Ripster Clouds
Plan the trade before open. 34/50 sets direction — price above means longs only. 5/13 fires the entry on the curl. VIX confirms the backdrop. When all three align, the verdict is clear: act, wait, or stand aside.
Combining the daily & 1-hour bias with the 10-min trigger…
Ripster's MTF cheat code: 34/50 on daily + 1H sets direction; 5/13 on 10-min fires the entry. Act only when all three line up.
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- 34/50
- Sets bias — above = longs, below = aside
- 5/13
- Entry trigger on the pullback curl
- MTF
- Act only when daily + 1H + 10-min agree Full guide ↓
Intraday · 10-min
5/13 trigger × 34/50 bias — for day trades.
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Swing · Daily
Same clouds on daily candles — higher-timeframe bias.
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$SPY 10-min candles with the Ripster EMA clouds — the 5/13 trigger cloud and the 34/50 bias cloud, shaded green when the fast EMA leads and red when it lags. Educational; ~10 min delayed.
How to read the Ripster Clouds
- 34/50
- Bias filter. Price above = longs only. Price below = shorts / stand aside.
- 5/13
- Entry trigger. Pull back to it, wait for the curl, enter — stop on a close back through.
- MTF
- Edge. Daily + 1H 34/50 set direction; 10-min 5/13 fires. Act only when all three line up.
How to use it — step by step
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Set the bias
Price above or below the 34/50? Longs only above; shorts only below.
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Wait for the pullback
Let price pull back to the 5/13 — don't chase mid-air.
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Enter on the curl/hold
Go when the 5/13 curls up and the cloud holds as support (🌀 curl long).
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Define the stop
Candle close back through the cloud = invalidation. That's your out.
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Pick the timeframe
10-minute for day trades, daily for swings — same rules, different clock.
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Move to breakeven, then trail
As price pushes your way, move stop to breakeven — remove risk. Then trail the cloud. Close back through = exit.
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Fail the MTF → flip the thesis
If a long fails the cloud (close below), it's not just a stop-out — it's a short signal. Ripster flips immediately. "Longs become shorts."
10:00–10:30 ET decides the session. The first 30 minutes after open are typically choppy and reversible — price is still discovering direction. Around 10 AM, the market commits: either a trend emerges or it chops for the day. Use this window as your benchmark and risk-management checkpoint.
- Take profits at 10 AM
- If you're green, take some off — or decide your next step. Locking in prevents a reversal from wiping the opening move.
- Stop out at 10 AM
- If the trade isn't working, cut it. The market is showing you something. Don't hold into chop hoping for a recovery.
- Read the verdict after 10:30
- Once the zone passes, the session bias is set. Combine the 10 AM action with the MTF read — if they agree, the edge is high.
Once price breaks through one cloud, the next cloud becomes the magnet. This is how Ripster sets profit targets without guessing — and why cloud trades run further than most traders expect.
- Cloud-to-cloud targets
- $SPY breaks above 5/13 → 34/50 is the next target. Breaks 34/50 → next timeframe's cloud. The chain tells you where to trail your stop.
- Riding the flush
- On shorts: price flushes from one cloud down to the next. "MTF to the MTF" — hold through the pull; trail stop to the cloud above. Don't exit between clouds.
- How to use it
- Before entry, identify where the next cloud sits on the $SPY clouds chart above. That band is your minimum target. Don't cut winners early if price hasn't reached the magnet yet.
VIX is a market direction filter, not just a fear gauge. Ripster watches which way VIX is curling — that's the signal, not the absolute level.
- VIX curling down
- Volatility falling. Bullish backdrop. Ripster goes long when VIX is weak and curling down — especially in the morning session.
- VIX curling up
- Volatility rising. Bearish signal. Ripster holds shorts and adds when VIX curls up. Combined with MTF rejection = highest-conviction short.
- VIX + MTF = A+ setup
- The VIX concept compounds with MTF. VIX curling down + price above 34/50 = go long on the 5/13 curl. VIX curling up + price rejecting 34/50 = Ripster's A+ short.
Live VIX curl direction shown in the intraday card above and the concept strip.
▶ Deep dive — clouds, bias, MTF, curls
The Ripster EMA Cloud system shades the area between two moving averages and uses it as dynamic support/resistance. Ripster stacks several (8/9, 20/21, and more), but two carry the signal — and those are the two we track on $SPY:
5/13 cloud — intraday trigger
The fast 5/13 cloud is the day-trade trendline. Price holding above it = intraday strength; a pullback into it (a "touch") that holds is the entry zone; a close below it breaks the setup.
34/50 cloud — trend / bias filter
The slower 34/50 cloud is the trend filter that sets your bias. Price over the 34/50 = bullish trend (dips are buyable); price under it = bearish (rallies are suspect). It plays this same role on every timeframe.
Intraday vs. swing — same clouds, different clock
"Intraday" and "swing" are timeframes, not clouds. We run both clouds on the 10-minute chart for the intraday day-trade read, and on the daily chart for the higher-timeframe swing read. The 5/13 is the trigger and the 34/50 is the bias filter in both — only the clock changes.
The MTF verdict — Ripster's cheat code
Ripster's biggest edge is multi-timeframe (MTF) alignment: overlaying a higher timeframe's bias on your execution chart. We do it across three clocks — the daily 34/50 (macro bias), the 1-hour 34/50 (intermediate bias), and the 10-min 5/13 (the trigger) — and distill them into the single verdict at the top of this page:
- Act — the daily and 1-hour agree on direction and the 10-min trigger has fired. Highest-conviction setup; trade it with the cloud as your stop.
- Wait — the higher timeframes agree, but the 10-min hasn't triggered yet. The bias is set; sit on your hands until the 5/13 reclaims (longs) or breaks down (shorts). Don't front-run it.
- Stand aside — the daily and 1-hour disagree (or neither is trending). There's no MTF edge; the disciplined move is to do nothing until they line up.
The dip-buy rule & curls
In an uptrend, wait for price to pull back to the 5/13 and curl back up — that's the entry. Stop on a close back through the cloud. On the short side: a bearish 34/50 turns 5/13 rallies into resistance; a downside curl is the short trigger.
Ripster's "512 calls"
Ripster uses the 5/12 EMA crossover on the 10-minute chart as his options entry trigger — when the fast 5 crosses above the 12, that's the call entry. He calls these "512 calls." We track the 5/13 cloud (5 and 13 EMA, not 12). In practice these signals fire within a bar of each other — same concept, one period apart. Combine with VIX curling down (long calls) or curling up (short puts) for the higher-conviction setup Ripster describes.
Ripster walks through all 5 concepts on a real trading day: morning MTF longs, 10 AM window, VIX direction filter, MTF magnet, and the 5/13 curl for options entries.
Watch on X (free) ↗Independent implementation of the publicly documented Ripster EMA Cloud framework — not affiliated with or endorsed by Ripster or Tenet Trade Group. Data from yfinance. Educational only; not investment advice.
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