📊 Price Action · Dynamic S/R
9 and 21 EMA support/resistance
9 EMA and 21 EMA plotted on the chart. In uptrends, both act as dynamic support — buy pullbacks to the 21 EMA. In downtrends, both act as resistance — sell rallies.
Setup
- Chart: daily or 4-hour candles with EMA 9 (fast) and EMA 21 (slow)
- Uptrend regime: EMA 9 above EMA 21, both sloping up, price generally above both
- Downtrend regime: mirror — EMA 9 below EMA 21, sloping down, price below
Entry
Long (uptrend): buy on a pullback that touches or slightly wicks the EMA 21, confirmed by a bullish reversal candle (engulfing, hammer, pin bar). Short (downtrend): mirror at a rally to EMA 21.
Exit
Take profit at the prior swing high (long) / low (short). If the trend keeps extending, trail behind subsequent EMA 21 touches.
Stop-loss
Below the pullback low (long) or above the pullback high (short) that touched the EMA. Roughly 0.7-1×ATR.
When it works
- Clear trending market where EMAs act as consistent dynamic support/resistance
- Pullback touches are shallow (to EMA 21) — deeper pullbacks past both EMAs signal trend weakness
- Volume expands on the reversal candle at the EMA
When it fails
- Choppy market with EMAs tangled — no clean pullback behaviour
- Sharp counter-trend moves that slice through both EMAs
- Trading against the higher-timeframe trend
General trading rules that apply
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