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I'll indulge myself and be pedantic.
While 20dma is a handy guide I've never heard it mentioned as a "key" indicator. Usually the 50dma and 200dma are given more importance. For example the first and only chart I've looked at for a comparison on this 'theme' was the stock I have the most interest in, which is Codan (CDA). Looking at that you can see that over two and a half years CDA has been in a bullish trend, interrupted only once, but the chart has crossed the 20dma heaps of times. Except for the one interruption mentioned, the price usually retreats when the 'spread' between the rising 20dma and the rising 50dma widens significantly after which it 'corrects' to somewhere near the 50dma.
To sum up, crossing the 20dma in itself has not been a big deal - not in this one bull trend example anyway
While 20dma is a handy guide I've never heard it mentioned as a "key" indicator. Usually the 50dma and 200dma are given more importance. For example the first and only chart I've looked at for a comparison on this 'theme' was the stock I have the most interest in, which is Codan (CDA). Looking at that you can see that over two and a half years CDA has been in a bullish trend, interrupted only once, but the chart has crossed the 20dma heaps of times. Except for the one interruption mentioned, the price usually retreats when the 'spread' between the rising 20dma and the rising 50dma widens significantly after which it 'corrects' to somewhere near the 50dma.
To sum up, crossing the 20dma in itself has not been a big deal - not in this one bull trend example anyway
