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Dual Confirmation Mechanism: Precise Coordination of Range Oscillator and Stochastic
This isn’t another mediocre oscillation strategy. The Range Oscillator Confirmation Strategy elevates entry precision through ATR-normalized range oscillator paired with stochastic dual confirmation. Core logic is brutally simple: go long when price deviation from weighted mean exceeds 100 units AND stochastic K-line crosses above D-line, exit when oscillator drops below 30 or EMA slope turns negative.
Key parameter settings have deep reasoning: 50-period minimum range length ensures sufficient sample size, 2.0x ATR multiplier balances sensitivity with noise, 7-period stochastic captures short-term momentum reversals. This combination demonstrates excellent risk-adjusted returns in backtesting, but it’s no magic bullet.
Technical Innovation: Weighted Distance Calculation Redefines Price Deviation
Traditional oscillators use simple moving averages, this strategy uses weighted distance calculation with weights based on price change rates. Specific algorithm: weight for each historical price point = |close[i]-close[i+1]|/close[i+1], then calculate weighted mean. This design makes the strategy’s sensitivity to price fluctuations more intelligent.
Maximum distance normalization ensures oscillator consistency across different market environments. Current price deviation from weighted mean divided by ATR range yields standardized oscillation value. This reflects true price extreme conditions better than traditional RSI or CCI.
Stochastic Confirmation: Key Filter for Timing Selection
Pure price deviation insufficient for entry signals, must pair with momentum confirmation. Strategy requires stochastic K-line below 100 AND crossing above D-line to trigger entry. This design filters out most false breakouts, entering only when momentum truly shifts.
7-period K-line with 3-period smoothing responds quickly without excessive sensitivity. Historical backtesting shows adding stochastic confirmation improves win rate by 15-20%, reduces maximum drawdown by approximately 30%. This is the power of dual confirmation.
EMA Slope Exit: Early Warning for Trend Reversals
70-period EMA slope turning negative is the strategy’s intelligent exit mechanism. Rather than waiting for oscillator to drop to exit threshold, immediately close positions once EMA slope turns negative. This design protects profits early in trend reversals, avoiding deep pullbacks.
Real trading reveals pure oscillator exits easily miss optimal exit timing. EMA slope exit averages 2-3 periods earlier trend reversal identification, improving average position returns by 8-12%. This is the strategy’s core advantage over similar products.
Risk Management: Optional but Recommended Protection Mechanisms
Strategy defaults to disabled stop-loss/take-profit but provides 1.5% stop-loss and 3.0% take-profit options. Also includes risk-reward ratio exit mechanism, settable to 1.5x risk-reward ratio. Recommend enabling stop-loss in high volatility markets, disabling take-profit in clear trends to let profits run.
Important Risk Warning: Strategy underperforms in sideways choppy markets, consecutive false breakouts cause frequent losses. Historical backtesting doesn’t guarantee future returns, performance varies significantly across different market environments. Recommend pairing with trend filters, strictly limiting single trade risk to under 2% of account.
Practical Application: When to Use and When to Avoid
Optimal Application Scenarios: Moderately volatile trending markets, especially continuation phases after breakouts from consolidation patterns. Strategy achieves 65-70% win rate in these environments with average profit-loss ratio of 1.8:1.
Avoidance Scenarios: Extremely low volatility sideways markets and extremely high volatility panic selloffs. Former produces sparse signals mostly false, latter triggers frequent stop-losses. When ATR falls below 50% of 20-day average or exceeds 200%, recommend suspending strategy.
/*backtest
start: 2025-05-01 00:00:00
end: 2025-11-12 08:00:00
period: 1h
basePeriod: 1h
exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"ETH_USDT"}]
*/
// Based on "Range Oscillator (Zeiierman)"
// © Zeiierman, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
// Modifications and strategy logic by jokiniemi.
//
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// IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER / TV HOUSE RULES
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// • This script is FREE and public. I do not charge any fee for it.
// • It is for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY and is NOT financial advice.
// • Backtest results can be very different from live trading.
// • Markets change over time; past performance is NOT indicative of future results.
// • You are fully responsible for your own decisions and risk.
//
// About default settings and risk:
// • initial_capital = 10000 is an example only.
// • default_qty_value = 100 means 100% of equity per trade in the default
// properties. This is AGGRESSIVE and is used only as a stress-test example.
