5 min chart - EMA vs. trendline

Hello, i try to thinking up a good trading system, i am a rookie, and i consider, which is better? EMA or trendline, what do you use more?

Regards

If you are using it for s/r than use the trendline, maybe?

I don't use either. Some people use moving averages but for a rookie it's far more important to learn about support/resistance. I urge you to learn about market behaviour around horizontal support and resistance levels formed by the daily, weekly and monthly charts.

As you probably know, our eyes and brain are constantly looking for pleasing patterns. This is an ancient instinct working. Here is an interesting article on this phenomenon: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/15/sc...l?pagewanted=1

A moving average is simply an average of the price over the last x periods and although sometimes has relevance to support and resistance or to show the trend it's usually the imagination at work. But to complicate matters, some traders actually use the 100ema, 200 ema, 100sma, 200sma, 50ema etc and so they sometimes become real. Please don't get suckered by that sort of thing. There is always someone who will say "Look! it worked perfectly there!"