Moving Average Excel Template

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y to explain the concept of moving average. The stock prices for the last 12 days are as follows:

Periodicity 5

Moving Average is calculated using the formula given below

Simple Moving Average = (A1 + A2 + …… + An) / n

Day Stock Price 5-Day Moving Average

1 30.5 -
2 30.6 -
3 30.35 -
4 29.7 -
5 28.1 24.23
6 29.25 23.75
7 30.25 23.48
8 30.9 23.46
9 31.05 23.70
10 32.15 24.29
11 32 24.87
12 31.5 25.22
13 25.34
Let us take the above example to predict the stock price on the 13 th day using 4- day weighted
moving average such that most recent to last weightages are 0.50, 0.30, 0.15 and 0.05.

W1 0.05
W2 0.15
W3 0.30
W4 0.50

Moving Average is calculated using the formula given below

Weightage Moving Average = (A1*W1 + A2*W2 + …… + An*Wn)

Day Stock Price 4-Day Moving Average

1 30.50 -
2 30.60 -
3 30.35 -
4 29.70 -
5 28.10 30.07
6 29.25 29.04
7 30.25 29.03
8 30.90 29.60
9 31.05 30.32
10 32.15 30.80
11 32.00 31.54
12 31.50 31.85
13 31.73
Let us take the above example to predict the stock price on the 13 th day using a 4-day exponential moving average.

Periodicity 5
Multiplying Factor 0.33

Moving Average is calculated using the formula given below

Exponential Moving Average = (C – P) * 2 / (n + 1) + P

Day Stock Price 4-Day Moving Average

1 30.50 -
2 30.60 -
3 30.35 -
4 29.70 -
5 28.10 26.05
6 29.25 26.74
7 30.25 27.57
8 30.90 28.47
9 31.05 29.28
10 32.15 29.87
11 32.00 30.63
12 31.50 31.09
13 31.22
ential moving average.