EUR/USD Trend Breakout Strategy with EMA Alignment and Pullback Entry

Summary

This strategy description presents a long-only EUR/USD setup on the four-hour chart. It requires the 21-, 40-, and 100-period exponential moving averages to be ordered upward and rising. A candle must dip below the fastest average and close back above it, while also meeting bullish candle conditions. The strategy then places a buy stop at the prior bar’s high during a specified time window, with a stop loss based on the signal candle’s range and a profit target set at one and a half times that distance.

The author reports that tests failed on 15-minute and one-hour charts, while the four-hour EUR/USD long configuration worked better; shorts were less effective. For an hourly variant, the author says to use a sell limit instead of a buy stop, without providing further rules. No quantified performance statistics or test methodology are supplied, and the favorable equity-curve comment is anecdotal. Results may depend on market period, execution assumptions, and instrument settings.

Key ideas

• The described setup is a long-only EUR/USD strategy on a four-hour timeframe.
• It uses rising, ordered EMAs and a bullish pullback-and-recovery candle pattern.
• Entry is a stop order at the previous bar’s high, with a range-based stop and 1.5-to-1 target distance.
• The author reports weaker results on shorter timeframes and for short positions, but gives no quantified evidence.

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