{
  "id": 1068,
  "rank": 2932,
  "name": "following-the-trend",
  "aka": [
    "Trend Trading Model",
    "Trend following Module"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A2",
  "one_liner": "Enters long positions when the 50 EMA crosses above the 100 EMA and the close crosses above the Donchian upper band, exits on a stop loss.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "null"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "null"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "null"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 100
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "Donchian",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "close[1]"
    },
    {
      "name": "Donchian",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "low[1]"
    },
    {
      "name": "Supertrend",
      "params": {
        "period": 3,
        "mult": 10
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "ema50 > ema100",
    "close CROSSES OVER donchianUpperBand"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "ema50 < ema100",
    "close CROSSES UNDER donchianLowerBand"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "close < initialstopExitPoint",
    "close > initialstopExitPoint"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "null"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "initialstopExitPoint",
  "take_profit": "null",
  "position_size": "BUY 1 SHARES AT high stop",
  "evidence_type": "source_code",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": null,
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/1068-following-the-trend",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.prorealcode.com/prorealtime-trading-strategies/following-the-trend/",
  "limitations": "These are machine-extracted research records, not verified trading systems. Catalog rank measures specification detail and claimed evidence, not profitability. The catalog extraction pipeline did not independently backtest these records. Its separate selected testing ledger does not validate the wider corpus. Rules, labels and parameters can be incomplete or wrong; consult the original source and its reuse terms."
}