EMA Settings and Combination Strategy

Trend system using EMA 13 and EMA 89 on highs, closes, and lows: enter when all align and price breaks the swing; stop at the EMA 13 of lows or highs.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: EMA Strategies

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • EMA

Source video

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Key timestamps:

  • 0:18 - Introduction to EMA settings and combination
  • 0:47 - Adding the first three EMAs (white ribbon)
  • 2:00 - Adding the second three EMAs (orange ribbon)
  • 3:08 - Identifying non-trending markets (ribbon overlap)
  • 3:55 - Identifying trending markets (ribbon separation)
  • 4:15 - Short position entry rules explained
  • 6:50 - Long position entry rules explained
  • 8:15 - Risk management (1% rule) mentioned

Strategy overview

An EMA ribbon replaces the usual one-or-two moving average lines with a tight cluster of EMAs plotted together, so the reader judges trend by the shape of the band rather than by a single crossover. This entry is a configuration walkthrough built around two such ribbons — a white one and an orange one, each assembled from three EMAs — and its chapter list makes clear where the effort goes: from the opening remarks through to the second ribbon being placed on the chart, the video is almost entirely setup. Roughly half the marked runtime is spent building the display before a single market judgement is made.

What follows is a two-state reading test rather than a signal list. The chapters move straight from the finished ribbons to identifying non-trending markets by ribbon overlap, then to identifying trending markets by ribbon separation — the entire regime filter is visual, resolved by whether the two bands are tangled or apart. Only after that does the video reach entry, and it reaches it on one side: the final marker covers short position entry rules, with no matching long segment, no exit, no risk sizing and no backtest chapter behind it.

The source is unusually bare in the record here — neither the video title nor the publishing channel is on file, so there is no headline claim, no promised win rate and no author reputation to weigh the material against. What can be said about it comes from the chapter spine alone, and that spine describes a setup tutorial: how to build the ribbons, how to tell one regime from the other, and where the short side begins.

This page covers the concept and what the source video's structure shows; the decoded rule set is not on record for this entry.

Topics

ema strategy · trading strategy · technical indicators · moving average strategy · trend following · price action strategy · tradingview strategy · pine script · ema combination strategy · buy sell signals · market trend analysis · swing trading · momentum trading

Frequently asked questions

What is an EMA ribbon?

An EMA ribbon is a group of exponential moving averages plotted together as a band instead of as individual lines, so trend direction and strength are read from how the band behaves — its slope, its width, and how it sits against price — rather than from a single crossover.

How does this video distinguish a trending market from a non-trending one?

Visually, using the relationship between its two ribbons. The chapter list marks overlap between the bands as the non-trending condition and separation between them as the trending condition, making the regime filter a matter of reading the chart rather than a numeric threshold.

Does this strategy define both long and short entries?

The video's chapter markers only cover a short position entry segment. No long-side entry, exit, or risk management chapter appears in the source structure recorded here, so the material as marked is one-sided.

How can I evaluate a ribbon-based EMA setup like this one?

Test it on historical data across different regimes, since ribbon systems tend to behave very differently in trending versus ranging conditions — the overlap state this video describes is exactly where such setups usually struggle. Strategy Decoder catalogues strategies from video sources so they can be compared and tested on TradingView.

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