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.
HPQ
HP Inc.
+4.07
%/session
$35.48
$941M
HPE
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company
+2.89
%/session
$62.09
$2.4B
AAPL
Apple Inc.
+2.00
%/session
$332.27
$16.9B
| # | Symbol | 4h shape | Price | 4h slope | Move | Stack | $ Vol |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | HPQ HP Inc. | 35.48 | +4.07%/sess | +6.1% | $941M | ||
| 2 | HPE Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company | 62.09 | +2.89%/sess | +4.3% | $2.4B | ||
| 3 | AAPL Apple Inc. | 332.27 | +2.00%/sess | +3.0% | $16.9B | ||
| 4 | CLS Celestica, Inc. | 346.55 | +1.89%/sess | +2.8% | $889M | ||
| 5 | USO United States Oil Fund, LP | 154.90 | +1.84%/sess | +2.8% | $1.0B | ||
| 6 | DELL Dell Technologies Inc. | 567.29 | +1.77%/sess | +2.7% | $8.2B | ||
| 7 | QCOM Qualcomm Inc | 181.97 | +1.71%/sess | +2.6% | $2.1B | ||
| 8 | NOK Nokia Corporation | 11.13 | +1.53%/sess | +2.3% | $971M | ||
| 9 | APP Applovin Corporation Class A Common Stock | 323.96 | +1.39%/sess | +2.1% | $1.2B | ||
| 10 | MRNA Moderna, Inc. Common Stock | 143.97 | +1.30%/sess | +2.0% | $2.2B | ||
| 11 | TER Teradyne, Inc. Common Stock | 379.72 | +1.15%/sess | +1.7% | $911M | ||
| 12 | ISRG Intuitive Surgical Inc. | 369.15 | +1.07%/sess | +1.6% | $1.2B | ||
| 13 | VLO Valero Energy Corporation | 390.42 | +1.05%/sess | +1.6% | $1.2B | ||
| 14 | ON ON Semiconductor Corp | 76.14 | +0.98%/sess | +1.5% | $860M | ||
| 15 | IBM International Business Machines Corporation | 243.29 | +0.92%/sess | +1.4% | $1.2B | ||
| 16 | MRVL Marvell Technology, Inc. Common Stock | 236.10 | +0.86%/sess | +1.3% | $4.1B | ||
| 17 | ETHA iShares Ethereum Trust ETF | 19.16 | +0.86%/sess | +1.3% | $1.9B | ||
| 18 | T AT&T Inc. | 26.06 | +0.85%/sess | +1.3% | $1.1B | ||
| 19 | BE Bloom Energy Corporation | 275.75 | +0.74%/sess | +1.1% | $3.8B | ||
| 20 | AMD Advanced Micro Devices | 516.13 | +0.64%/sess | +1.0% | $9.8B | ||
| 21 | GOOGL Alphabet Inc. Class A Common Stock | 338.50 | +0.61%/sess | +0.9% | $8.4B | ||
| 22 | COHR Coherent Corp. | 305.37 | +0.60%/sess | +0.9% | $2.2B | ||
| 23 | GOOG Alphabet Inc. Class C Capital Stock | 335.45 | +0.59%/sess | +0.9% | $5.3B | ||
| 24 | META Meta Platforms, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 648.03 | +0.58%/sess | +0.9% | $11.0B | ||
| 25 | CSCO Cisco Systems, Inc. Common Stock (DE) | 112.13 | +0.56%/sess | +0.8% | $1.6B | ||
| 26 | BMNR BitMine Immersion Technologies, Inc. | 25.03 | +0.55%/sess | +0.8% | $1.6B | ||
| 27 | XOM ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation | 165.99 | +0.52%/sess | +0.8% | $1.9B | ||
| 28 | ARM Arm Holdings plc American Depositary Shares | 264.79 | +0.31%/sess | +0.5% | $1.1B | ||
| 29 | ANET Arista Networks | 199.59 | +0.26%/sess | +0.4% | $926M | ||
| 30 | AMZN Amazon.Com Inc | 256.78 | +0.22%/sess | +0.3% | $6.9B | ||
| 31 | BRK.B BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY Class B | 510.37 | +0.19%/sess | +0.3% | $1.8B | ||
| 32 | SPCX Space Exploration Technologies Corp. Class A Common Stock | 151.21 | +0.12%/sess | +0.2% | $12.0B | ||
| 33 | MSFT Microsoft Corp | 495.63 | +0.11%/sess | +0.2% | $7.4B | ||
| 34 | CVX Chevron Corporation | 214.06 | +0.11%/sess | +0.2% | $1.4B | ||
