Every term is defined twice: once the way a filing would put it, and once the way somebody would explain it to you across a table. The second one is usually the one that sticks.
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Averaging price data to suppress short-term noise, as Heikin-Ashi does by blending each bar with the one before it.
It buys clarity by discarding information, and it flatters backtests badly — because the whipsaws it removed are exactly the ones that would have stopped you out live.
Converting an irregular inflow into a steady outflow by paying yourself a fixed amount.
The whole discipline of self-employed finance. The household never experiences the variation, so ordinary budgeting works again.
The average of the last N closing prices, plotted as a line.
Smoothing. Smoother always means slower — that trade-off has no escape.