EMA Trend Short: Short-Only Trend Following

EMA Trend Short is a short-only, trend-following strategy built for futures/margin markets. It uses two exponential moving averages as a trend filter: a short only opens when the fast EMA sits below the slow EMA, the slow EMA itself is declining over a configurable lookback window, and price is trading below the slow EMA. The short is covered as soon as price reclaims the slow EMA, on the view that the downtrend thesis no longer holds. All three periods (fast EMA, slow EMA, and the trend-lookback window) are exposed as hyperopt-tunable parameters, optimized only against the in-sample training window, never the out-of-sample leg. Because a short position carries unbounded loss potential if price rallies against it, a hard stoploss is set on every position; there is no exception. This is an original technique authored for this backtest window and is not adapted from any third-party codebase. As with every listing on this marketplace, the results shown come from simulated, self-selected backtests over historical data and are not a guarantee or indication of future performance.