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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
+8.1%
Touch Events
806

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%2821.4078.600
2.0%4630.4069.600
3.0%6237.1062.900
4.0%7841590
5.0%9949.5050.500
6.0%11958420
8.0%16963.9035.500.60
10.0%20568.3030.701