Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• VARIABLE-LENGTH MOVING AVERAGE
  
  A moving average where the number of periods selected for smoothing is based on a volatility measurement of price. Typically, the standard deviation of price is used to measure price volatility. The more volatile the price is, the shorter the number of periods used is for smoothing.
  
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