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WaveTrend Trend Following Trading Strategy

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Created: 2023-09-20 15:50:08
Last modified: 3 years ago
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Overview

This strategy uses the WaveTrend indicator to determine trend direction and generate trading signals at turning points. It belongs to trend following strategies.

Strategy Logic

  1. Calculate WaveTrend oscillator, positive value indicates uptrend and negative value downtrend.

  2. WaveTrend direction change produces buy and sell signals.

  3. Option to only trade long side.

  4. Enable arrows to mark WaveTrend turning points.

  5. Background color for intuitive trend visualization.

  6. Simple and clear strategy rules easy to implement.

Advantages

  1. WaveTrend sensitive in catching trend turns early.

  2. Visualized arrows and background color make intuitive signals.

  3. Simple and practical default parameters.

  4. Concise code easy to understand and modify.

  5. Flexibility to only trade long or short.

Risks

  1. WaveTrend may generate false signals causing unnecessary losses.

  2. Unable to determine trend strength, risks of chasing.

  3. Prone to whipsaws in ranging markets.

  4. Improper parameters negatively affect performance.

  5. No stop loss may lead to large losses.

Enhancement

  1. Test parameter combinations to find optimum.

  2. Add filters with other indicators to avoid false signals.

  3. Incorporate stop loss strategy for risk control.

  4. Evaluate necessity of only long or short.

  5. Toggle arrows based on market conditions.

  6. Optimize money management for more stable returns.

Conclusion

This strategy trades WaveTrend direction changes simply and viably, but has some risks. Improvements like parameter optimization, stops, filters can make it a stable and efficient trend following system.

Source
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/*backtest
start: 2023-09-12 00:00:00
end: 2023-09-19 00:00:00
period: 10m
basePeriod: 1m
exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}]
*/

// (c) Noro
//2017

//@version=2
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