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Clobianco
Copper Contributor
Nov 27, 2023

Trying to add moving average to scatterplot but the lines are showing up crazy

Trying to add a moving average line to the lowest daily stock price data. There are 1259 data points. When I enter it, it looks like this picture. What am I doing wrong? 

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    JoeUser2004
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    Clobianco 

     

    Your data needs to be in chronological order in cell range.

     

     

    The blue line is the data.  The red line is a moving average trendline.

     

    Even though the random data is plotted in chronological order, the "dots" are connected in the order that the data appears in the cell range.

  • Clobianco 

    Could you attach a small sample workbook demonstrating the problem (without sensitive data), or if that is not possible, make it available through OneDrive, Google Drive, Dropbox or similar?

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