{"id":12916,"date":"2010-09-11T18:00:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-11T22:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/?p=12916"},"modified":"2010-09-11T18:00:27","modified_gmt":"2010-09-11T22:00:27","slug":"forex-trading-systems-the-profitability-of-ema-crossovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2010\/09\/11\/forex-trading-systems-the-profitability-of-ema-crossovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Forex Trading Systems – The Profitability Of EMA Crossovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

By James Woolley<\/strong> – Many forex traders like to use technical indicators to help them trade, and one of the most effective ones is the exponential moving average, or EMA for short. This indicator indicates the trend for a particular period so when you use multiple EMAs with different settings, you get a great idea of where the market is heading.<\/p>\n

This is why EMA crossovers are one of the most popular ways to trade the forex markets. Basically when a shorter term EMA crosses through a longer term one on your price chart, this is often a great signal that the trend has changed. Therefore you should think about entering a new position in the same direction as this most recent crossover.<\/p>\n

I myself trade these crossovers a lot because they are a vital part of my trading system. The trick is to only trade them on the longer time frames.<\/p>\n

If you use them to take intraday positions, you will struggle to make consistent profits because not only do you have the spreads to contend with, but you will also find that you get lots of false crossovers that ultimately come to nothing. Plus you will often find that even the successful crossovers fizzle out fairly quickly on the 1 minute, 5 minute or 10 minute charts, for example.<\/p>\n

You’re much better off going up to the 4 hour or daily chart at the very least. That way you will have far fewer EMA crossovers, but the ones that do occur will often result in some big profits. Of course you will still get a few false crossovers, but the successful ones will generally more than make up for these losing ones.<\/p>\n

Anyway the point I want to make is that trading EMA crossovers is a very effective way of trading the forex markets. You can increase your chances of success even further by using one or two extra indicators to help find the very best high probability set-ups. For example I like to use the 5 and 20 period exponential moving averages along with the MACD and Smoothed Repulse indicators and this helps me find some excellent set-ups every week on the 4 hour chart.<\/p>\n

Ultimately you just have to test out different systems and find one that’s right for you. However I myself can definitely recommend you look into trading EMA crossovers because I’ve been trading very successfully this way for a good few years now.<\/p>\n

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By James Woolley – Many forex traders like to use technical indicators to help them trade, and one of the most effective ones is the exponential moving average, or EMA for short. This indicator indicates the trend for a particular period so when you use multiple EMAs with different settings, you get a great idea … <\/p>\n

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