I'm currently trying to improve my technical analysis skills using TradingView. While playing around with the MACD oscillator I noticed that there is a *Simple MA(Oscillator)* option.

As seen below:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xOPZt.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/xOPZt.jpg)

I get the following results when selecting or unselecting the option

With the *Simple MA(Oscillator)* selected:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k1LnS.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/k1LnS.jpg)

Without the *Simple MA(Oscillator)* selected:

[![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J7UpI.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/J7UpI.jpg)

as you can see it changes the MCAD graph quite drastically.

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**Question:**
Could anyone please explain to me what this feature does?

Thank you very much in advance!