STOCK GOODIES PLAYS OF THE WEEK

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The Rate-of-Change indicators were then smoothed with a weighted moving average. As its name implies, a weighted moving average puts more weight on recent data and less weight on older data. For example, a 3-period WMA would multiply the first data point by 1, the second data point by 2 and the third data point by 3. The sum of these three numbers is then divided by 6, which is the sum of the weightings (1 2 3), to create a weighted average. The table below shows a calculation from an excel spreadsheet.