InvestorHubFx Navigator has defined the following setups for Strong Buy to Strong Sell in its trend summary.  

– Price is higher than the fast MA and medium MA is higher than slow MA, then it is Strong buy. 

– Price is lower than the fast MA and medium MA is higher than the slow MA, then it is Buy. 

– Price is lower than the fast MA and medium MA is lower than the slow MA, then it is Strong Sell. 

– Price is higher than the fast MA and medium MA is lower than the slow MA, then it is Sell. 

If you click on a symbol’s name a new chart is going to pop-up with the InvestorHubFx Trend indicator that displays the 3 MAs from the trend settings. This way you’ll be able to see the MAs you have selected. The slow MA is painted with 4 different colors in order to help you identify the signal from the specific bar. 

– Dark Green for the Strong Buy signal 

– Light Green for Buy 

– Orange for Sell 

– Red for Strong Sell 

This will help you understand better if a combination of MAs is helpful for the selected symbol and if it can provide useful info about when to enter (or exit) the market. 

Short-term moving averages crossing above longer-term moving averages is generally seen as bullish and short-term moving averages crossing below long-term moving averages is generally seen as bearish. 

InvestorHubFx Marketwatch/Trend displays the trend in the preferred time frame. Its default settings are the following: 

MT4 

– Fast MA period: 14 

– Medium MA period: 50 

– Slow MA period: 200 

MT5 

– Fast MA period: 20 

– Medium MA period: 50 

– Slow MA period: 200 

Traders can change the settings by the Settings’s box or by clicking on F7 and adjusting the parameters there. 

SMAs’ default settings 

– If the current symbol’s price is higher than the fast MA (e.g. MA20), then its box is green, otherwise it’s red. 

– If medium MA (e.g. MA50) is higher than slow MA (e.g. 200), then its box is green, otherwise it’s red. 

Moving averages are one of the oldest and most commonly used technical indicators. They have become a staple part of many trading strategies because they’re simple to use. In a few words, they “smooth out” fluctuations to help you distinguish a trend. Mainly, traders are using the following 3 types of MAs.

By clicking F7 or right clicking on the chart and clicking on the InvestorHubFxNavigatorEA, traders can select Moving Average type among “Simple”, “Exponential”, “Smoothed” and “Linear weighted”.

Moving average trading refers to the practice of systematically buying and selling whenever the price crosses its average. The idea is that prices move in trends such that at each point in time the price is either in an uptrend or in a downtrend. An uptrend is defined as when the price is above its moving average and a downtrend is defined as a period where the price is below its moving average.

For example, the 5-day SMA is calculated by getting the closing price over the last 5 days, summing it and dividing it by 5. When plotted on a chart, the SMA appears as a line which approximately follows the price action – the shorter the time period of the SMA, the closer it will follow the current price action. The 33-day SMA is calculated the same way.