{
  "id": 2021,
  "rank": 2822,
  "name": "Five-Minute Momentum Trade",
  "aka": [
    "BK Forex Kathy Lien Momentum Strategy"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A4",
  "one_liner": "Long trade when price crosses above 20-period EMA and MACD crosses above zero within last 5 bars, with stop loss and take profit.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "M5"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "any"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "any"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 20
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "MACD",
      "params": {
        "fast_period": 12,
        "slow_period": 26,
        "signal_period": 9
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "close CROSSES OVER Ema20",
    "summation[5](MyMacd CROSSES OVER 0)",
    "Not OnMarket"
  ],
  "entry_short": [],
  "exit_rules": [
    "Gain >= SellHalf AND LongOnMarket AND abs(CountOfPosition) = LotSize",
    "StopLevel > 0"
  ],
  "filters": [],
  "stop_loss": "MySL",
  "take_profit": "MySL * 3",
  "position_size": "LotSize = 10",
  "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/2021-five-minute-momentum-trade",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.prorealcode.com/topic/momentum-strategy-by-kathy-lien/",
  "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."
}