SimpleMovingAverage

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class backtide.indicators.SimpleMovingAverage(period=14)

Simple Moving Average (SMA).

The arithmetic mean of the last n closing prices. Used to smooth short-term fluctuations and identify the direction of a trend. Useful for trend identification, support/resistance levels, and crossover strategies (e.g., golden cross / death cross).

Formula:

\[SMA_t = \frac{1}{n} \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} C_{t-i}\]

where \(C_t\) is the closing price at time \(t\) and \(n\) is the period. Read more on Wikipedia.

Parameters	period : int, default=14 Look-back window length.
Attributes	acronym : str Short ticker-style acronym. name : str Human-readable indicator name.

See Also

BollingerBands

Bollinger Bands (BB).

ExponentialMovingAverage

Exponential Moving Average (EMA).

WeightedMovingAverage

Weighted Moving Average (WMA).

Methods

compute	Compute the indicator on a dataset.
description	Short explanation of what the indicator measures.

method backtide.indicatorscompute(data)

Compute the indicator on a dataset.

Parameters	data : np.ndarray | pd.DataFrame | pl.DataFrame Historical OHLCV data.
Returns	np.ndarray | pd.Series | pl.Series | pd.DataFrame | pl.DataFrame The computed values. For multi-output indicators (e.g., upper and lower bounds), return a 2d structure.

method backtide.indicatorsdescription()

Short explanation of what the indicator measures.

Returns

str The description.