EMA Trend and Pullback Reclaim Rules for Intraday NQ Scalping

Summary

This intraday strategy seeks pullbacks that resume the prevailing direction. A long setup requires price above a trend EMA, a move below a faster EMA followed by a reclaim, and RSI above a threshold. Shorts reverse those conditions. An optional VWAP filter checks that price is on the corresponding side of VWAP, and a session filter can restrict entries to regular exchange hours. The description positions it for one-to-five-minute charts and NQ or MNQ instruments.

Exits use ATR-scaled stop and target distances, with an optional trailing stop; contract quantity is set as a fixed input. The listed defaults include a 100-period trend EMA, a 21-period fast EMA, and separate ATR multiples for stop and target. The document recommends backtesting and forward testing, but includes no strategy report or measured results. Its fixed contract setting does not adapt exposure to account equity or stop distance, and actual outcomes may vary with commissions, slippage, market conditions, and execution assumptions.

Key ideas

• The trend EMA sets directional bias, while a reclaim or loss of the fast EMA triggers a pullback signal.
• RSI thresholds and an optional VWAP condition filter long and short entries.
• A session filter can limit trading to the configured exchange-time window.
• ATR determines stop and target distances, with an optional trailing exit.
• The description gives no measured performance results and uses a fixed contract quantity input.

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