| 35 | WMT Walmart Inc. Common Stock | 107.15 | +0.11%/sess | +0.2% | $1.8B | ||
| 36 | SMCI Super Micro Computer, Inc. Common Stock | 40.10 | +0.10%/sess | +0.2% | $1.9B | ||
| 37 | SKHY SK hynix Inc. American Depositary Shares | 190.07 | +0.10%/sess | +0.2% | $2.8B | ||
| 38 | NFLX NetFlix Inc | 77.40 | +0.09%/sess | +0.1% | $1.7B | ||
| 39 | BAC Bank of America Corporation | 62.69 | +0.08%/sess | +0.1% | $2.0B | ||
| 40 | KO Coca-Cola Company | 88.29 | +0.08%/sess | +0.1% | $882M | ||
| 41 | JPM JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 356.23 | +0.07%/sess | +0.1% | $1.9B | ||
| 42 | TSLA Tesla, Inc. Common Stock | 365.44 | +0.04%/sess | +0.1% | $11.0B | ||
| 43 | XLE State Street Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF | 65.14 | +0.03%/sess | +0.0% | $2.0B | ||
| 44 | BIL State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF | 91.50 | +0.02%/sess | +0.0% | $1.3B | ||
| 45 | SGOV iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF | 100.52 | +0.01%/sess | +0.0% | $2.0B | ||
| 46 | CAT Caterpillar Inc. | 818.57 | -0.02%/sess | -0.0% | $1.5B | ||
| 47 | SPY State Street SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust | 764.29 | -0.04%/sess | -0.1% | $34.8B | ||
| 48 | BA Boeing Company | 210.45 | -0.05%/sess | -0.1% | $872M | ||
| 49 | VOO Vanguard S&P 500 ETF | 702.56 | -0.05%/sess | -0.1% | $4.1B | ||
| 50 | SOXX iShares Semiconductor ETF | 527.07 | -0.06%/sess | -0.1% | $3.0B | ||
| 51 | XLK State Street Technology Select Sector SPDR ETF | 187.67 | -0.07%/sess | -0.1% | $1.2B | ||
| 52 | QQQM Invesco NASDAQ 100 ETF | 294.39 | -0.09%/sess | -0.1% | $870M | ||
| 53 | QQQ Invesco QQQ Trust, Series 1 | 714.88 | -0.11%/sess | -0.2% | $19.1B | ||
| 54 | V VISA Inc. | 370.45 | -0.12%/sess | -0.2% | $1.3B | ||
| 55 | TSM Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. | 433.24 | -0.14%/sess | -0.2% | $4.6B | ||
| 56 | AVGO Broadcom Inc. Common Stock | 361.99 | -0.14%/sess | -0.2% | $7.7B | ||
| 57 | SPYM State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF | 89.72 | -0.17%/sess | -0.3% | $3.9B | ||
| 58 | INTC Intel Corp | 102.94 | -0.17%/sess | -0.3% | $9.0B | ||
| 59 | PANW Palo Alto Networks, Inc. Common Stock | 330.65 | -0.18%/sess | -0.3% | $1.5B | ||
| 60 | UBER Uber Technologies, Inc. | 71.67 | -0.19%/sess | -0.3% | $1.8B | ||
| 61 | IVV iShares Core S&P 500 ETF | 767.92 | -0.19%/sess | -0.3% | $5.8B | ||
| 62 | SMH VanEck Semiconductor ETF | 568.53 | -0.20%/sess | -0.3% | $3.0B | ||
| 63 | DIA State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust | 525.79 | -0.22%/sess | -0.3% | $1.8B | ||
| 64 | VTI Vanguard Morningstar Total Stock Market ETF | 376.31 | -0.25%/sess | -0.4% | $1.0B | ||
| 65 | GEV GE Vernova Inc. | 957.27 | -0.27%/sess | -0.4% | $1.1B | ||
| 66 | XLF State Street Financial Select Sector SPDR ETF | 57.25 | -0.29%/sess | -0.4% | $2.0B | ||
| 67 | COST Costco Wholesale Corp | 904.77 | -0.30%/sess | -0.4% | $1.6B | ||
| 68 | MCD McDonald's Corporation | 252.53 | -0.35%/sess | -0.5% | $1.0B | ||
| 69 | PEP PepsiCo, Inc. | 136.32 | -0.36%/sess | -0.5% | $1.3B | ||
| 70 | EWY iShares MSCI South Korea ETF | 188.72 | -0.36%/sess | -0.5% | $2.3B | ||
| 71 | IWM iShares Russell 2000 ETF | 288.89 | -0.47%/sess | -0.7% | $7.7B | ||
