Public Overloads Shared Function SimpleMovingAverage( _
   ByVal s As Series, _
   ByVal elementValue As ElementValue, _
   ByVal lengthOfMA As Integer _
) As Series

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Dim s As Series Dim elementValue As ElementValue Dim lengthOfMA As Integer Dim value As Series   value = FinancialEngine.SimpleMovingAverage(s, elementValue, lengthOfMA)

public static Series SimpleMovingAverage( 
   Series s,
   ElementValue elementValue,
   int lengthOfMA
)

Parameters

s

A series where the first term is the most recent historical price, the second term is the previous historical price and so on.

elementValue

Specifies the particular element value (for example High, Low, Close or Open of the financial time series) which will be considered within this indicator evaluation. In particular, if you wish to use the element value high then you should pass the parameter High. In a similarly fashion if you wish to use the low, close or open, then you should pass the parameter Low, Close, Open, respectively.

lengthOfMA

The number of periods considered within the evaluation of the moving average for each of the periods on which it can be evaluated.

Return Value

Illustration

If we are considering a traded asset and the periods considered are days then by passing an array containing the closing daily prices of a given asset, and by choosing to use the 5-day moving average (i.e. passing a length of the MA of 5), then this method will evaluate the Moving Average (MA) for all days for which the closing price on that day and the four previous days is known.

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