The Triple Exponential Moving Average (TEMA) is a lag-reducing filter that combines a single, double, and triple EMA. Unlike a simple triple smoothing (which would be incredibly slow), TEMA uses a weighted combination of the three to cancel out the lag, resulting in an indicator that hugs price action tighter than a spandex cycling short.
Introduced by Patrick Mulloy in *Technical Analysis of Stocks & Commodities* (Jan 1994), "Smoothing Data With Less Lag." Mulloy's goal was to replace the standard moving averages in MACD and other indicators to reduce the delay in signal generation.
Because of the aggressive weighting, TEMA converges (warms up) faster than a standard EMA. While an EMA takes $\approx 3.45(N+1)$ steps to converge to 99.9%, TEMA stabilizes quicker due to the subtraction terms canceling out the initial error.
