I have been working on a strategy to generate BUY/SELL signals on the basis of simplest form of moving averages. The only difference is that I use
Fibonacci periods for the average
3,5,8,13,21,34,55,89,144
3,8 works best where you want the stop loss to be minimal, but more whispaws
34,55 works best in mid term trend and keeps you in trend for most of the time
I personally use 13,21 which works great on any interval.
My way to enter/exit is not at crossovers but when you have 2 continuous bars made their lows lower than 13MA and enter at the 3rd bar lower than 13MA
Similarly I ride the trend until you have 2 continuous bars made their highs higher than the 21MA and exit at the 3rd high bar
Try it out for once and you will be surprised to see the accuracy over normal periods
Here are few charts with the BUY/SELL signals
Here I am using 3 Years weekly chart and see how we get into the trend even before crossover came. I am using 21,34 as the chart is for a long term trend.
That is approx
5000 Nifty points in 2 years 3 months time frame (31 Aug 07 - 05 Nov 09)
ACC chart
there were times when the stock went from random walk zone where both MAs are near the same values... see if there is enough gap in MA around 2-5% of the values in such situations or look for bigger trend in weekly chart or bigger MA levels (34,55) to decide the position