| 72 | LLY Eli Lilly & Co. | 1,116 | -0.48%/sess | -0.7% | $2.1B | ||
| 73 | AMAT Applied Materials Inc | 456.49 | -0.49%/sess | -0.7% | $2.0B | ||
| 74 | TLT iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF | 80.87 | -0.50%/sess | -0.8% | $2.6B | ||
| 75 | CRWD CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 206.74 | -0.52%/sess | -0.8% | $1.4B | ||
| 76 | CRM Salesforce, Inc. | 247.72 | -0.54%/sess | -0.8% | $2.4B | ||
| 77 | GLD SPDR Gold Trust, SPDR Gold Shares | 398.77 | -0.56%/sess | -0.8% | $4.7B | ||
| 78 | BITO ProShares Bitcoin ETF | 10.37 | -0.56%/sess | -0.8% | $876M | ||
| 79 | ASML ASML Holding NV | 1,698 | -0.60%/sess | -0.9% | $1.5B | ||
| 80 | IBIT iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF | 43.77 | -0.73%/sess | -1.1% | $2.1B | ||
| 81 | COIN Coinbase Global, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 175.26 | -0.76%/sess | -1.1% | $1.4B | ||
| 82 | KLAC KLA Corporation Common Stock | 180.64 | -0.78%/sess | -1.2% | $1.4B | ||
| 83 | NOW SERVICENOW, INC. | 132.53 | -0.95%/sess | -1.4% | $1.4B | ||
| 84 | GDX VanEck Gold Miners ETF | 97.10 | -0.97%/sess | -1.5% | $1.4B | ||
| 85 | PLTR Palantir Technologies Inc. Class A Common Stock | 167.23 | -0.97%/sess | -1.5% | $2.6B | ||
| 86 | RKLB Rocket Lab Corporation Common Stock | 62.95 | -0.99%/sess | -1.5% | $969M | ||
| 87 | DRAM Roundhill Memory ETF | 59.10 | -1.16%/sess | -1.7% | $1.3B | ||
| 88 | HD Home Depot, Inc. | 308.74 | -1.20%/sess | -1.8% | $1.2B | ||
| 89 | NVDA Nvidia Corp | 218.29 | -1.23%/sess | -1.8% | $19.4B | ||
| 90 | LITE Lumentum Holdings Inc. Common Stock | 927.03 | -1.23%/sess | -1.8% | $3.2B | ||
| 91 | SHOP Shopify Inc. Class A subordinate voting shares | 128.79 | -1.24%/sess | -1.9% | $1.4B | ||
| 92 | SNOW Snowflake Inc. | 328.99 | -1.26%/sess | -1.9% | $1.5B | ||
| 93 | NU Nu Holdings Ltd. | 14.62 | -1.29%/sess | -1.9% | $961M | ||
| 94 | SLV iShares Silver Trust | 58.12 | -1.34%/sess | -2.0% | $913M | ||
| 95 | IREN IREN Limited Ordinary Shares | 43.83 | -1.38%/sess | -2.1% | $1.3B | ||
| 96 | BKNG Booking Holdings Inc. Common Stock | 173.92 | -1.48%/sess | -2.2% | $1.1B | ||
| 97 | NBIS Nebius Group N.V. Class A Ordinary Shares | 224.55 | -1.49%/sess | -2.2% | $2.5B | ||
| 98 | MU Micron Technology, Inc. | 975.26 | -1.50%/sess | -2.3% | $21.2B | ||
| 99 | MSTR Strategy Inc Common Stock Class A | 130.97 | -1.50%/sess | -2.3% | $2.6B | ||
| 100 | ADBE Adobe Inc. | 252.23 | -1.55%/sess | -2.3% | $2.7B | ||
| 101 | XBI State Street SPDR S&P Biotech ETF | 156.20 | -1.55%/sess | -2.3% | $1.3B | ||
| 102 | CRDO Credo Technology Group Holding Ltd Ordinary Shares | 162.95 | -1.57%/sess | -2.4% | $960M | ||
| 103 | UNH UNITEDHEALTH GROUP INCORPORATED (Delaware) | 379.09 | -1.59%/sess | -2.4% | $2.8B | ||
| 104 | CRWV CoreWeave, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 88.99 | -1.78%/sess | -2.7% | $1.6B | ||
| 105 | HOOD Robinhood Markets, Inc. Class A Common Stock | 112.57 | -1.83%/sess | -2.7% | $2.2B | ||
| 106 | CRCL Circle Internet Group, Inc. | 90.60 | -1.92%/sess | -2.9% | $943M | ||
| 107 | STX Seagate Technology Holdings PLC Ordinary Shares (Ireland) | 830.17 | -1.95%/sess | -2.9% | $3.2B | ||
