since this offended richard me copying this from another site i will just pull it down and people can look up their own answers to their questions,its just easier sometimes to copy and pasted something that anyone could find then have to type it out long hand witch i just dont have time for...sam/sharky

Technical Traders Guide to Computer Analysis of the Futures Markets [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover) A good into for beginners ...

see at amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Technical-Traders-Computer-Analysis-Futures/dp/1556234686/ref=sr_1_1/178-9314061-9323240?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1245060224&sr=1-1

And the ADXVMA is a Variable MA (Moving Average) constructed with an ADX-component, describing the current trendstrength - thats why this MA shows those nice flat-sections, when the trendstrength is falling.

the ADXVMA
is NOT the MA of the ADX and
it is NOT a Volume MA -ADX or what ever is going arround out there
max-td

Not sure if it's cool to repost content from other web sites without attribution? Of course this is a new forum so I'm not sure what the policy on that kind of thing is here...

https://www.forexrealm.com/technical-analysis/technical-indicators/average-directional-index.html

Especially since this is linking directly to one of their images, which takes their bandwidth, it seems like it's better to at least mention the source.

yeah i was up late and didnt feel like typing a whole page on what an adx is so i just copied it from some forex site who copied from something else...sam/sharky