Trend strength
EMA Slope Rankings
TheDesperateTrader.com· How steep is the trend, on the timeframe that matters for how you trade.
Why we rank by slope
We tested whether a steep EMA actually leads anywhere. Across 6,290 sampled bars on 90 symbols, a bar sitting in the steepest decile of slope went on to touch +3% within the next 60 minutes more than twice as often as the market did on the same days.
65.8%
of steepest-decile bars reached +3% within 60 minutes
28.3%
base rate for the same move, across all bars
2.3x
lift, and it held on 4 of 4 days tested
Measured 2026-08-04 on 90 symbols over five sessions. Two honest caveats, because they matter more than the headline: this measures reach, meaning the move showed up, not that any particular trade captured it. And which EMA you rank by barely changes the result (2.31x to 2.42x across the 9, 50 and 200), so the signal is the slope, not a magic period.
Every holding period lives on a different chart. A scalp is decided on the 5-minute, a day trade on the 30-minute, a swing on the 4-hour, a position on the daily and a long-term hold on the weekly. Pick your lane and the board ranks the market on the timeframe that actually governs it, instead of on one generic chart.
Within a lane, the 9 tells you whether it is moving right now, the 50 whether the trend is intact, and the 200 whether the whole regime is up. Slope is percent per session, so a $900 stock and a $3 stock are measured the same way.
EMAon the 4h chart
The 4-hour chart offers a 9 and a 20, not a 50: intraday history is a ~9-day window, which is only about 40 four-hour bars. A 50 would need a seed that does not exist.
| # | Symbol | 4h shape | Price | 4h slope | Move | Stack | $ Vol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MU Micron Technology, Inc. | – | 1,096 | –%/sess | – | $32.0B | |
| 2 | QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 | – | 747.46 | –%/sess | – | $30.0B | |
| 3 | SPY State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | – | 773.38 | –%/sess | – | $26.9B | |
| 4 | SNDK Sandisk Corporation Common Stock | – | 1,887 | –%/sess | – | $24.4B | |
| 5 | NVDA Nvidia Corp | – | 228.87 | –%/sess | – | $21.9B | |
| 6 | META Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock | – | 736.60 | –%/sess | – | $20.7B | |
| 7 | AMD Advanced Micro Devices | – | 623.77 | –%/sess | – | $17.6B | |
| 8 | VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF | – | 712.78 | –%/sess | – | $14.8B | |
| 9 | IVV iShares Core S&P 500 ETF | – | 776.81 | –%/sess | – | $14.0B | |
| 10 | AAPL Apple Inc. | – | 339.75 | –%/sess | – | $13.8B | |
| 11 | INTC Intel Corp | – | 123.86 | –%/sess | – | $13.4B | |
| 12 | MSFT Microsoft Corp | – | 498.00 | –%/sess | – | $10.8B | |
| 13 | AMZN Amazon.Com Inc | – | 254.98 | –%/sess | – | $10.7B | |
| 14 | TSLA Tesla, Inc. Common Stock | – | 378.90 | –%/sess | – | $10.7B | |
| 15 | GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A Common Stock | – | 351.16 | –%/sess | – | $10.5B | |
| 16 | SPCX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Class A Common Stock | – | 154.72 | –%/sess | – | $9.2B | |
| 17 | AVGO Broadcom Inc. Common Stock | – | 364.54 | –%/sess | – | $7.5B | |
| 18 | IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF | – | 287.21 | –%/sess | – | $7.4B | |
| 19 | GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock | – | 347.41 | –%/sess | – | $7.0B | |
| 20 | ACWX iShares MSCI ACWI ex US ETF | – | 77.84 | –%/sess | – | $6.2B | |
| 21 | MBB iShares MBS ETF | – | 91.45 | –%/sess | – | $5.6B | |
| 22 | DELL Dell Technologies Inc. | – | 548.92 | –%/sess | – | $5.4B | |
| 23 | MRVL Marvell Technology, Inc. Common Stock | – | 262.36 | –%/sess | – | $5.2B | |
| 24 | IUSB iShares Trust iShares Core Universal USD Bond ETF | – | 44.92 | –%/sess | – | $5.2B | |
| 25 | TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | – | 452.00 | –%/sess | – | $5.1B | |
| 26 | MTUM iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF | – | 317.90 | –%/sess | – | $5.0B | |
