![[btcusdt-1h-20machart.png]] In this uptrend you can see the "bottom" is always the 20ma. In a downtrend the 20ma is always the top as it goes down So say you are in the middle of that chart above, and you think it goes higher. Since you're bullish you want to smash buy right away, right? But its prudent to wait for it to hit the 20ma first for better entry, because it always will. Finding a good entry is more important than potentially missing the trade altogether because a good entry means you won't puke on the next natural oscillation down. You can stomach a bit more of the range and if you bought at the very end of the uptrend, you would know very quickly if you had bought at the 20ma, because it just needs to go below and stay below for a couple candles to be more or less sure.