Moving average

In the picture below you will see a very simple use of a moving average. I like to work on 10 minute candle bars. You see the E-mini for about 7 days.
The blue moving average is a 100 period moving average. Check you own graphs for the following trade setup with this simple moving average.

When the candles start crossing above the moving average go long.
When the candles start crossing below the moving average go short.

If you want add the rule: When the trend is up don't go short. When the trend is down do not go long.

Normally this method does not work because most people work with very short moving averages like 5 to 20 candles. The 100 candle moving average will take some patience offcource, and just a trade every so many days. Look back in your own charts, and you wil see this will give a very consistant trade setup.

As you can see it is also a good trading setup if you a an exponential moving average of the same duration. Go long when the exponential moving average is crossing the moving average, and vice versa. Again this will work better then on short period moving averages.

Exit when the moving average goes flat, or when the exponential one is crossing the regular moving average.