GlossaryBy Sverre MoeUpdated 2026-07-21
What is the Stance EMA?
What is the Stance EMA?
The Stance EMA is a 9-session exponential moving average of the daily Stance score. Stance itself can move several points in a single session on a sharp macro print or a wide breadth swing; the EMA smooths that daily noise into a slower line, so you can tell a genuine shift in market regime from a one-day whipsaw.
It is not a separate signal with its own weight or formula beyond the smoothing, and it does not feed back into how Stance itself is calculated. It exists purely as a reading aid: the dashed line drawn underneath the solid daily Stance line on the /stance chart, and the reference point the chart's hover tooltip shows alongside each session's raw score.
How tickerstance computes and shows it
The EMA runs over a 9-session window, computed from the same daily Stance series that produces the headline score. A wide gap between the raw score and its EMA is itself informative: it means the current print is moving faster than the recent trend, in either direction, and is worth a second look before treating a single day's read as a new regime.
As of the July 20, 2026 close, Stance printed 32.4 while its EMA sat at 43.6, an 11.2-point gap. The raw score had been falling faster than its own 9-session trend, which is exactly the divergence the smoothing exists to surface: not a data error, but a live illustration of how far a single session can outrun the slower trend underneath it.
Related
- Stance
The raw daily 0-100 score the EMA is smoothing.
- Market Regime
How the four subscores compose into Stance, and how to read a regime shift.
- Live chart
See today's Stance score against its EMA on the same chart.