Dual Moving Average Crossovers with MACD and Trailing Stops

Summary

This trend strategy combines a fast exponential moving average with two slower weighted moving averages. It looks for the fast average to cross both slower averages, while the MACD histogram must have the same directional sign: positive for a bullish signal and negative for a bearish one. Configurable profit targets, stop losses, and trailing stops manage exits. The listed defaults include a fast average period of 5, slow periods of 85 and 75, and standard MACD periods of 12, 26, and 9.

The document describes the approach and its intended risk controls, but it supplies no reported performance results. Its published backtest settings cover a brief period on BTC-USDT futures at a 15-minute interval; those settings alone do not establish profitability. The prose warns that choppy markets can trigger stops and that unsuitable parameters may cause excessive or missed trades. Despite the strategy's name, the source conditions also require both moving average crossovers and the MACD filter to align, which can constrain signal frequency.

Key ideas

• A fast EMA crossing both slower WMAs defines the directional crossover signal.
• The MACD histogram must agree with the signal direction before entry.
• Profit targets, fixed stops, and trailing stops are configurable exit mechanisms.
• Choppy price action and unsuitable parameter choices can undermine the approach.
• Published backtest settings are provided without performance statistics.

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