ChaoZhang
Overview
The Ichimoku Kumo Twist Gold-Absorbing Strategy is a quantitative trading strategy that combines the Ichimoku market technical indicator and range filtering. It utilizes the Ichimoku indicator to determine market trends and important support and resistance levels, together with candlestick patterns to generate trading signals. Meanwhile, range filtering helps to control the trading frequency and risk.
Strategy Principle
The strategy is primarily based on the Ichimoku indicator and candlestick patterns to judge market trends. The Ichimoku contains the conversion line, base line and cloud lines, their crossover relationships indicate market trends. The cloud lines also act as support and resistance levels. The strategy sets up different parameter combinations to adjust the sensitivity of the Ichimoku lines. In addition, the strategy identifies patterns and generates buy signals when the conversion line crosses above the base line, and sell signals when crossing below.
Furthermore, the strategy has date range filters set up, so that it only trades within specified date ranges. This controls the trading frequency. Also, the stop loss setting helps to reduce risk by stopping the loss when price runs in an unfavorable direction.
Advantage Analysis
- Utilize Ichimoku indicator to judge market trends, parameters adjustable for sensitivity
- Clear trading signals from candlestick pattern recognition
- Date range filter controls trading frequency
- Stop loss setting for timely stop loss to reduce risk
Risk Analysis
- Ichimoku lagging may miss fast changing trends
- Date range filter may miss some trading chances
- Improper stop loss setting may expand losses
Methods like adjusting Ichimoku parameters, optimizing date range, amending stop loss points can improve and control risks.
Optimization Directions
- Test different parameter combinations to find optimal Ichimoku configuration
- Combine with other indicators to avoid Ichimoku lagging issues
- Backtest to optimize date range settings
- Set conditional dynamic trailing stop loss
Summary
The Ichimoku Kumo Twist Gold-Absorbing Strategy integrates the Ichimoku indicator, candlestick pattern recognition, range filtering to determine market trends. It can grasp trend directions quite clearly. Through means like parameter tuning, risk control etc, good strategy performance can be achieved. But the Ichimoku lagging problem should be noted, and continuous optimization adjustments made.
/*backtest
start: 2023-11-20 00:00:00
end: 2023-11-27 00:00:00
period: 3m
basePeriod: 1m
exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}]
*/
//@version=3
strategy(title="Ichimoku Kumo Twist Strategy (Presets)", shorttitle="Kumo Twist Strategy", overlay=true)
xlowest_(src, len) =>
x = src
for i = 1 to len - 1
v = src[i]
if (na(v))
break
x := min(x, v)
x
xlowest(src, len) =>
na(src[len]) ? xlowest_(src, len) : lowest(src, len)
xhighest_(src, len) =>
x = src
for i = 1 to len - 1
v = src[i]
if (na(v))
break
x := max(x, v)
x
xhighest(src, len) =>
na(src[len]) ? xhighest_(src, len) : highest(src, len)
dropn(src, n) =>
na(src[n]) ? na : src
ichiConversionPeriods(presets) =>
if presets == "Cpt 20 60 120 30"
20
else
if presets == "Cpt 10 30 60 30"
10
else
if presets == "Std 18 52 104 26"
18
else
9
ichiBasePeriods(presets) =>
if presets == "Cpt 20 60 120 30"
60
else
if presets == "Cpt 10 30 60 30"
30
else
if presets == "Std 18 52 104 26"
52
else
26
ichiLaggingSpan2Periods(presets) =>
if presets == "Cpt 20 60 120 30"
120
else
if presets == "Cpt 10 30 60 30"
60
else
if presets == "Std 18 52 104 26"
104
else
52
ichiDisplacement(presets) =>
if presets == "Cpt 20 60 120 30"
30
else
if presets == "Cpt 10 30 60 30"
30
else
if presets == "Std 18 52 104 26"
26
else
26
scaling = input(title="Scaling", options=["Linear", "Log"], defval="Linear")
presets = input(title="Presets", options=["Cpt 20 60 120 30", "Cpt 10 30 60 30", "Std 18 52 104 26", "Std 9 26 52 26"], defval="Cpt 20 60 120 30")
dropCandles = input(1, minval=0, title="Drop first N candles")
showClouds = input(false, "Show Clouds")
stoploss = input(true, title="Stop Loss")
conversionPeriods = ichiConversionPeriods(presets)
basePeriods = ichiBasePeriods(presets)
laggingSpan2Periods = ichiLaggingSpan2Periods(presets)
displacement = ichiDisplacement(presets)
logScaling = scaling == "Log"
lows = dropn(low, dropCandles)
highs = dropn(high, dropCandles)
lowsp = logScaling ? log(lows) : lows
highsp = logScaling ? log(highs) : highs
donchian(len) =>
avg(xlowest(lowsp, len), xhighest(highsp, len))
conversionLine = donchian(conversionPeriods)
baseLine = donchian(basePeriods)
leadLine1 = avg(conversionLine, baseLine)
leadLine2 = donchian(laggingSpan2Periods)
// === BACKTEST RANGE ===
FromMonth = input(defval = 10, title = "From Month", minval = 1)
FromDay = input(defval = 3, title = "From Day", minval = 1)
FromYear = input(defval = 2017, title = "From Year", minval = 2014)
ToMonth = input(defval = 1, title = "To Month", minval = 1)
ToDay = input(defval = 1, title = "To Day", minval = 1)
ToYear = input(defval = 9999, title = "To Year", minval = 2014)
golong = crossover(leadLine1, leadLine2)
goshort = crossunder(leadLine1, leadLine2)
strategy.entry("Buy", strategy.long, when=(golong and (time > timestamp(FromYear, FromMonth, FromDay, 00, 00)) and (time < timestamp(ToYear, ToMonth, ToDay, 23, 59))))
strategy.entry("Sell", strategy.short, when=(goshort and (time > timestamp(FromYear, FromMonth, FromDay, 00, 00)) and (time < timestamp(ToYear, ToMonth, ToDay, 23, 59))))
conversionLinep = logScaling ? exp(conversionLine) : conversionLine
baseLinep = logScaling ? exp(baseLine) : baseLine
leadLine1p = logScaling ? exp(leadLine1) : leadLine1
leadLine2p = logScaling ? exp(leadLine2) : leadLine2
plot(showClouds ? conversionLinep : na, color=#0496ff, title="Conversion Line")
plot(showClouds ? baseLinep : na, color=#991515, title="Base Line")
p1 = plot(showClouds ? leadLine1p : na, offset = displacement, color=green, title="Lead 1")
p2 = plot(showClouds ? leadLine2p : na, offset = displacement, color=red, title="Lead 2")
fill(p1, p2, color = showClouds ? (leadLine1p > leadLine2p ? green : red) : na)