chart above is an example of a simple moving average on a ...

As a result, moving averages can be drawn as lines on stock charts — and some traders look to them for buying and selling signals. The chart below shows the price of Apple (AAPL) — one of the ...

Each has a positive but overbought weekly chart. This means that each is trading above its five-week modified moving average with their 12-week slow stochastic reading above 80.00, on a scale of ...