A basic smoothing indicator (e.g. SMA, EMA) that averages past prices over a period. It filters out random noise to highlight trend direction. For example, a rising MA indicates an uptrend, a falling MA a downtrend. Forex robots often use moving average crossovers (e.g. fast MA crossing slow MA) to generate buy/sell signals, or MA slope to confirm trends. MetaTrader’s iMA() and cTrader’s Indicators.MovingAverage() (or specific SMA()/EMA()) provide these values.

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