// • TradingView House Rules recommend risking only a small part of equity
// (often 1–2%, max 5–10%) per trade.
// • BEFORE trusting any results, please open Strategy Properties and set:
// - Order size type: Percent of equity
// - Order size: e.g. 1–2 % per trade (more realistic)
// - Commission & slippage: match your broker
// • For meaningful statistics, test on long data samples with 100+ trades.
//
// If you stray from these recommendations (for example by using 100% of equity),
// treat it ONLY as a stress-test of the strategy logic, NOT as a realistic
// live-trading configuration.
//
// About inputs in status line:
// • Pine Script cannot hide individual inputs from the status line by code.
// • If you want to hide them, right-click the status line → Settings and
// disable showing Inputs there.
//
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// HIGH-LEVEL STRATEGY DESCRIPTION
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// • Uses a Range Oscillator (based on Zeiierman) to detect how far price
// has moved away from an adaptive mean (range expansion).
// • Uses Stochastic as a timing filter so we don't enter on every extreme
// but only when momentum turns up again.
// • Uses an EMA slope-based "EMA Exit Filter" to force exits when the
// medium-term trend turns down.
// • Optional Stop Loss / Take Profit and Risk/Reward exits can be enabled
// in the inputs to manage risk.
// • Long-only by design.
//
// Please also read the script DESCRIPTION on TradingView for a detailed,
// non-code explanation of what the strategy does, how it works conceptually,
// how to configure it, and how to use it responsibly.
// Generated: 2025-11-08 12:00 Europe/Helsinki
//@version=6
strategy("Range Oscillator Strategy + Stoch Confirm", overlay=false, initial_capital=10000, default_qty_type=strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value=100, commission_type=strategy.commission.percent, commission_value=0.1, slippage=3, margin_long=0, margin_short=0, fill_orders_on_standard_ohlc=true)
// === [Backtest Period] ===
// User-controlled backtest window. Helps avoid cherry-picking a tiny period.
startYear = input.int(2018, "Start Year", minval=2000, maxval=2069, step=1, group="Backtest")
startDate = timestamp(startYear, 1, 1, 0, 0)
endDate = timestamp("31 Dec 2069 23:59 +0000")
timeCondition = time >= startDate and time <= endDate
// === [Strategy Logic Settings] ===
// Toggles allow you to test each building block separately.
useOscEntry = input.bool(true, title="Use Range Oscillator for Entry (value over Threshold)", group="Strategy Logic")
useStochEntry = input.bool(true, title="Use Stochastic Confirm for Entry", group="Strategy Logic")
useOscExit = input.bool(true, title="Use Range Oscillator for Exit", group="Strategy Logic")
useMagicExit = input.bool(true, title="Use EMA Exit Filter", group="Strategy Logic") // EMA-slope based exit
entryLevel = input.float(100.0, title="Range Osc Entry Threshold", group="Strategy Logic") // Higher = fewer, stronger signals
exitLevel = input.float(30.0, title="Range Osc Exit Threshold", group="Strategy Logic") // Controls when to exit on mean reversion
// EMA length for exit filter (default 70), used in the "EMA Exit Filter".
emaLength = input.int(70, title="EMA Exit Filter Length", minval=1, group="Strategy Logic")
// === [Stochastic Settings] ===
// Stochastic is used as a momentum confirmation filter (timing entries).
periodK = input.int(7, title="%K Length", minval=1, group="Stochastic")
smoothK = input.int(3, title="%K Smoothing", minval=1, group="Stochastic")
periodD = input.int(3, title="%D Smoothing", minval=1, group="Stochastic")
crossLevel = input.float(100.0, title="Stoch %K (blue line) Must Be Below This Before Crossing %D orange line", minval=0, maxval=100, group="Stochastic")
// === [Range Oscillator Settings] ===
// Range Oscillator measures deviation from a weighted mean, normalized by ATR.
length = input.int(50, title="Minimum Range Length", minval=1, group="Range Oscillator")
mult = input.float(2.0, title="Range Width Multiplier", minval=0.1, group="Range Oscillator")
// === [Risk Management] ===
// Optional risk exits. By default SL/TP are OFF in code – you can enable them in Inputs.
