This is an automatic trading strategy based on candlestick patterns. The strategy identifies various candlestick pattern signals and enters positions when pattern conditions are met, with stop loss, take profit and trailing stop configured to control risks.
The strategy mainly identifies the following candlestick patterns as entry signals: engulfing pattern, harami pattern, piercing line/dark cloud cover, morning star/evening star, belt hold pattern, three white soldiers/three black crows pattern, three stars in the south pattern, etc. It goes long when bullish signals are detected, and goes short when bearish signals are detected.
In addition, stop loss, take profit and trailing stop are configured for risk control. Specifically, stop loss is set at certain percentage below the entry price, take profit targets certain pips above entry price, and trailing stop trails at certain dynamic level above entry. This effectively prevents losses beyond acceptable amount.
It’s worth noting that all positions are closed outside the trading session defined in the strategy, eliminating overnight risks.
The biggest edge of this strategy lies in using candlestick patterns, an effective technical indicator, to determine entries. Vast historical data has shown that certain distinctive candle formations often signify shifts in demand/supply dynamics and market psychology, thus providing good timing for entries.
Another advantage is the comprehensive risk control mechanisms in place. The stop loss, take profit and trailing stop could minimize losses beyond acceptable range substantially.
Finally, the strategy is flexible to run by tweaking pattern parameters and risk control parameters to suit different instruments and trading preferences.
The biggest risk of this strategy comes from the inherent instability of candlestick patterns themselves as technical indicators. Although candle patterns can clearly reflect market trend changes, they are also susceptible to market random fluctuations, leading to potentially false signals.
Moreover, there are no causal relationships between candle formations and subsequent price actions. Prices can go against expected pattern outcomes even when typical patterns are detected.
To mitigate above risks, strictly adhering to stop loss, take profit and trailing stop rules is essential. Combining candle patterns with other more stable indicators may also help avoid potential hazards resulting from sole reliance on technical patterns.
Given limitations of candle patterns, combining them with more robust indicators like Bollinger Bands, moving averages for trend, or oscillators like RSI and MACD could be worthwhile improving entry timing and signal quality.
Another prospective optimization direction is utilizing machine learning models trained on big historical data to uncover statistical relations between patterns and actual price movements, enhancing pattern signal accuracy.
Finally, this strategy could serve as a framework to be upgraded with more sophisticated algorithms for high-frequency trading, e.g. more delicate stop loss methods, complex modeling with more data interfaces through advanced languages.
In conclusion, this is a strategy worth live testing, using efficient candlestick patterns for signal entries, with comprehensive stop loss/take profit/trailing stop logic controlling risks. Coding Angle encourages optimizing based on this framework to generate better live results.
/*backtest start: 2024-01-01 00:00:00 end: 2024-01-31 23:59:59 period: 4h basePeriod: 15m exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ //@version=4 //DanyChe //The script allows you to test popular candlestick patterns on various instruments and timeframes. In addition, you can configure risk management (if the value is zero, it means the function is disabled), and you can also specify the time of the trading session (for example, so that the positions are not transferred to the next day). //The author is grateful to JayRogers and Phi35, their code examples helped a lot in writing the strategy. strategy("Candle Patterns Strategy", shorttitle="CPS", overlay=true) //--- Patterns Input --- OnEngulfing = input(defval=true, title="Engulfing") OnHarami = input(defval=true, title="Harami") OnPiercingLine = input(defval=true, title="Piercing Line / Dark Cloud Cover") OnMorningStar = input(defval=true, title="Morning Star / Evening Star ") OnBeltHold = input(defval=true, title="Belt Hold") OnThreeWhiteSoldiers = input(defval=true, title="Three White Soldiers / Three Black Crows") OnThreeStarsInTheSouth = input(defval=true, title="Three Stars in the South") OnStickSandwich = input(defval=true, title="Stick Sandwich") OnMeetingLine = input(defval=true, title="Meeting Line") OnKicking = input(defval=true, title="Kicking") OnLadderBottom = input(defval=true, title="Ladder Bottom") //--- Risk Management Input --- inpsl = input(defval = 100, title="Stop Loss", minval = 0) inptp = input(defval = 1000, title="Take Profit", minval = 0) inptrail = input(defval = 40, title="Trailing Stop", minval = 0) // If the zero value is set for stop loss, take profit or trailing stop, then the function is disabled sl = inpsl >= 1 ? inpsl : na tp = inptp >= 1 ? inptp : na trail = inptrail >= 1 ? inptrail : na //--- Session Input --- sess = input(defval = "0000-0000", title="Trading session") t = time('240', sess) session_open = na(t) ? false : true // --- Candlestick Patterns --- //Engulfing bullish_engulfing = high[0]>high[1] and low[0]<low[1] and open[0]<open[1] and close[0]>close[1] and close[0]>open[0] and close[1]<close[2] and close[0]>open[1] ? OnEngulfing : na bearish_engulfing = high[0]>high[1] and low[0]<low[1] and open[0]>open[1] and close[0]<close[1] and close[0]<open[0] and close[1]>close[2] and close[0]<open[1] ? OnEngulfing : na //Harami bullish_harami = open[1]>close[1] and close[1]<close[2] and open[0]>close[1] and open[0]<open[1] and close[0]>close[1] and close[0]<open[1] and high[0]<high[1] and low[0]>low[1] and close[0]>=open[0] ? OnHarami : na bearish_harami = open[1]<close[1] and close[1]>close[2] and open[0]<close[1] and open[0]>open[1] and close[0]<close[1] and close[0]>open[1] and high[0]<high[1] and low[0]>low[1] and close[0]<=open[0] ? OnHarami : na //Piercing Line/Dark Cloud Cover piercing_line = close[2]>close[1] and open[0]<low[1] and close[0]>avg(open[1],close[1]) and close[0]<open[1] ? OnPiercingLine : na dark_cloud_cover = close[2]<close[1] and open[0]>high[1] and close[0]<avg(open[1],close[1]) and close[0]>open[1] ? OnPiercingLine : na //Morning Star/Evening Star morning_star = close[3]>close[2] and close[2]<open[2] and open[1]<close[2] and close[1]<close[2] and open[0]>open[1] and open[0]>close[1] and close[0]>close[2] and open[2]-close[2]>close[0]-open[0] ? OnMorningStar : na evening_star = close[3]<close[2] and close[2]>open[2] and open[1]>close[2] and close[1]>close[2] and open[0]<open[1] and open[0]<close[1] and close[0]<close[2] and close[2]-open[2]>open[0]-close[0] ? OnMorningStar : na //Belt Hold bullish_belt_hold = close[1]<open[1] and low[1]>open[0] and close[1]>open[0] and open[0]==low[0] and close[0]>avg(close[0],open[0]) ? OnBeltHold :na bearish_belt_hold = close[1]>open[1] and high[1]<open[0] and close[1]<open[0] and open[0]==high[0] and close[0]<avg(close[0],open[0]) ? OnBeltHold :na //Three White Soldiers/Three Black Crows three_white_soldiers = close[3]<open[3] and open[2]<close[3] and close[2]>avg(close[2],open[2]) and open[1]>open[2] and open[1]<close[2] and close[1]>avg(close[1],open[1]) and open[0]>open[1] and open[0]<close[1] and close[0]>avg(close[0],open[0]) and high[1]>high[2] and high[0]>high[1] ? OnThreeWhiteSoldiers : na three_black_crows = close[3]>open[3] and open[2]>close[3] and close[2]<avg(close[2],open[2]) and open[1]<open[2] and open[1]>close[2] and close[1]<avg(close[1],open[1]) and open[0]<open[1] and open[0]>close[1] and close[0]<avg(close[0],open[0]) and low[1]<low[2] and low[0]<low[1] ? OnThreeWhiteSoldiers : na //Three Stars in the South three_stars_in_the_south = open[3]>close[3] and open[2]>close[2] and open[2]==high[2] and open[1]>close[1] and open[1]<open[2] and open[1]>close[2] and low[1]>low[2] and open[1]==high[1] and open[0]>close[0] and open[0]<open[1] and open[0]>close[1] and open[0]==high[0] and close[0]==low[0] and close[0]>=low[1] ? OnThreeStarsInTheSouth : na //Stick Sandwich