The EMACloud Scan implements the EMACloud framework: a 15-minute strategy that trades reactions at yesterday's and this morning's key levels, but only in the direction of a confirmed EMA trend. It runs the whole watchlist and reports each break / reject / bounce setup with a Ripster-style trade box.
Open the EMACloud Scan →This is a members-only tab. The guide below is free to read; opening the live scanner requires a signed-in paid account.
Three EMAs define the regime: bullish when stacked 13 > 48 > 200
and fanned out, bearish when 200 > 48 > 13, and bunched
(no clear trend) otherwise. The fan is the trend filter.
A setup only counts when the 15-minute candle closes through the level on its body — not on a wick poke. That is what turns a level touch into an EMACloud signal.
PMH/PML breaks act as secondary confirmation.
A core EMACloud rule is never trade against the trend. So a directional signal only prints when the EMA fan agrees with it — no buys in a confirmed bear fan, no sells in a confirmed bull fan (neutral/bunched fans are allowed). When all three ingredients line up — the level reaction, the EMA trend, and the 15-minute body close — all three ingredients are present. Level reactions in a neutral fan still show.
A flag is drawn when price pulls back to the 13 EMA without closing clearly through it, then breaks the line running from the pole to the latest lower high. The break candle turns blue and the flag line is drawn dashed — solid where the setup went on to trade, faded where it did not.
Flags are detected only in the direction of the trend: a bull flag needs the fan stacked 13 > 48 > 200 and fanned out, which is exactly the test behind the trend badge, so a flag can never contradict the header. The flag must also slope against the trend (0.02–0.60 ATR per bar, so neither a flat rectangle nor a vertical sell-off counts) and price must close beyond the 13 EMA on the break.
On this tab flags are context only: they mark how price arrived at a level, and they do not fire signals of their own. That is also why there is no over-extension filter here. The 2-minute tab, which trades its flags, skips one forming on a move that has already run — but suppressing a drawing for that reason only hides what price did.
A ★ marks an A+ setup: the EMA fan agrees with the signal’s direction — 13 > 48 > 200 and fanned out for a buy, the mirror for a sell. That is EMACloud’s own definition, all three ingredients lining up at once. Level reactions in a neutral fan still print, without the star.
What it is worth, measured over a year on 20 tickers: A+ signals run −0.06R against −0.10R for the rest — a separation of +0.04R at 1.7 standard errors, on 45% of signals. Suggestive rather than established, and both sides are still negative, so treat the ★ as the framework’s own quality test rather than a promise. It does not change the entry, the stop or the targets, and it does not rank a setup above another in the Trade Ideas pane.
The B/S marks EMACloud’s entry: the pullback to the 13 EMA. A break, reject or bounce confirmed on the body arms the setup; the signal fires when a wick comes back to the 13 EMA within eight bars. The setup is abandoned if price closes clearly through the EMA, if the trend turns against it, or if the pullback never comes — which happens to about half of all confirmed setups, so the tab stays quiet on days that break and never look back. The stop sits past the level and the 13-EMA with a small buffer, and targets are the next key levels (with measured-move fallbacks).
Because the entry waits, risk is tighter than entering the confirming bar — a median of about one ATR, against 1.6 for the confirmation — so the same target sits further away in R. Over a year the two entries score the same (−0.09R against −0.08R per signal), on half as many trades.
All the setup math stays on 15-minute — that's the strategy. A 5-minute view is available purely to time the pullback entry: it shows 5-minute price with its own 5-minute EMA fan, and overlays the 15-minute levels, signals and trade box. The trend badge stays labeled (15m) so the governing regime is unambiguous, and a 5-minute poke through a level is not a confirmed signal.
Every ticker with its EMA trend, the latest signal (with ★ for A+ and how many bars ago), and the nearest level. Click a row to load its chart. Defaults to SPY.
The 15-minute (or 5-minute) chart with the 13/48/200 EMAs, PDH/PDL zones and PMH/PML lines, B/S pills (★ = A+) and a trade box for recent signals.
Each scenario graded on T1-before-stop: watchlist win rate, best setup, per-scenario win rate / reward-to-risk / edge, an A+ (EMA-aligned) row, and long/short splits.
Rule-based ideas from the live signal, each with a Risk Graph button that pre-fills the trade.
Related scanners: the Daily Levels tab for a star-rated daily plan, the RipsterCloud Scan for trend-pullback entries, and the MarketCipher Scan for momentum waves. See them all on the Help hub.
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