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200 day sma

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  • Started 5 months ago by jwitty1
  • Latest reply from roughbert

  1. jwitty1
    Member

    Does anyone know of a web site where you can just enter a ticker symbol and get the current accurate 200 day sma or for that matter 50 day ...etc?? I have gone to three sites and gotten different values for the 200 day sma for symbol SPY..Just plain and simple numbers no charts, graphs..etc

    Posted 5 months ago #

  2. roughbert
    Member

    Which three sites was that?

    I have noticed variations between broker's closing prices, most brokers seem to be so busy these days that the volume is affecting their system's reliability and accuracy.

    Posted 5 months ago #

  3. jwitty1
    Member

    freestockcharts.com....SPY 200day sma is 95.77
    stockcharts.com........SPY 200day sma is 90.50
    Yahoo Finance..........SPY 200day sma is 91.34

    Which is right???

    The 200day sma for any security is hard to find without analyzing charts and graphs...I wish there was a reliable site where you can just punch in a symbol and get the moving averages

    Posted 5 months ago #

  4. Donato
    Member

    I use a "professional" trading platform and the 200 day sma for SPY is 91.34. That being said, the more I study charts (on my platform), the more errors I find. Though I have found Yahoo Finance to be exceptional in it's accuracy.

    Posted 5 months ago #

  5. roughbert
    Member

    is the 200-day SMA the same as the mean closing price over the last 200 trading days?

    Posted 5 months ago #

  6. Donato
    Member

    Hi Rough . . .
    In the sciences, "mean" is the same thing as "average". But I have never heard a trader use the word in that manner.

    Posted 5 months ago #

  7. roughbert
    Member

    OK. Wikipedia seems to agree with me. But I just dug out Google's history for SPY and cannot get a similar figure.

    Posted 5 months ago #

  8. Donato
    Member

    Hi Rough . . .
    I'm sure glad Wikipedia agrees with you.

    Does www.investopedia.com agree with you also?

    Be sure to let us know what you are talking about some day . . .

    Posted 5 months ago #

  9. roughbert
    Member

    Donato, what I meant was that I could not get a 200-day MA out of Google's historical closing prices which was even in the same range as those noted above for SPY, which is why I asked the question above about how the MA was calculated. No doubt I'm doing something wrong, but there has not been time to look closer. My apologies for being obscure!

    Yes, the 'pedias line up nicely on the MA, thanks.

    Posted 5 months ago #

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