stick_sandwich = open[2]>close[2] and open[1]>close[2] and open[1]<close[1] and open[0]>close[1] and open[0]>close[0] and close[0]==close[2] ? OnStickSandwich : na //Meeting Line bullish_ml = open[2]>close[2] and open[1]>close[1] and close[1]==close[0] and open[0]<close[0] and open[1]>=high[0] ? OnMeetingLine : na bearish_ml = open[2]<close[2] and open[1]<close[1] and close[1]==close[0] and open[0]>close[0] and open[1]<=low[0] ? OnMeetingLine : na //Kicking bullish_kicking = open[1]>close[1] and open[1]==high[1] and close[1]==low[1] and open[0]>open[1] and open[0]==low[0] and close[0]==high[0] and close[0]-open[0]>open[1]-close[1] ? OnKicking : na bearish_kicking = open[1]<close[1] and open[1]==low[1] and close[1]==high[1] and open[0]<open[1] and open[0]==high[0] and close[0]==low[0] and open[0]-close[0]>close[1]-open[1] ? OnKicking : na //Ladder Bottom ladder_bottom = open[4]>close[4] and open[3]>close[3] and open[3]<open[4] and open[2]>close[2] and open[2]<open[3] and open[1]>close[1] and open[1]<open[2] and open[0]<close[0] and open[0]>open[1] and low[4]>low[3] and low[3]>low[2] and low[2]>low[1] ? OnLadderBottom : na // ---Plotting --- plotshape(bullish_engulfing, text='Engulfing', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=true, title="Bullish Engulfing Text") plotshape(bearish_engulfing,text='Engulfing', style=shape.triangledown, color=#F35A54, editable=true, title="Bearish Engulfing Text") plotshape(bullish_harami,text='Harami', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=true, title="Bullish Harami Text") plotshape(bearish_harami,text='Harami', style=shape.triangledown, color=#F35A54, editable=true, title="BEarish Harami Text") plotshape(piercing_line,text='Piercing Line', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) plotshape(dark_cloud_cover,text='Dark Cloud Cover', style=shape.triangledown, color=#F35A54, editable=false) plotshape(morning_star,text='Morning Star', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) plotshape(evening_star,text='Evening Star', style=shape.triangledown, color=#F35A54, editable=false) plotshape(bullish_belt_hold,text='Belt Hold', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) plotshape(bearish_belt_hold,text='Belt Hold', style=shape.triangledown, color=#F35A54, editable=false) plotshape(three_white_soldiers,text='Three White Soldiers', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) plotshape(three_black_crows,text='Three Black Crows', style=shape.triangledown, color=#F35A54, editable=false) plotshape(three_stars_in_the_south,text='3 Stars South', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) plotshape(stick_sandwich,text='Stick Sandwich', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) plotshape(bullish_ml,text='Meeting Line', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) plotshape(bearish_ml,text='Meeting Line', style=shape.triangledown, color=#F35A54, editable=false) plotshape(bullish_kicking,text='Kicking', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) plotshape(bearish_kicking,text='Kicking', style=shape.triangledown, color=#F35A54, editable=false) plotshape(ladder_bottom,text='Ladder Bottom', style=shape.triangleup, color=#1FADA2, editable=false) // --- STRATEGY --- SignalUp = bullish_engulfing or bullish_harami or piercing_line or morning_star or bullish_belt_hold or three_white_soldiers or three_stars_in_the_south or stick_sandwich or bullish_ml or bullish_kicking or ladder_bottom SignalDown = bearish_engulfing or bearish_harami or dark_cloud_cover or evening_star or bearish_belt_hold or three_black_crows or bearish_ml or bearish_kicking strategy.entry("long", true, when = SignalUp and session_open) strategy.entry("short", false, when = SignalDown and session_open) strategy.close("long", when = not session_open) strategy.close("short", when = not session_open) strategy.exit("Risk Exit long", from_entry = "long", profit = tp, trail_points = trail, loss = sl) strategy.exit("Risk Exit short", from_entry = "short", profit = tp, trail_points = trail, loss = sl )template: strategy.tpl:40:21: executing "strategy.tpl" at <.api.GetStrategyListByName>: wrong number of args for GetStrategyListByName: want 7 got 6