20 EMA Support, Camarilla R3, VIX

Scalp Sensex expiry day with this intraday strategy using 20 EMA support bounces, Camarilla R3 pivots, and India VIX for confluence. Learn entry, exit, and risk

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: EMA Strategies

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: Intraday
  • Markets: Sensex (Indian Stock Market Index), Options (Sensex Expiry)

Indicators used

  • 20 EMA (Exponential Moving Average)
  • Camarilla R3 Pivot Level
  • India VIX (Volatility Index)

Source video

Decoded from: Sensex Expiry Day Scalping: Trading the 20 EMA Support Setup [Live Trades] by TRADESKOOL — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:08 - Introduction to 20 EMA support trade
  • 0:28 - Price action pattern: cross above 20 MA, retrace, support
  • 0:45 - Camarilla R3 and 20 MA pullback
  • 1:15 - Entry at 200, exit at 250 (50 point trade)
  • 1:50 - Re-entry at 205 level
  • 2:05 - Partial profit booking at 225
  • 2:40 - VIX cooling off as a reason for call entry
  • 3:00 - Final exit at 249

Strategy overview

A 20 EMA support setup treats the twenty-period exponential moving average as a moving floor that a trend keeps returning to, so pullbacks into it become the entry zone rather than a warning. What separates this entry from the generic version is the venue and the day: it is scalping on the Sensex during an expiry session, an environment where premium decay and index-level whipsaw compress everything into a few decisive minutes and where the operator has to decide in seconds whether a retrace is a rest or a reversal.

The stack the video works with is three-layered but asymmetric. The 20 EMA is the line being defended; the Camarilla R3 pivot is a fixed level calculated from the prior session that can land near the average and turn a soft area into a confluence; and India VIX is not used as a numeric trigger at all but watched qualitatively, as a read on whether volatility is cooling off enough for a long-side pullback to hold. The opening minute of the clip sketches the sequence in the same order a screen-reader would see it — price crossing above the average, a retrace back into it, and then the question of whether it holds.

What follows is not a rules chapter. "Sensex Expiry Day Scalping: Trading the 20 EMA Support Setup [Live Trades]" from TRADESKOOL runs as a live tape: entry, a re-entry after the first trade closes, and a partial profit booking, narrated as they happen rather than specified in advance. No formal rule set was extracted from it, so this page stands on the concept and the source context — the video is a record of the setup being traded, not a specification of it, and the exit logic in particular exists only as what the trader did in that session.

Topics

trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · technical indicators · sensex trading strategy · options trading strategy · intraday strategy · scalping strategy · 20 ema strategy · camarilla pivots · india vix · nifty options expiry strategy · ema support resistance · sensex expiry scalping

Frequently asked questions

What is a 20 EMA support setup?

It is a pullback approach that treats the twenty-period exponential moving average as dynamic support in an uptrend: instead of entering on the crossover itself, the trader waits for price to retrace into the average and looks for it to hold before taking the long side.

What does the Camarilla R3 pivot add to a moving-average pullback?

Camarilla pivots are levels calculated from the previous session's high, low and close, so R3 is a fixed reference that does not move with price. When it sits near a rising 20 EMA, the two produce a confluence zone — one static level and one dynamic one pointing at the same area.

Why would an intraday trader watch India VIX on an expiry day?

India VIX measures expected volatility in the Nifty options market and is commonly used as a background condition rather than an entry signal. On expiry sessions, whether volatility is expanding or cooling off changes how far a scalp is likely to run and how violently a pullback can overshoot support.

Does this page contain the exact entry and exit rules?

No. The source is a live-trade recording rather than a rules lesson, and no formal rule set was extracted from it, so Strategy Decoder catalogues the concept, the indicator stack and the session context instead of a mechanical specification. Anyone wanting to trade a 20 EMA support scalp would need to define the retrace tolerance, stop and exit themselves and backtest them on intraday data.

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