Vladimir Ribakov breaks down moving averages for swing trading. Use the 20 and 50-period SMAs to find entry points, the 100-period to confirm trends exist, and the 200-period as your strongest support and resistance level. Price bouncing off these averages signals where to join a trade.
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What are the best moving averages for swing-term trading? Moving averages is one of the most reliable, useful, powerful indicators for swing traders aiming to capture market trends and for basically for several days, sometimes even weeks, maybe even beyond that. And usually the focus is on the longer-term timeframes such as 4-hour chart, daily chart. The focus on these timeframes allows the traders to identify longer-term swing-term trends and opportunities to join an ongoing trend. Also use the moving average as dynamic support and resistance Once again, to join already established developing trend. So once the moving average are aligned with the trend, every bounce of the moving average will be an opportunity to join a trend. So 20 and 50 simple moving averages are among the most useful one for the entries. Okay, so it's useful for spotting the trend direction and potential entry points with already ongoing established trend. While the higher moving averages such as 100 simple moving average will behave more as an indication and scan for real trends where we will be looking to join with the smaller moving averages. Another very, very— maybe even the most used and reliable moving average for the longer term is the 200 simple moving average. It's also used for shorter but mainly for the swing term and the longer term. It is much more reliable spotting ongoing long-term trends. It is very reliable as dynamic support and resistance and used by traders to find these levels. For more real-time trading education, complete trading courses, real-time trading opportunities, join our family, the Home Trader Club. The link is in the bio.
