Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• SIMPLE MOVING AVERAGE
  
  The arithmetic mean or average of a series of prices over a period of time. The longer the period of time studied (that is, the larger the denominator of the average), the less impact an individual data point has on the average.
  
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