This indicator is a moving average that shows the trend of the price, the periods means that number of candles is averaged from the one that is currently, backwards. In the case of this apple chart, there are two average to show that the shorter period approaches candles, Yellow line (9 periods) and the blue line of the average of 26 periods.
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