Scalping Strategy with EMAs, 25% Retracement Rule

A scalping strategy using 20 and 200 EMAs on a 2-minute chart to identify trend and entry points, aiming for 25% retracement profits.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: EMA Strategies

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: 2 minutes
  • Markets: Not specified, Any market with sufficient liquidity and volatility for scalping

Indicators used

  • EMA

Source video

Decoded from: La Estrategia Simple de Scalping Que Uso Cada Día by Whale Analytics — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:01 - Introduction to the scalping strategy
  • 1:00 - The novice error: chasing the whole movement vs. 25% profit
  • 1:53 - Why 25% retracement is key for professional scalpers
  • 3:39 - The perfect setup: 2-minute chart + 20 & 200 EMAs + double spatial separation
  • 5:33 - How to measure and always collect the 25% retracement
  • 9:01 - Discipline, 1% risk management, and accepting to leave money on the table

Strategy overview

Exponential moving averages are trend filters that weight recent prices more heavily, and on a 2-minute chart they are usually the first thing a scalper puts on screen. What makes this entry unusual is that the averages are not the point: the strategy is named for an exit rule — taking roughly a quarter of the move — and the moving averages exist mainly to decide whether a move is worth scalping at all before that rule is ever applied.

The source is Whale Analytics' Spanish-language video "La Estrategia Simple de Scalping Que Uso Cada Día", framed not as a discovery but as a daily routine. Its opening segment is diagnostic rather than instructional: it names chasing the entire movement as the novice error, and positions the partial-take rule as the thing that separates that habit from how it argues professional scalpers actually work. Only after that argument is made does the video reach its setup segment, where the 2-minute chart and a fast-versus-long-horizon average pair appear, with visible separation between the two lines treated as the condition that qualifies a move as scalpable.

The closing third stays behavioral: measuring the portion of the move to collect, sizing risk conservatively, and — explicitly — accepting that you will leave money on the table every time you follow the rule. That last point is the video's real teaching load, and it is the part most likely to be the difficulty in practice, since a fixed partial-take rule is trivial to state and uncomfortable to obey when a move keeps running. This page catalogs the strategy at concept level and points back to the source, where the measurement is demonstrated on charts.

Topics

scalping strategy · ema strategy · 2 minute strategy · trading strategy · pine script · tradingview strategy · technical indicators · day trading · moving average strategy · short term trading · retracement strategy · intraday strategy · forex scalping strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is a 25% retracement rule in scalping?

It is a partial profit-taking convention: instead of holding for the full extent of a move, the trader targets a defined fraction of it — here framed as around a quarter — and exits, accepting that the remainder of the move is forfeited by design.

Why do scalping strategies pair a fast EMA with a long-term one?

The fast average tracks the immediate move while the long-horizon average marks the broader trend context. On a 2-minute chart, the relationship between the two — including how far apart they sit — is commonly used to judge whether a short-term move has enough backing behind it to be worth trading.

What does this Whale Analytics video emphasize most?

Discipline over signal. The video spends its opening on why chasing the whole movement is a mistake and its closing on conservative risk sizing and accepting that you leave money on the table, with the chart setup sitting between those two arguments rather than leading them.

Is a fixed partial-exit rule suitable for every market condition?

Not automatically. A fixed fraction of the move behaves very differently in a quiet range than in a fast trend, so any rule of this kind is worth testing across varied conditions on historical intraday data before it is traded. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies like this one from video sources so you can evaluate them on TradingView.

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