| 27 | IEMG iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF | – | 83.90 | –%/sess | – | $4.9B | |
| 28 | CORO iShares International Country Rotation Active ETF | – | 37.25 | –%/sess | – | $4.9B | |
| 29 | STX Seagate Technology Holdings PLC Ordinary Shares (Ireland) | – | 919.84 | –%/sess | – | $4.9B | |
| 30 | ORCL Oracle Corp | – | 149.20 | –%/sess | – | $4.7B | |
| 31 | MRNA Moderna, Inc. Common Stock | – | 182.56 | –%/sess | – | $4.4B | |
| 32 | LITE Lumentum Holdings Inc. Common Stock | – | 945.67 | –%/sess | – | $4.1B | |
| 33 | PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A Common Stock | – | 184.99 | –%/sess | – | $4.1B | |
| 34 | SMH VanEck Semiconductor ETF | – | 607.46 | –%/sess | – | $4.0B | |
| 35 | MSTR Strategy Inc Common Stock Class A | – | 167.33 | –%/sess | – | $4.0B | |
| 36 | WDC Western Digital Corp. | – | 464.60 | –%/sess | – | $3.9B | |
| 37 | JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co. | – | 340.00 | –%/sess | – | $3.9B | |
| 38 | XLF State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF | – | 54.80 | –%/sess | – | $3.8B | |
| 39 | SHOP Shopify Inc. Class A subordinate voting shares | – | 147.74 | –%/sess | – | $3.8B | |
| 40 | SKHY SK hynix Inc. American Depositary Shares | – | 195.37 | –%/sess | – | $3.7B | |
| 41 | NBIS Nebius Group N.V. Class A Ordinary Shares | – | 236.12 | –%/sess | – | $3.6B | |
| 42 | SOXX iShares Semiconductor ETF | – | 572.78 | –%/sess | – | $3.6B | |
| 43 | CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc. Common Stock (DE) | – | 106.44 | –%/sess | – | $3.5B | |
| 44 | WBD Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. Series A Common Stock | – | 30.83 | –%/sess | – | $3.4B | |
| 45 | CRM Salesforce, Inc. | – | 233.28 | –%/sess | – | $3.2B | |
| 46 | V VISA Inc. | – | 362.04 | –%/sess | – | $3.2B | |
| 47 | PANW Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Common Stock | – | 374.57 | –%/sess | – | $3.0B | |
| 48 | BE Bloom Energy Corporation | – | 276.53 | –%/sess | – | $2.9B | |
| 49 | LRCX Lam Research Corp | – | 310.96 | –%/sess | – | $2.9B | |
| 50 | LLY Eli Lilly & Co. | – | 1,170 | –%/sess | – | $2.9B | |
| 51 | VLO Valero Energy Corporation | – | 377.14 | –%/sess | – | $2.8B | |
| 52 | AMAT Applied Materials Inc | – | 472.46 | –%/sess | – | $2.7B | |
| 53 | GLD SPDR Gold Trust, SPDR Gold Shares | – | 400.07 | –%/sess | – | $2.6B | |
| 54 | BAC Bank of America Corporation | – | 56.20 | –%/sess | – | $2.5B | |
| 55 | LQD iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF | – | 105.09 | –%/sess | – | $2.5B | |
| 56 | NFLX NetFlix Inc | – | 72.16 | –%/sess | – | $2.5B | |
| 57 | EWY iShares MSCI South Korea ETF | – | 192.62 | –%/sess | – | $2.5B | |
| 58 | ARM Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares | – | 333.20 | –%/sess | – | $2.5B | |
| 59 | XLE State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF | – | 61.78 | –%/sess | – | $2.4B | |
| 60 | HYG iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | – | 78.67 | –%/sess | – | $2.4B | |
| 61 | BRK.B BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY Class B | – | 503.49 | –%/sess | – | $2.4B | |
| 62 | BKNG Booking Holdings Inc. Common Stock | – | 164.22 | –%/sess | – | $2.4B | |
| 63 | COHR Coherent Corp. | – | 310.39 | –%/sess | – | $2.3B | |
| 64 | CRWV CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock | – | 86.76 | –%/sess | – | $2.3B | |
| 65 | QCOM Qualcomm Inc | – | 198.27 | –%/sess | – | $2.3B | |
| 66 | AZO AutoZone, Inc. | – | 2,895 | –%/sess | – | $2.3B | |
| 67 | TXN Texas Instruments Incorporated | – | 271.41 | –%/sess | – | $2.3B | |
| 68 | XOM ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation | – | 158.71 | –%/sess | – | $2.3B | |
| 69 | CRWD CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock | – | 250.06 | –%/sess | – | $2.2B | |
| 70 | IBIT iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF | – | 48.83 | –%/sess | – | $2.2B | |
| 71 | WMT Walmart Inc. Common Stock | – | 110.12 | –%/sess | – | $2.1B | |
