Stochastic + EMA (STOCH-EMA)

How the setup is identified

Combines a stochastic extreme with a moving-average trend filter, entering on the oscillator turn in the trend direction.

Status and evidence

Cut in the 2026 review — no edge that survived out-of-sample testing.

What we learned

Combining an oscillator with a trend filter is the standard answer to the standard criticism of oscillators — that they fail in trends. The combination did not rescue it: −$305 across the test period, negative in four months.

Together with RSI-REVERSAL, which fired zero times, this closes the oscillator question for our purposes. None of the four strategies we ship is oscillator-driven, and that is a result rather than a preference.