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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
+10.1%
Touch Events
1172

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%4325.6072.102.30
2.0%6431.2067.201.60
3.0%954058.901.10
4.0%1174752.100.90
5.0%14952.30470.70
6.0%17659.1040.300.60
8.0%2396435.100.80
10.0%28968.2031.100.70