| 72 | MA Mastercard Incorporated | – | 555.89 | –%/sess | – | $2.1B | |
| 73 | MPWR Monolithic Power Systems, Inc. | – | 1,381 | –%/sess | – | $2.1B | |
| 74 | ASML ASML Holding NV | – | 1,748 | –%/sess | – | $2.1B | |
| 75 | GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF | – | 97.83 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 76 | GEV GE Vernova Inc. | – | 950.28 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 77 | MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF | – | 102.75 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 78 | BLCR BlackRock ETF Trust iShares Large Cap Core Active ETF | – | 49.89 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 79 | HOOD Robinhood Markets, Inc. Class A Common Stock | – | 124.25 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 80 | ALAB Astera Labs, Inc. Common Stock | – | 363.46 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 81 | RCL Royal Caribbean Group | – | 234.89 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 82 | SGOV iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF | – | 100.61 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 83 | DRAM Roundhill Memory ETF | – | 63.62 | –%/sess | – | $2.0B | |
| 84 | GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | – | 949.49 | –%/sess | – | $1.9B | |
| 85 | BAI iShares A.I. Innovation and Tech Active ETF | – | 47.63 | –%/sess | – | $1.9B | |
| 86 | EWT iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF | – | 115.11 | –%/sess | – | $1.9B | |
| 87 | CVX Chevron Corporation | – | 202.41 | –%/sess | – | $1.9B | |
| 88 | TLT iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF | – | 81.75 | –%/sess | – | $1.9B | |
| 89 | UBER Uber Technologies, Inc. | – | 69.89 | –%/sess | – | $1.8B | |
| 90 | MPC MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION | – | 389.68 | –%/sess | – | $1.8B | |
| 91 | COST Costco Wholesale Corp | – | 899.41 | –%/sess | – | $1.8B | |
| 92 | EXPE Expedia Group, Inc. Common Stock | – | 280.70 | –%/sess | – | $1.8B | |
| 93 | ADBE Adobe Inc. | – | 238.25 | –%/sess | – | $1.8B | |
| 94 | KLAC KLA Corporation Common Stock | – | 188.32 | –%/sess | – | $1.8B | |
| 95 | DIA State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust | – | 518.00 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 96 | NOW SERVICENOW, INC. | – | 137.00 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 97 | BABA Alibaba Group Holding Limited American Depositary Shares, each represents eight Ordinary Shares | – | 116.31 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 98 | XLK State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF | – | 196.27 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 99 | SCHW The Charles Schwab Corporation | – | 100.35 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 100 | EFG iShares MSCI EAFE Growth ETF | – | 122.36 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 101 | SOFI SoFi Technologies, Inc. Common Stock | – | 17.16 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 102 | MELI Mercado Libre, Inc | – | 1,827 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 103 | MRK Merck & Co., Inc. | – | 150.91 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 104 | VKTX Viking Therapeutics, Inc | – | 40.85 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 105 | UNH UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED (Delaware) | – | 372.95 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 106 | SNOW Snowflake Inc. | – | 336.59 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 107 | CAT Caterpillar Inc. | – | 808.01 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 108 | HD Home Depot, Inc. | – | 305.35 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 109 | IREN IREN Limited Ordinary Shares | – | 48.55 | –%/sess | – | $1.6B | |
| 110 | RKLB Rocket Lab Corporation Common Stock | – | 71.98 | –%/sess | – | $1.6B | |
