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Guppy GMMA
Guppy GMMA is a Trend concept. The Library holds 3 implementations, each one a working definition you can pull into Quant.
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What is the Guppy GMMA?
The Guppy Multiple Moving Average, developed by Australian trader Daryl Guppy, plots two groups of six EMAs: a short-term group (traditionally 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 and 15 periods) standing in for traders, and a long-term group (30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 60) standing in for longer-horizon investors. Twelve lines print on the chart, but the analysis is about the behavior of the two groups, not any individual average.
The reading is relational. Wide, orderly separation within the long-term group is taken as investor commitment behind the trend; compression within either group signals agreement dissolving and a possible regime change; and the short-term group repeatedly pulling away from, then returning to, a well-separated long-term group maps the rhythm of traders probing while investors absorb. A full crossover of one group through the other is the slow, structural trend-change signal.
How traders use it
- As a trend-health dashboard: expansion and compression of the investor group are watched continuously, and a compressing long-term group is treated as a fragile trend regardless of what price itself is doing.
- For pullback entries: the classic GMMA continuation setup is the trader group dipping into a separated investor group and bouncing, an MA-stack version of buying tested dynamic support.
- As a slow regime signal: the entire short group crossing the long group is read like a broad moving average crossover, intended to be harder to whipsaw than a two-line cross, though sideways markets still generate false group crosses.
Guppy GMMA vs other MA stacks
MA Ribbon: A ribbon is any stack of moving averages at stepped lengths, read for ordering, fanning and compression. The GMMA is a specific, opinionated ribbon: two fixed six-EMA cohorts and an explicit trader-versus-investor interpretation of the gap between the groups.
Rainbow MA Stack: The rainbow builds its lines by recursively smoothing the same average (an MA-of-MA chain), so its bands are mathematically dependent on one another. GMMA lines are each computed independently from price, and the analysis hinges on the two-group structure rather than the full spectrum.
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Guppy GMMA FAQ
What are the standard Guppy GMMA settings?
Guppy's published groups are EMAs of 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 and 15 for the short-term set and 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 60 for the long-term set, applied on any timeframe. Traders do vary the lengths, but the two-cohort structure carries the logic; changing periods mostly shifts timing rather than meaning.
Is the Guppy GMMA a buy and sell signal system?
Not as designed. Guppy framed it as a way to read the relationship between short-term speculation and longer-term commitment, and full group crossovers arrive late by construction. Most users treat the GMMA as context for trend health and pullback quality, timing entries with separate triggers. Like any trend tool, it produces false reads in ranges.
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