This strategy generates the MACD indicator by calculating the difference between the fast and slow moving average lines, and judges the trend and overbought/oversold areas of the financial markets together with the signal line. It goes long when the MACD and signal line form a golden cross while the price is above the 200-day MA, and goes short when forms a dead cross while the price is below the 200-day MA. This belongs to a typical dual moving average crossover breakout strategy.
The basic logic is using the MACD indicator generated from the fast and slow MA difference to determine the market trend direction, and the signal line to judge the overbought/oversold levels. When MACD and signal line form a golden cross, it is a long signal to go long. When forms a dead cross, it is a short signal to go short. Meanwhile, it uses the price’s relationship with the 200-day MA to filter the signals, only taking long signals when price is above 200-day MA and short signals when price is below 200-day MA, so as to avoid whipsaws during strong trends.
The specific calculation method is:
When MACD crosses above signal line while they are both below 0, it is a golden cross long signal. When MACD crosses below signal line while they are both above 0, it is a dead cross short signal. Meanwhile, only taking long when price is above 200-day MA, and short when price is below 200-day MA.
Can lower risks by shortening MA periods, adding other indicators, and adding stop loss.
1.Tested on different timeframes from 15m upto 1D, optimal results on 4H in risk adjusted returns
2.Optimize fast and slow MA so MACD captures cycles, 7-21 good for 15m
3.Hull MA for MACD gave good results
4.Trailing stoploss improves risk management
This is overall a very simple and practical strategy, generating high probability trading signals through dual indicator system and price filtering. It has relatively high margin of profit, uses the classic MACD parameter combination to avoid over-optimization. There is still large room for optimization by adjusting the MA parameters, adding other indicators and stop loss mechanisms to further improve performance. Overall it is a typical quantitative strategy based on fundamentals.
/*backtest start: 2024-02-14 00:00:00 end: 2024-02-21 00:00:00 period: 1h basePeriod: 15m exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ // This source code is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public License 2.0 at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/ // © Hurmun //@version=4 strategy("Simple MACD strategy ", overlay=true, margin_long=100, margin_short=100) fast_length = input(title="Fast Length", type=input.integer, defval=12) slow_length = input(title="Slow Length", type=input.integer, defval=26) src = input(title="Source", type=input.source, defval=close) signal_length = input(title="Signal Smoothing", type=input.integer, minval = 1, maxval = 50, defval = 9) sma_source = input(title="Simple MA (Oscillator)", type=input.bool, defval=false) sma_signal = input(title="Simple MA (Signal Line)", type=input.bool, defval=false) // Plot colors col_grow_above = #26A69A col_grow_below = #FFCDD2 col_fall_above = #B2DFDB col_fall_below = #EF5350 col_macd = #0094ff col_signal = #ff6a00 // Calculating fast_ma = sma_source ? sma(src, fast_length) : ema(src, fast_length) slow_ma = sma_source ? sma(src, slow_length) : ema(src, slow_length) macd = fast_ma - slow_ma signal = sma_signal ? sma(macd, signal_length) : ema(macd, signal_length) hist = macd - signal movinga2 = input(title="movinga 2", type=input.integer, defval=200) movinga200 = sma(close, movinga2) plot(movinga200, "MA", color.orange) longCondition = crossover(macd, signal) and macd < 0 and signal < 0 and close > movinga200 if (longCondition) strategy.entry("My Long Entry Id", strategy.long) shortCondition = crossunder(macd, signal) and macd > 0 and signal > 0 and close < movinga200 if (shortCondition) strategy.entry("My Short Entry Id", strategy.short) shortProfitPerc = input(title="Short Take Profit (%)", minval=0.0, step=0.1, defval=2) / 100 longProfitPerc = input(title="Long Take Profit (%)", minval=0.0, step=0.1, defval=2) / 100 stoploss = input(title="stoploss in %", minval = 0.0, step=1, defval=2) /100 longStoploss = strategy.position_avg_price * (1 - stoploss) longExitPrice = strategy.position_avg_price * (1 + longProfitPerc) shortExitPrice = strategy.position_avg_price * (1 - shortProfitPerc) shortStoploss = strategy.position_avg_price * (1 + stoploss) if (strategy.position_size > 0 ) strategy.exit(id="XL TP", limit=longExitPrice, stop=longStoploss) if (strategy.position_size < 0 ) strategy.exit(id="XS TP", limit=shortExitPrice, stop=shortStoploss)template: strategy.tpl:40:21: executing "strategy.tpl" at <.api.GetStrategyListByName>: wrong number of args for GetStrategyListByName: want 7 got 6