| 111 | CRDO Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd Ordinary Shares | – | 192.56 | –%/sess | – | $1.6B | |
| 112 | MS Morgan Stanley | – | 200.18 | –%/sess | – | $1.6B | |
| 113 | AXP American Express Company | – | 305.07 | –%/sess | – | $1.6B | |
| 114 | BA Boeing Company | – | 197.72 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 115 | KO Coca-Cola Company | – | 88.61 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 116 | JNJ Johnson & Johnson | – | 269.19 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 117 | AMGN Amgen Inc | – | 410.24 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 118 | C Citigroup Inc. | – | 132.47 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 119 | VZ Verizon Communications | – | 46.45 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 120 | PM Philip Morris International Inc. | – | 190.23 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 121 | COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. Class A Common Stock | – | 201.07 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 122 | GRML Greenland Mines Ltd. Common Stock | – | 14.15 | –%/sess | – | $1.4B | |
| 123 | INTU Intuit Inc | – | 292.35 | –%/sess | – | $1.4B | |
| 124 | RSP Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF | – | 212.80 | –%/sess | – | $1.4B | |
| 125 | EEM iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF | – | 69.10 | –%/sess | – | $1.4B | |
| 126 | TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | – | 658.52 | –%/sess | – | $1.4B | |
| 127 | FLTW Franklin FTSE Taiwan ETF | – | 111.31 | –%/sess | – | $1.4B | |
| 128 | PYPL PayPal Holdings, Inc. Common Stock | – | 52.89 | –%/sess | – | $1.4B | |
| 129 | BIL State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF | – | 91.57 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 130 | WFC Wells Fargo & Co. | – | 83.15 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 131 | TJX TJX Companies, Inc. (The) | – | 130.79 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 132 | CBRS Cerebras Systems Inc. Class A Common Stock | – | 212.41 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 133 | MDT Medtronic plc | – | 90.77 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 134 | ONON On Holding AG | – | 29.39 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 135 | SMCI Super Micro Computer, Inc. Common Stock | – | 41.54 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 136 | MCD McDonald's Corporation | – | 250.35 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 137 | XBI State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF | – | 161.87 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 138 | XLI State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF | – | 170.27 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 139 | USO United States Oil Fund, LP | – | 144.08 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 140 | XLV State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF | – | 169.89 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 141 | ALL The Allstate Corporation | – | 229.50 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 142 | QQQM Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF | – | 307.78 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 143 | EFA iShares MSCI EAFE ETF | – | 106.50 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 144 | KRE State Street SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF | – | 71.19 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 145 | CRCL Circle Internet Group, Inc. | – | 94.59 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B |
Slope is percent per session so timeframes are comparable to each other. The shape column is the same lookback the slope is measured over, scaled to its own high and low. It shows the path, not the size, which is what the number beside it is for. In the grid view every column is the 9-EMA. A dash means that timeframe cannot seed that EMA from available history. 145 names, 150 screened.