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

In today's edition of Play Smart, we look at a useful chart from instructor Erik J. Barzeski that shows the perfect speed for ...

The chart above is an example of a simple moving average on a stock chart of Google Inc. (GOOG). The blue line represents the stock price, while the orange line represents the 50-day moving average.

The simple moving average, or SMA, is one of the most common pieces of technical data that investors rely on. In the case of the 200-day SMA, it shows you the stock’s average price over the past ...

Interactive Chart for Dow Jones Industrial Average Fu (^DJIAFTR), analyze all the data with a huge range of indicators.

I find it is usually helpful to start with a definition and I'll use the one I have provided in the past: "The blue line in the chart shows the "Average Investor Allocation to Equities".