BASIC MOVING AVERAGE (MA)

Moving average (MA) is the basic indicators used to calculate the average value from price movements. In addition, the moving average (MA) can also be used to determine the price trend, particularly in the investment world there are two term forex trend up and trend down by the supreme court we can
know the trend is happening based on information from the MA. It said the trend up if the price is above the MA and if the price is below the MA line is called the trend is down.

There are 3 types of moving average (MA) :
SMA (Simple Moving Average)
EMA (Exponential Moving Average)
LWMA (Linear Weighted Moving Average)

Simple moving average (SMA)
This indicator serves to calculate the average value from price movements in a way that is very common. For example the value 5, 7, 8, 4 and 2, the value of his high school is (9 +4 +6 +8 +3) / 5 = 6 where the divider 5 is the number or amount of data calculated the average.Examples of how to implement and simple moving average settings on metatrader chart:
period : 24
MA method : simpel
Apply to : weighted Close (HLCC/4)

Period : the number of bar that will be taken value is calculated from the last candle
Shift : promoting the value of moving average a few candles in the input match
MA method : the method to be used in calculating the average value
Apply to : data candle that will be calculated the average value

Let more obvious simple moving average (SMA) with set apply to weighted close(HLCC/4) and period 24 this means will automatically calculate the average value HLCC / 4 of 24 pieces of the last candle. So every time a new candle is formed simple moving average (SMA) will calculate the average rating and the platform that we use everything is displayed as a line. because our time frame chart is (H1) then to see the value of simple moving average (SMA) 1 day then we will calculate the average of 24 candles in the time frame (TF H1)