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EMA Support

Best touch threshold: 10.0% — holds 68% of the time

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Dynamic-support touches at the 50-EMA - hold-vs-breach forward returns by threshold band.

Best Threshold
10.0%
Hold Rate
68%
Current vs EMA
+6.9%
Touch Events
1182

When to run this study

Run when price is approaching or recently touched a major moving average from above. Useful for gauging support probability at the 50-week EMA. Sweep the touch threshold to find the historically strongest approach zone. Switch to daily mode to assess shorter-term EMA levels.

Historical results

Threshold Sweep — Hold Rate & Forward Returns

Touch ThresholdNHeld %Breached %Pending %
1.0%4325.6074.400
2.0%6431.2068.800
3.0%9540600
4.0%11747530
5.0%14953470
6.0%17759.3040.100.60
8.0%24364.20350.80
10.0%29468311