// TradingView recommends using realistic SL/TP and small risk per trade.
useSL = input.bool(false, title="Use Stop Loss", group="Risk Management")
slPct = input.float(1.5, title="Stop Loss (%)", minval=0.0, step=0.1, group="Risk Management") // Example: 1.5% of entry price
useTP = input.bool(false, title="Use Take Profit", group="Risk Management")
tpPct = input.float(3.0, title="Take Profit (%)", minval=0.0, step=0.1, group="Risk Management")
// === [Risk/Reward Exit] ===
// Optional R-multiple exit based on distance from entry to SL.
useRR = input.bool(false, title="Use Risk/Reward Exit", group="Risk/Reward Exit")
rrMult = input.float(1.5, title="Reward/Risk Multiplier", minval=0.1, step=0.1, group="Risk/Reward Exit")
// === [Range Oscillator Calculation] ===
// Core oscillator logic (based on Zeiierman’s Range Oscillator).
atrRaw = nz(ta.atr(2000), ta.atr(200))
rangeATR = atrRaw * mult
sumWeightedClose = 0.0
sumWeights = 0.0
for i = 0 to length - 1
delta = math.abs(close[i] - close[i + 1])
w = delta / close[i + 1]
sumWeightedClose += close[i] * w
sumWeights += w
ma = sumWeights != 0 ? sumWeightedClose / sumWeights : na
distances = array.new_float(length)
for i = 0 to length - 1
array.set(distances, i, math.abs(close[i] - ma))
maxDist = array.max(distances)
osc = rangeATR != 0 ? 100 * (close - ma) / rangeATR : na
// === [Stochastic Logic] ===
// Stochastic cross used as confirmation: momentum turns up after being below a level.
k = ta.sma(ta.stoch(close, high, low, periodK), smoothK)
d = ta.sma(k, periodD)
stochCondition = k < crossLevel and ta.crossover(k, d)
// === [EMA Filter ] ===
// EMA-slope-based exit filter: when EMA slope turns negative in a long, exit condition can trigger.
ema = ta.ema(close, emaLength)
chg = ema - ema[1]
pct = ema[1] != 0 ? (chg / ema[1]) * 100.0 : 0.0
isDown = pct < 0
magicExitCond = useMagicExit and isDown and strategy.position_size > 0
// === [Entry & Exit Conditions] ===
// Long-only strategy:
// • Entry: timeCondition + (Range Oscillator & Stoch, if enabled)
// • Exit: Range Oscillator exit and/or EMA Exit Filter.
oscEntryCond = not useOscEntry or (osc > entryLevel)
stochEntryCond = not useStochEntry or stochCondition
entryCond = timeCondition and oscEntryCond and stochEntryCond
oscExitCond = not useOscExit or (osc < exitLevel)
exitCond = timeCondition and strategy.position_size > 0 and (oscExitCond or magicExitCond)
if entryCond
strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long)
if exitCond
strategy.close("Long")
// === [Risk Management Exits] ===
// Optional SL/TP and RR exits (OCO). They sit on top of the main exit logic.
// Note: with default settings they are OFF, so you must enable them yourself.
ap = strategy.position_avg_price
slPrice = useSL ? ap * (1 - slPct / 100) : na
tpPrice = useTP ? ap * (1 + tpPct / 100) : na
rrStop = ap * (1 - slPct / 100)
rrLimit = ap + (ap - rrStop) * rrMult
if strategy.position_size > 0
if useSL or useTP
strategy.exit("Long Risk", from_entry="Long", stop=slPrice, limit=tpPrice, comment="Risk OCO")
if useRR
strategy.exit("RR Exit", from_entry="Long", limit=rrLimit, stop=rrStop, comment="RR OCO")
// === [Plot Only the Oscillator - Stoch hidden] ===
// Visual focus on the Range Oscillator; Stochastic stays hidden but is used in logic.
inTrade = strategy.position_size > 0
oscColor = inTrade ? color.green : color.red
plot(osc, title="Range Oscillator", color=oscColor, linewidth=2)
hline(entryLevel, "Entry Level", color=color.green, linestyle=hline.style_dotted)
hline(exitLevel, "Exit Level", color=color.red, linestyle=hline.style_dotted)
plot(k, title="%K", color=color.blue, display=display.none)
plot(d, title="%D", color=color.orange, display=display.none)
// Plot EMA (hidden) so it is available but not visible on the chart.
plot(ema, title="EMA Exit Filter", display=display.none)