This strategy employs a dual moving average system to identify potential breakout opportunities in selected stocks or cryptocurrencies. The core principle is to buy when the shorter-term moving average bounces back from below the longer-term moving average and sell when prices retest the longer-term moving average.
The strategy utilizes two simple moving averages (SMA) with different periods as trading signals. The first SMA has a longer period to represent the overall trend direction. The second SMA has a shorter period to capture short-term price fluctuations.
When the shorter-term SMA crosses above the longer-term SMA from below, it signals an uptrend in prices overall hence the strategy opens a long position. When prices pull back down to retest the longer-term SMA, it indicates the short-term pullback has ended and the strategy considers stopping out or taking profit on the position.
In addition, the strategy has “oversold” and “overbought” conditions to avoid trading in extreme situations. It only opens positions when both SMA crossover and reasonable valuation criteria are met.
There is further room to optimize this strategy:
This strategy combines the strengths of trend following and pullback trading using a dual moving average system to detect opportunities. At the same time, embedded overbought/oversold conditions avoid unnecessary position opening. It is a very practical quant trading strategy worth deeper research and optimization.
/*backtest start: 2023-02-20 00:00:00 end: 2024-02-26 00:00:00 period: 1d basePeriod: 1h exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ // @version=5 strategy("Profitable Pullback Trading Strategy", overlay=true,initial_capital=1000, default_qty_type=strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value=100) // Inputs ma_length1 = input.int(280,'MA length 1', step = 10,group = 'Moving Avg. Parameters', inline = 'MA') ma_length2 = input.int(13,'MA length 2', step = 1,group = 'Moving Avg. Parameters', inline = 'MA') sl = input.float(title="Stop Loss (%)", defval=0.07, step=0.1, group="Moving Avg. Parameters") too_deep = input.float(title="Too Deep (%)", defval=0.27, step=0.01, group="Too Deep and Thin conditions", inline = 'Too') too_thin = input.float(title="Too Thin (%)", defval=0.03, step=0.01, group="Too Deep and Thin conditions", inline = 'Too') // Calculations ma1 = ta.sma(close,ma_length1) ma2 = ta.sma(close,ma_length2) too_deep2 = (ma2/ma1-1) < too_deep too_thin2 = (ma2/ma1-1) > too_thin // Entry and close condtions var float buy_price = 0 buy_condition = (close > ma1) and (close < ma2) and strategy.position_size == 0 and too_deep2 and too_thin2 close_condition1 = (close > ma2) and strategy.position_size > 0 and (close < low[1]) stop_distance = strategy.position_size > 0 ? ((buy_price - close) / close) : na close_condition2 = strategy.position_size > 0 and stop_distance > sl stop_price = strategy.position_size > 0 ? buy_price - (buy_price * sl) : na // Entry and close orders if buy_condition strategy.entry('Long',strategy.long) if buy_condition[1] buy_price := open if close_condition1 or close_condition2 strategy.close('Long',comment="Exit" + (close_condition2 ? "SL=true" : "")) buy_price := na plot(ma1,color = color.blue) plot(ma2,color = color.orange)template: strategy.tpl:40:21: executing "strategy.tpl" at <.api.GetStrategyListByName>: wrong number of args for GetStrategyListByName: want 7 got 6