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Monday Reversal Intraday Trend Following Strategy

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Created: 2023-11-06 15:34:06
Last modified: 3 years ago
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Overview

The main idea of this strategy is to profit from Monday's intraday reversal using trend following.

Principles

The core logic is:

  1. Check if it is Monday, if yes, continue to next steps;

  2. Identify if an uptrend reversal pattern exists - Close[1] < Close[2] and Close[2] < Close[3];

  3. If reversal pattern confirmed, go long at the close of 3rd bar to follow the trend;

  4. Exit if today's high is breached, or stop loss is hit;

  5. Close position after 6 hours.

The strategy capitalizes on specific Monday reversal, identifies reversal patterns to go long at relative lows for profits. Stop loss in place to control risks.

Advantages

The biggest advantages are:

  1. Profits from Monday reversals during specific periods;

  2. Clear entry signals from reversal candlestick patterns;

  3. Stop loss and take profit to control risks;

  4. Trend following approach maximizes profits;

  5. Simple and easy to understand logic;

Risks

There are some risks:

  1. Losses if Monday reversals not significant;

  2. Price may retrace after entry leading to stop loss;

  3. Sudden market changes may result in large stop loss;

  4. Holding too long may also lead to losses;

The solutions are optimizing stop loss, shortening holding time, and controlling single loss size.

Enhancements

The strategy can be improved by:

  1. Using machine learning to identify reversals more accurately;

  2. Optimizing stop loss strategies like trailing stop or partial stop loss;

  3. Incorporating more factors to judge trend strength;

  4. Dynamically adjusting holding time;

  5. Using algorithms to find optimal parameters;

  6. Adding position switching for two-way trading;

These can increase the win rate and profitability.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the strategy capitalizes on Monday reversals, with clear entry/exit rules, to implement a simple trend following strategy. It can achieve better results than fixed stop loss/take profit. Further optimizations are needed to address market uncertainty. The strategy provides a reference for intraday trading.

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/*backtest
start: 2023-10-06 00:00:00
end: 2023-11-05 00:00:00
period: 1h
basePeriod: 15m
exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}]
*/

//@version=4
strategy("ET Forex TurnaroundMonday", overlay=true)
FirstYear = input(2018, minval=2000, maxval=2023, step=1)
FirstMonth = 1 //input(1, minval=1, maxval=12, step=1)
Strategy parameters
Strategy parameters
FirstYear
deltaDay
StartHour
HoldTime
MM
startHour
endHour
exitHour
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