IU EMA Channel Strategy

IU EMA Channel Strategy at a glance

Kind of rule	Breakout
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	EMA, value when
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Result	no finished try; every run errored or timed out
Page updated	2026-11-08

IU EMA Channel Strategy backtest results, every cell

There is no cloud of cells to draw. The frame below says why.

How IU EMA Channel Strategy works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It buys when price pokes above a recent high, and it bets on a fall when price pokes under a recent low. It is wrong often. It pays for those false starts with the few times price keeps going. How far back it looks decides how many pokes it takes. The next paragraph is this particular rule, which can be narrower than the group.

It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices. It buys when the close crosses above the 100-period EMA of the high and no position is open. It can also enter the other way. That condition is in the list below. When it enters, it also sets a stop or a target, so a trade can close without a new signal.

The author did not set a size, so each trade uses whatever amount the code assumes. It holds one trade at a time.

The exact condition, from the code

Same rule, translated from the code, in the author's names. You can skip this list if the paragraph above was enough.

• Enters long when the close crosses above the 100-period EMA of the high and no position is open.
• Enters short when the close crosses below the 100-period EMA of the low and no position is open.
• Places a stop at the previous low when a long position is open and the previous position size equals 0 last happened, a target at (((the average entry price − long stop) × RTR = (2)) + the average entry price) when a long position is open.
• Places a stop at the previous high when a short position is open and the previous position size equals 0 last happened, a target at (the average entry price − ((short stop − the average entry price) × RTR = (2))) when a short position is open.

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	EMA, value when
A second chart speed	No. It uses one chart speed only.
Only at certain hours	No.
Adding to a trade	It holds one trade at a time.
How much it trades	The author did not set a size, so each trade uses whatever amount the code assumes.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 0.02 percent per side.

Default settings

The test used the defaults in the middle column. Nothing was turned to help a coin.

Setting	Default	Group
RTR =	2
EMA Lenght =	100

How the backtest was run

Every strategy was tried the same way, on the settings the author published.

The years are October 2021 to June 2026. The prices are from Bybit, for 13 widely traded coins, mostly on hourly, 4-hour and daily charts, with some faster charts. That was 47,242 tries. The window stored in the files is 2021-09..2026-06.

599 rules produced a finished try. A rule that finished above zero on at least 12 cells, before any fee, was tried again with a fee of 0.12 percent per side. Only buys are counted in that second try. 273 rules got it.

The method, the aggregate results and a downloadable table are on the study page. What the desk does with the results beyond these pages is its own.

It was one of the over 600 rules in the screen, but every try errored or timed out, so it has no result. That is a problem running this script, not a finding about the market.

How to read the result

How to read the number

There is no finished result on this page. A try that did not finish is not a finding about the market.

What this does not show

The useful question is what the false starts cost. Count the trades, not the one that kept going.

There is no cell to single out, and this note does not invent one. Other years, another exchange, or another fee would be a different measurement.

Questions about IU EMA Channel Strategy

Words used on this page

Backtest

The rule was tried on old prices. No real money moved.

Cell

One coin on one chart speed. Bitcoin every 4 hours is one cell. Bitcoin once a day is another.

Chart speed

How often a new price bar is drawn. 15m means every 15 minutes, 1h means hourly, 4h means every 4 hours, 1D means once a day.

Fee, per side

A cost taken each time the rule trades. Per side means once on the way in and once on the way out.

Median

Line the cells up from the biggest loss to the biggest gain. The median is the middle one. Half the cells did better and half did worse.

Drawdown

The deepest fall from a high point along the way, as a percent of the account at that high.

Above zero

The account finished with more than it started.

The indicators IU EMA Channel Strategy uses

Each has its own page: what it measures, how it is read, where it misleads.

• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads

"IU EMA Channel Strategy" was published on TradingView by its author, under the author's own license. This page is an independent reading of those rules and of what they did on these old prices. It is not written with the author, and it is not a recommendation. Not every detail survives the translation onto this page, so read the original before you rely on it.