Moving Average Filters
Trend first, patterns second — these filters define whether a coin is even worth screening.
The 🔑 prerequisite: Rising 50 EMA
The 50-day average is the trend backbone of this screener. When it is sloping upward, the coin is in an established uptrend and every other signal — Fresh Bulls, Pocket Pivots, squeezes — carries more weight. When it is falling, the same signals fail far more often.
That is why this filter is marked with the 🔑 in the filter card: switch it on first, then layer everything else on top.
The other trend switches
New Rising 50
The 50-day average just turned up in the last few days after falling or flat-lining. Catches trend changes at the earliest stage — fresher but less proven than an established Rising 50.
10>20 EMA Rising
The 10-day average is above a rising 20-day average — short-term momentum aligned with the swing trend. The same 10/20 relationship on Bitcoin drives the market-wide RISK ON / RISK OFF signal on the Breadth & Sentiment page.
50>200 EMA
Golden-cross alignment: the 50-day average above the 200-day. The classic definition of a long-term uptrend — slow to change, which is exactly its value.
Above 1Y Avg (365)
Price is above its 365-day average — roughly the coin's average price over the past year. Above it, longer-term holders are in profit and the coin is in a long-term uptrend zone; below it, rallies tend to run into overhead supply.
The pullback playbook
How to trade it
- Entry
- In an uptrend (Rising 50 EMA), wait for price to pull back to the 10 or 20 EMA (Away-from-EMA near 0) and buy the bounce — the day it turns back up, ideally with a strong close (high DCR).
- Stop
- Below the pullback's swing low. Because entry is at the average rather than the highs, the stop is naturally close — that's the whole edge of buying pullbacks over breakouts.
- Works best when
- The pullback is quiet (shrinking volume, small candles) and BTC is RISK ON — check the Breadth & Sentiment page before adding longs; regime beats any single-coin signal.
- Avoid when
- Price is extended far above the 20 EMA (chasing), or the 'pullback' is happening on heavy volume with weak closes — that's distribution, not a rest.
Scan recipes
Pullback scan
- 1🔑 Rising 50 EMA on
- 2Away from 10 EMA % slider → −3 to +3
→ Uptrending coins sitting right at their short-term average — bounce candidates instead of chases.
Fresh trend
- 1New Rising 50 on
- 210>20 EMA Rising on
→ Trends that just turned, with short-term momentum already aligned — earliest-stage candidates.
Away from EMA % sliders
Five sliders (10 / 20 / 50 / 200 / 365 EMA) filter by how far price is from each average, in percent. Near 0 = sitting right at the average; large positive = extended above it; negative = below it.
- Pullback hunting: Rising 50 EMA on, Away from 10 EMA between roughly −3% and +3% — uptrending coins resting at their short-term average instead of chasing extended ones.
- Avoiding chases: cap Away from 20 EMA at, say, +15% to drop coins that have already run hard.
- Long-term value zone: Away from 365 EMA slightly above 0 finds coins just reclaiming their yearly average.