Market Signals

Where the 9/21 EMA trend sits on four timeframes at once — 4-hour, daily, weekly and monthly — across every liquid market on the exchange. A market is listed only when at least three of the four agree. Bullish and bearish readings are shown separately, and the entire rule is published below: there is nothing behind it you cannot check yourself.

Illustration of a signal board: a candlestick chart with entry, stop and target levels marked.
Read this before you read the board. These are observations, not recommendations. Nothing here is a suggestion to buy, sell or hold anything, and no result is promised. The entry, stop and target levels shown are the mechanical output of a scan, published so a reading can be understood and checked — they are not trade instructions, they are not sized to anyone's account, and acting on them is entirely your own decision. The grades describe only how many timeframes currently agree; they are not probabilities, expected returns or a track record. This rule has not been backtested, and moving-average alignment is a lagging description of the past, not a forecast. Prices here are spot markets; acting on a bearish reading means shorting elsewhere, where losses can exceed the amount you put in. Most people should not trade this way at all. Full disclaimer →
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What the board is leaning toward

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Bullish and bearish shown separately

Bullish readings (long side)

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Markets where the weight of current evidence leans upward. This list is judged on its own; it is not a ranking against the bearish list below.

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Bearish readings (short side)

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Markets where the weight of current evidence leans downward. Acting on a bearish reading usually means shorting or using derivatives — a materially riskier activity than buying, and one that is restricted or unavailable in many countries.

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The board is rebuilt at most every 15 minutes and is computed from closed bars, so prices and levels are those of the last build, not live quotes. For live prices use Live Markets.

Work out your own size

Position size calculator

The board publishes levels, not sizes — a level set means nothing until it is scaled to your account. This does that arithmetic with numbers you enter. Press Size this on any reading above to load its direction, entry and stop.

Using your own numbers. Load a reading from the board to prefill it.
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units of the asset
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If price reaches each target
This is arithmetic, not advice. It assumes your stop actually fills at the price you typed — in fast or thin markets it may not, and on leveraged positions a gap can cost more than the figure shown, including more than your deposit. It ignores fees, funding and slippage, all of which make the real outcome worse. Nothing here suggests you should take the position at all.
Reading a card

What the markers mean

Every card carries the same four markers. They describe agreement between timeframes and nothing else — there is no second layer of analysis behind them.

The grade

  • SAll four aligned. The 9 EMA sits on the same side of the 21 EMA on the 4-hour, daily, weekly and monthly charts.
  • AWeekly and monthly aligned. Three of the four agree, and the two slowest are among them — the higher timeframes set the direction and one faster chart disagrees.
  • BThree of four aligned, higher timeframe split. Three agree but one of the two slowest is against, so the longer-term picture is contested.
A grade counts agreement between timeframes, not accuracy. Moving averages are built from prices that already happened: an S-grade card says four charts are currently trending the same way, and nothing about what happens next. Alignment is also at its strongest near the end of a move, which is exactly when it is most likely to reverse.

The supporting markers

  • Timeframe agreementHow many of the four timeframes lean the same way as the card, shown as 3 of 4. The bar beneath it is the same figure weighted, since the slower timeframes count for more.
  • WeightedThe signed total of the agreeing timeframes: 4-hour counts 1, daily 2, weekly 3, monthly 4, so the range is −10 to +10. It exists to order the list, nothing more. A card at +2 has the three faster charts up and the monthly down; one at +9 has everything but the 4-hour up.
  • 9/21 EMA by timeframeThe actual read on each chart — 9 above 21 or 9 below 21 — coloured green where it agrees with the card's direction and red where it does not. A card with one red chip is telling you precisely which timeframe disagrees.
  • LevelsEntry is the last price. The stop is the near edge of the EMA band on the 4-hour chart (or the daily one, if the 4-hour band is already broken or sits less than 0.5% away): break it and the alignment the card is built on has ended. Targets are one, two and three times the entry-to-stop distance, so 1R/2R/3R describes the shape of the level set, not a forecast. When the stop is unusually far the card says so.
The levels are arithmetic, not advice. They are computed from the last price and the EMAs with no knowledge of your account, and there is no evidence here that trading them is profitable. Treat them as a way to read the shape of a signal, not a plan handed to you.
Where the readings come from

The whole rule, in full

This board runs one calculation. It is published here in its entirety so you can reproduce every card yourself on any charting platform.

Two moving averages

On each timeframe the board compares a 9-period EMA with a 21-period EMA on closing prices. Nine above twenty-one is an up read; nine below is a down read. That is the entire test.

Four timeframes

The same test runs on the 4-hour, daily, weekly and monthly charts. A market appears on the board only when at least three of the four point the same way — a two-against-two split is not an alignment and is left off entirely.

Slower charts weigh more

The monthly read counts four times as much as the 4-hour one (4·3·2·1, monthly to 4-hour). Fast timeframes flip often and cost the most to act on once fees and spread are counted, so they are deliberately the quietest voice here.

Closed bars only

The bar still forming is discarded on every timeframe, so a reading cannot appear and vanish as a candle moves. The board is rebuilt at most every 15 minutes.

Every market, same test

The scan starts from every USDT market Binance.US lists — nothing is hand-picked. Markets trading under $10,000 a day are skipped, because a signal you cannot enter or exit is not a signal, and a coin without 21 months of history is left out until the monthly read exists. Each card shows its own 24-hour turnover.

What it deliberately is not

There is no volume test, no momentum oscillator, no pattern detection and no optimisation. A moving-average cross is one of the oldest and most widely known rules in the market, and it is known to perform poorly in sideways conditions, which crypto spends much of its time in.

The uncomfortable part

What this board cannot tell you

Limits worth taking seriously

  • 1Agreement is not expectancy. The grade counts how many timeframes currently agree. It is not derived from historical returns and carries no claim about how often such a reading has been right.
  • 2No backtest, no track record. This rule has not been tested against history here, and nothing on this page reports past performance. Published studies of moving-average rules on crypto generally find the edge disappears once fees and spread are counted.
  • 3Moving averages lag by design. Both EMAs are averages of prices that already happened, so alignment confirms a move that is already under way and is at its most complete near the end of one. In a sideways market this rule flips direction repeatedly and each flip costs fees and spread.
  • 4The levels are not a plan. Entry, stop and targets are published, but no position size is — and on leveraged markets sizing drives the outcome far more than the levels do. How much to risk is specific to your capital, and this board knows nothing about it. The position size calculator will do that arithmetic, but only from numbers you supply, and it is not a recommendation to take the position.
  • 5Acting on a bearish card is not the mirror of a bullish one. The prices here are ordinary spot markets. Going short means borrowed or leveraged exposure on some other venue, where losses can exceed your deposit and position sizing dominates outcomes far more than signal quality does.

Who this is and is not for

If you are building long-term wealth, this page is the wrong tool and mostly a distraction. Broad diversification, low costs and time do the work — none of which requires a signal board. Start with asset allocation →

If you already trade actively and understand derivatives risk, treat this as a screening tool: something that narrows a board of dozens of markets down to a handful worth your own analysis. It is the start of your research, never the end of it.

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