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Facebook, Inc. (FB) Stock Historical Prices & Data - Yahoo Finance
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Use the Yahoo Finance weekly stock data (the column Adj Close, on and before 10/16/2020) for Facebook,

  1. Calculate the 5-week simple moving averages.

  2. Make a forecast for the next week (10/19/2020 to 10/23/2020).

  3. Plot the original data and the moving averages on the sample graph.

Question (2)

Use the same data as in Question (1).

  1. Calculate the smoothed values by the exponential smoothing method. Choose alpha = 0.3 and the initial smoothed value to be the average of the first 6 values.

  2. Calculate the smoothed values by the exponential smoothing method. Choose alpha = 0.8 and the initial smoothed value to be the average of the first 6 values.

  3. Plot values in (a) and (b) along with the original values in one graph. Make a comment on your plots.

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