Your stock vs every MA.
Buy, sell, or neutral?

A single moving average tells you one thing about a stock. Five moving averages, taken together, tell you something more useful: where the price sits across every meaningful timescale at once. A stock that's 1% above its 5-day MA, 2% above its 20-day, and 8% above its 200-day is in a different regime than one that's 1% above the 5-day but below every longer MA. Most retail tools collapse that into a single number. We don't.

So we built the comparison. Pick a ticker. The tool reads off how far the current price sits from each standard MA (5, 10, 20, 50, 200) and finds every prior trading day where the same MA-distance pattern was at least as extended. From that matching set it computes the next-day return distribution, then classifies the result on a simple scale: STRONG BUY, BUY, NEUTRAL, SELL, STRONG SELL. One verdict, backed by every analog day in the historical record.

The MA Positioning tool is the answer to "where does this stock actually sit, and what usually happens next" without the chart-pattern guessing.

Pick a ticker from the pills (SPY, QQQ, IWM, AAPL, NVDA, TSLA, PLTR are pre-loaded; the More dropdown adds AMD, AMZN, GLD, GOOGL, META, MSFT, NFLX, SLV; or type any symbol). The Parameters sidebar surfaces two controls: Tomorrow's Forecast / Today's Forecast (anchor on today's close to forecast tomorrow, or yesterday's close to forecast today's intraday move) and the Distance from MAs preset row showing the ticker's current % distance next to each MA along with an All MAs button that requires every MA to clear the bar simultaneously.

The main panel returns a BUY / NEUTRAL / SELL signal pill at the top, then standard stat cards (Green Close %, Average Return, sample size), a next-day return distribution chart, and a collapsible occurrences log listing every historical day that matched the pattern.

Why each control matters

MA Positioning has fewer knobs than the backtest tools by design. The MA-distance snapshot is auto-detected from live data, the matching logic is deterministic, and the only real knob is which subset of MAs you want to scan against. The point is to surface a fast, defensible verdict, not let you over-fit a strategy.

Single MA presets (5, 10, 20, 50, 200)

Pick a single MA when you have a specific timeframe in mind. The 5-day MA fires on swing-trader timescales (a stretch above the 5-day means the last week has been one-sided). The 200-day fires on regime-change timescales (a deep stretch above the 200 is a real cyclical bull signal). Each preset shows you the ticker's exact current distance from that MA so you can see what level of extension is being matched.

All MAs (default)

The strictest scan. A historical day only counts if every standard MA (5, 10, 20, 50, 200) was at least as extended as today. This is much rarer than any single-MA match, but every hit represents a stock that was extended on every timescale simultaneously. If the All MAs scan returns zero matches, the tool auto-widens through subsets ([5,10,20,50] then [5,10,20] then [5,10] then [5] then [10]) and stops at the first rung that produces at least one match. The preset buttons re-highlight to show which MAs ended up driving the sample.

Tomorrow vs Today toggle

Tomorrow's Forecast uses today's close as the anchor and reads the next session's close-to-close return on every match. Today's Forecast uses yesterday's close as the anchor and reads today's open-to-close return on every match. The first answers "if I hold overnight, what happens?" The second answers "if I take an intraday position at the open right now, what happens?" Same data, different window.