Applied Materials — trading strategies, backtested

A momentum gauge built from the gap between a fast and a slow EMA, with a signal line that is an EMA of that gap.

RSI measures how stretched recent gains are versus losses on a 0-100 scale — a gauge of stretch, not a prediction of a turn.

Larry Connors' short-term dip-buy: a trend-filtered mean-reversion rule that buys deep RSI(2) oversold readings only while price sits above its long trend filter.

Bollinger Bands are a standard-deviation envelope around a moving average; a close below the lower band reads as a statistically stretched-down move.

A rule that reads a close beyond the upper Bollinger band — a standard-deviation envelope around a moving average — as the start of a move.

The 'turtle' channel rule: it tracks the highest high and lowest low of a recent window (both excluding the current bar) and trades a break beyond them.

The Stochastic %K shows where the close sits inside the recent high-low range on a 0-100 scale — a range/reversion gauge.

Time-series (absolute) momentum measures the asset against itself, not a ranking: it compares the asset's own trailing 12-month return (skipping the last ~month) to its own history.

Wilder's 'stop and reverse' dot: a trailing stop that accelerates toward price as a move runs, flipping the trend reading when price crosses it.

The Ichimoku 'cloud' is a band built from midpoints of past highs and lows, displaced forward so it derives only from past data; price above it reads bullish.

The Directional Movement system splits into +DI and -DI (which side leads) and ADX (how much of a trend is present, 0-100).

The most-watched long-term regime filter: a single line that reads the market as an uptrend while price holds above its long moving average.

A breakout rule that reads a new roughly one-year high (the channel excludes the current bar) as a sign that the up-move may continue.

A rule that reads a close beyond an ATR-width channel around an EMA — a volatility-based cousin of Bollinger bands — as the start of a move.

Heikin-Ashi ('average bar') redraws each candle from an average of price and the prior candle's own averaged values — a smoothed view of the same real price.

The gap between a fast (5-bar) and slow (34-bar) average of each bar's midpoint — a momentum gauge that is positive when the fast average leads.

The Commodity Channel Index gauges how far the typical price has stretched from its recent average, scaled by its own average deviation — a stretch reading, not a prediction.

Stochastic RSI applies the Stochastic formula to RSI itself, showing where current RSI sits in its own recent range on a 0-1 scale — a fast, noisy stretch gauge.

On-Balance Volume is a running total that adds volume on up-days and subtracts it on down-days, so the line rises when up-day volume dominates.

The Money Flow Index is a volume-weighted RSI: it weights each day's typical price by volume, then gauges how stretched buying pressure is versus selling on a 0-100 scale.

Chaikin Money Flow reads where each close sits inside its bar's range, weights that by volume, and averages it to a -1..+1 reading; above zero suggests inflows.

Aroon reads how recently the highest high and the lowest low occurred over a lookback window — Aroon Up sits near 100 just after a fresh high and decays as that high ages, and Aroon Down does the same for fresh lows.

The Vortex Indicator builds two lines from the distance between each bar and the prior bar's opposite extreme — VI+ from this high versus the prior low, VI− from this low versus the prior high — each divided by the true range summed over a lookback.

A three-candle price imbalance — a gap between the first candle's high and the third candle's low, confirmed at the third candle's close — that price may later return to before continuing higher or filling back in.

The observable half of a liquidity sweep: a new low beyond the last N closed bars' support that a later bar closes back above — the failed push lower that reclaimed the level, read from price alone with no claim about resting orders a feed cannot show.

A rule that reads low realized volatility — the Bollinger Bands compressed inside the Keltner Channels drawn around the same moving average — as a coiled range, and the release of that compression, with momentum leaning up, as the start of a move.