| 108 | LRCX Lam Research Corp | 298.22 | -2.09%/sess | -3.1% | $2.8B | ||
| 109 | WDC Western Digital Corp. | 447.18 | -2.18%/sess | -3.3% | $2.4B | ||
| 110 | SNDK Sandisk Corporation Common Stock | 1,633 | -2.29%/sess | -3.4% | $15.3B | ||
| 111 | VRT Vertiv Holdings Co Class A Common Stock | 257.06 | -2.38%/sess | -3.6% | $1.2B | ||
| 112 | ORCL Oracle Corp | 150.28 | -2.43%/sess | -3.6% | $12.1B | ||
| 113 | BSX Boston Scientific Corp. | 42.98 | -2.65%/sess | -4.0% | $1.2B | ||
| 114 | AMGN Amgen Inc | 377.35 | -3.09%/sess | -4.6% | $865M | ||
| 115 | HYG iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF | – | 78.60 | –%/sess | – | $3.1B | |
| 116 | KHC The Kraft Heinz Company Common Stock | – | 24.60 | –%/sess | – | $3.0B | |
| 117 | LQD iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF | – | 104.32 | –%/sess | – | $3.0B | |
| 118 | MUB iShares National Muni Bond ETF | – | 103.17 | –%/sess | – | $1.8B | |
| 119 | PG Procter & Gamble Company | – | 145.27 | –%/sess | – | $1.7B | |
| 120 | VTEB Vanguard Tax-Exempt Bond Index Fund | – | 48.43 | –%/sess | – | $1.6B | |
| 121 | EEM iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF | – | 67.84 | –%/sess | – | $1.5B | |
| 122 | TXN Texas Instruments Incorporated | – | 268.70 | –%/sess | – | $1.4B | |
| 123 | JNJ Johnson & Johnson | – | 265.58 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 124 | MRK Merck & Co., Inc. | – | 143.93 | –%/sess | – | $1.3B | |
| 125 | ACVA ACV Auctions Inc. | – | 10.41 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 126 | GS Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | – | 1,029 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 127 | WFC Wells Fargo & Co. | – | 90.29 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 128 | MA Mastercard Incorporated | – | 569.19 | –%/sess | – | $1.2B | |
| 129 | RSP Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF | – | 214.87 | –%/sess | – | $1.1B | |
| 130 | ABBV ABBVIE INC. | – | 257.12 | –%/sess | – | $1.1B | |
| 131 | EFA iShares MSCI EAFE ETF | – | 106.70 | –%/sess | – | $1.1B | |
| 132 | ADI Analog Devices, Inc. | – | 378.78 | –%/sess | – | $1.1B | |
| 133 | TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. | – | 609.82 | –%/sess | – | $1.1B | |
| 134 | XLV State Street Health Care Select Sector SPDR ETF | – | 165.36 | –%/sess | – | $1.1B | |
| 135 | PM Philip Morris International Inc. | – | 191.06 | –%/sess | – | $1.0B | |
| 136 | SYK Stryker Corporation | – | 275.56 | –%/sess | – | $1.0B | |
| 137 | C Citigroup Inc. | – | 138.82 | –%/sess | – | $1.0B | |
| 138 | AZO AutoZone, Inc. | – | 2,877 | –%/sess | – | $1.0B | |
| 139 | SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc | – | 88.35 | –%/sess | – | $983M | |
| 140 | XLI State Street Industrial Select Sector SPDR ETF | – | 172.37 | –%/sess | – | $961M | |
| 141 | MPC MARATHON PETROLEUM CORPORATION | – | 395.93 | –%/sess | – | $934M | |
| 142 | APH Amphenol Corporation | – | 83.92 | –%/sess | – | $926M | |
| 143 | XLP State Street Consumer Staples Select Sector SPDR ETF | – | 83.38 | –%/sess | – | $903M | |
| 144 | DE Deere & Company | – | 675.74 | –%/sess | – | $894M | |
| 145 | HWM Howmet Aerospace Inc. | – | 229.61 | –%/sess | – | $859M |
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.