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title: wma
description: A comprehensive guide about Weighted Moving Average (WMA), its special
  features, usage, inclusion of parameters like window lengths and offset. Also, providing
  an illustrative diagram about WMA.
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- Weighted Moving Average
- WMA
- n_length
- n_offset
- WMA parameters
- WMA usage
- WMA diagram
- window lengths
- offset
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A Weighted Moving Average puts more weight on recent data and less on past data. This is done by multiplying each bar’s price by a weighting factor. Because of its unique calculation, WMA will follow prices more closely than a corresponding Simple Moving Average.

### Usage

```python
wma [-l N_LENGTH] [-o N_OFFSET]
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Description | Default | Optional | Choices |
| ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- | ------- |
| n_length | Window lengths. Multiple values indicated as comma separated values. | 20, 50 | True | None |
| n_offset | offset | 0 | True | range(0, 100) |

![wma](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/46355364/154312618-43430406-97c1-4740-87be-2414de9a1c06.png)

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