The Moving Average Relative Strength Index Strategy is a quantitative trading strategy that utilizes both moving average lines and the Relative Strength Index (RSI) as trading signals to capture opportunities in market trends. This strategy generates trading signals by comparing the price moving average line with the value of the RSI index to catch reversal opportunities in the market.
This strategy is mainly based on two indicators:
The core logic of the strategy is:
When the RSI indicator line is lower than the moving average line, it is in the oversold region and indicates the stock is underestimated, generating a buy signal. When the RSI line is higher than the moving average line, it is in the overbought region and signals the stock is overvalued, thus producing a sell signal.
In other words, the moving average line reflects the fair value of the stock to some extent, while the RSI indicator represents the current strength or weakness of the price. When the RSI diverges from the moving average line, it implies a reversal opportunity.
Specifically, this strategy generates trading signals through the following steps:
By combining the trend judgment of moving averages and the overbought/oversold indication of RSI, this strategy can effectively determine inflection points in the market by leveraging the strengths of different indicators.
The main advantages are:
There are also some risks with this strategy:
To manage risks, optimizations can be made in the following ways:
Further optimization directions include:
Through parameter optimization, indicator optimization, risk management optimization etc, the stability and profitability of this strategy can be continuously improved.
The Moving Average RSI Strategy utilizes both price trend and overbought/oversold analysis to effectively identify market turning points and capture reversal opportunities. This simple, practical strategy has controllable risks and is useful for quantitative trading. Further optimization can lead to even better results.
/*backtest start: 2023-11-20 00:00:00 end: 2023-11-24 06:00:00 period: 10m basePeriod: 1m exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ //@version=2 strategy(title = "RSI versus SMA", shorttitle = "RSI vs SMA", overlay = false, pyramiding = 0, default_qty_type = strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value = 10, currency = currency.GBP) // Revision: 1 // Author: @JayRogers // // *** USE AT YOUR OWN RISK *** // - Nothing is perfect, and all decisions by you are on your own head. And stuff. // // Description: // - It's RSI versus a Simple Moving Average.. Not sure it really needs much more description. // - Should not repaint - Automatically offsets by 1 bar if anything other than "open" selected as RSI source. // === INPUTS === // rsi rsiSource = input(defval = open, title = "RSI Source") rsiLength = input(defval = 8, title = "RSI Length", minval = 1) // sma maLength = input(defval = 34, title = "MA Period", minval = 1) // invert trade direction tradeInvert = input(defval = false, title = "Invert Trade Direction?") // risk management useStop = input(defval = false, title = "Use Initial Stop Loss?") slPoints = input(defval = 25, title = "Initial Stop Loss Points", minval = 1) useTS = input(defval = true, title = "Use Trailing Stop?") tslPoints = input(defval = 120, title = "Trail Points", minval = 1) useTSO = input(defval = false, title = "Use Offset For Trailing Stop?") tslOffset = input(defval = 20, title = "Trail Offset Points", minval = 1) // === /INPUTS === // === BASE FUNCTIONS === // delay for direction change actions switchDelay(exp, len) => average = len >= 2 ? sum(exp, len) / len : exp[1] up = exp > average down = exp < average state = up ? true : down ? false : up[1] // === /BASE FUNCTIONS === // === SERIES and VAR === // rsi shunt = rsiSource == open ? 0 : 1 rsiUp = rma(max(change(rsiSource[shunt]), 0), rsiLength) rsiDown = rma(-min(change(rsiSource[shunt]), 0), rsiLength) rsi = (rsiDown == 0 ? 100 : rsiUp == 0 ? 0 : 100 - (100 / (1 + rsiUp / rsiDown))) - 50 // shifted 50 points to make 0 median // sma of rsi rsiMa = sma(rsi, maLength) // self explanatory.. tradeDirection = tradeInvert ? 0 <= rsiMa ? true : false : 0 >= rsiMa ? true : false // === /SERIES === // === PLOTTING === barcolor(color = tradeDirection ? green : red, title = "Bar Colours") // hlines medianLine = hline(0, title = 'Median', color = #996600, linewidth = 1) limitUp = hline(25, title = 'Limit Up', color = silver, linewidth = 1) limitDown = hline(-25, title = 'Limit Down', color = silver, linewidth = 1) // rsi and ma rsiLine = plot(rsi, title = 'RSI', color = purple, linewidth = 2, style = line, transp = 50) areaLine = plot(rsiMa, title = 'Area MA', color = silver, linewidth = 1, style = area, transp = 70) // === /PLOTTING === goLong() => not tradeDirection[1] and tradeDirection killLong() => tradeDirection[1] and not tradeDirection strategy.entry(id = "Buy", long = true, when = goLong()) strategy.close(id = "Buy", when = killLong()) goShort() => tradeDirection[1] and not tradeDirection killShort() => not tradeDirection[1] and tradeDirection strategy.entry(id = "Sell", long = false, when = goShort()) strategy.close(id = "Sell", when = killShort()) if (useStop) strategy.exit("XSL", from_entry = "Buy", loss = slPoints) strategy.exit("XSS", from_entry = "Sell", loss = slPoints) // if we're using the trailing stop if (useTS and useTSO) // with offset strategy.exit("XSL", from_entry = "Buy", trail_points = tslPoints, trail_offset = tslOffset) strategy.exit("XSS", from_entry = "Sell", trail_points = tslPoints, trail_offset = tslOffset) if (useTS and not useTSO) // without offset strategy.exit("XSL", from_entry = "Buy", trail_points = tslPoints) strategy.exit("XSS", from_entry = "Sell", trail_points = tslPoints)template: strategy.tpl:40:21: executing "strategy.tpl" at <.api.GetStrategyListByName>: wrong number of args for GetStrategyListByName: want 7 got 6