Definitions of the Pacific Northwest region vary, and even Pacific Northwesterners do not agree on the exact boundary. A common conception of the Pacific Northwest includes the U.S. states of Oregon and Washington as well as the Canadian province of British Columbia.
A simple, or arithmetic, moving average that is calculated by adding the closing price of the security for a number of time periods and then dividing this total by the number of time periods. Short-term averages respond quickly to changes in the price of the underlying, while long-term averages are slow to react.
But all you really have to know is that a moving average line is just the average price of a stock over time. That's it. SEE ALSO: How you can use moving averages to identify Elliott Waves. I use two moving averages: the 10 period simple moving average (SMA) and the 30 period exponential moving average (EMA).