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4/15/2025 9:12:51 AM

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Section 4: President & Congress
Subject: Happy Liberation Day! Msg# 1223755

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Tom Hemmick Forum Leader

Joined 7/21/2005

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Jim Matthews (Read)

Joined 6/10/2008

(You likely know the following background)

Some folks prefer seeing the actual indices, instead of the smoothed averages of that posted chart. Hourly and/or Daily closings seem the most visited, and most seen on TV.

But on-line, folks can make their choice to see charts of hourly, daily, 5 days, 3 months, YTD, Yearly, 3 yrs, 5 yrs. etc. Smoothed averages are likely less visited.

And the monthly reports issued by brokers generally show month-end numbers, closing prices for an individual's stock holdings.

Here's an on-line example: Click Here

For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where:
Here's the SP500 . Still has a ways to go to turn the trend around...

Image below from Jim Matthews - Image Title: SP500 as of 04/14/25 Uploaded: 4/15/2025
Image Info: Are We out of the woods yet?

The green lines are the (John) Bollinger bands +/- 2 standard deviations from the 20-day simple moving average of the daily closing price. Generally, 97% of the price action happens between them. Of course, that varies with volatile stocks or in volatile markets, like we have presently.

Thick yellow line is the 200-day simple moving average.

Purple is the 1000-day simple moving average.

Closer to the price are the 10-day (yellow) and 20-day (red) exponential moving averages. They are weighted so that the most recent prices have more influence on the average. they are useful to shorter-term traders.

The 50-day simple moving average is in orange. It is considered the institutional line-in-the sand.

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