hopefully you have more rules to your system than just  13/34 MA EMA cross,  A serious of filters that filter out bad trades, delay trades, have you enter earlier at times, exit earlier at times, because I showed the statistics the other day, following every 13/34 EMA cross is losing system over the long term.  MA systems need many other rules to them, they are not profitable with just the MA cross alone. 

sure it's up 60 points on this trade, the market is having big swings, any MA cross will work in that environment, it's in other market environments that it wont.  60 points in this market is a small move lately.

I would say that it got you in too late, the MA's crossed up on Wed.  However it was pretty obvious that the market put in some sort of capitulation low on Friday with the big hammers off the 200 day MA's, the 200 MA was an easy buy however another trigger was simply placing a buy stop over Friday's doji high, which triggerd on Monday morning, days before waiting for a 13/34 cross.  

If the market goes back to new highs from here and they recover this without much of a pullback, the 13/34 will probably keep  you in.  But if the market forms a higher low soay next week and pulls back again, waiting for the 13/34 EMA to cross back down would likely get you out very late

jtver - realize I didn't post those stats to mess with you, that was for any novices or newbies who may be here not to think they can just trade a 13/34 EMA to profits being that easy..

We actually had someone see your 13/34 EMA post I think it was last week, and send us a message telling us they were just gonna trade that since it looked good.   My post is to clear that up, the 13/34 EMA cross is no magic strategy, you have to employ many filters and decision making along with that 13/34 EMA cross to tell you when not to take signals, when to exit earlier, enter earlier etc.