people always want to play smart. the market is so obvious in the down trend (daily, not intra-day), you do not need a ema tell you. ema is delayed.
last week I made good money on crude 87/85 put, I know I may be wrong, but feel there is good odd there. crude is way below 50ema, to me, very obvious it is a sell. trend is my friend.
bear market has sharp quick rebound, that is typical. but you do not need bet on it.
90% people lose is because they do not follow the market, they try to be smart, they do not believe what they see, they believe their inner thinking.
the thinking in your mind is not reality world.
EMA is a delay signal, it is very reliable. most people do not know how to use it. when market is under 50days ema, do not mean sell on the market, just mean you need a sell strategy, for example, when it bounces to resistance, sell, or a bounce reversal sell, those are not counter-trend or fading. most people think sell into a bounce of a down trend is a phading, that is not.
since you are following the big trend. counter-trend the small trend, big money printed for you.
this strategy works well also in a range-band.
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I agree; However, there has been times when I've made money using this knowledge (not strategy).
Say the 50 crosses under the 200....fine, whatever, u sell you are probably a moron. But then, after it gets ENOUGH people all bearish, I wait for it to cross back up...then i've taken longs as people get trapped.
in bull markets, fading H&S's work pretty well.
i think most of TA is horrible, simplistic, and won't make you money, but fading what the new trader will do sometimes works.