First, thank you for bringing this strategy to us, but honestly, I am surprised that you claimed to be trading for 9 years and still using the moving average crossover strategy. This is the beginner's strategy and can be varied with many MA periods depending on how fast or slow you want the crossing to be. Well, good luck with that, but make sure you use a very strict money and risk management with this strategy and pray that the trend of the market last longer when you use it to trade. That's how you can be successful using the strategy.
I will tell you something that comes from my experience, the EMA's are being used since 1750, trading wasn't even a thing, but EMA's were used to calculate average prices. So EMA's are good for the trend trading, if you follow the trend, they are the best to use and easiest as well. I do not use "new" strategies, I always back test and EMA's prove to still be working flawlessly in all of the major financial markets.
If the day comes and EMA's will be proved wrong, that's when I will be looking for a new strategy, but until it works, I will not change but try to make it better.
I know a lot of people who are into trading for a living and they also use EMA. This is no beginner strategy, it is very complex if you try to do the things right. Yes, many beginners might use it too, but it doesn't mean they use it the right way.
Well said! At the same time, I want you to know that it is not how far, but how well, and this MA you see has different trading strategies and it is the fundamental for most of the custom indicators you can think about, so it is dynamic, versatile and powerful.
But still, it's not all of its trading systems that can have a high guarantee, especially the MA crossing strategy, which is weak and market price dependent, so it's dangerous to rely on it, unless the market is strongly trending, like I said in my first reply. And yes, you've made it known that this is a 60% strategy, which I quite agree with, nonetheless, you should train more to achieve a higher winning rate to quantify your 9 years of trading experience. Having an 80% winning strategy is not bad for that long years, see this as an encouragement.