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# SMA

​The SMA is found by dividing the sum of price closures in the specified period by the number of price closures. It works with simple arithmetic mean finding logic. Here all data entries have equal weight.

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P = Closing Price

n = Number of Periods

> SMA = (P1+P2+...Pn) / n