AlexIncs Bar v12 Breakout Accumulation Strategy Based on Meaningful Bar Filtering
This strategy predicts trends by judging the "meaningful bar" of K-lines, and generates trading signals combined with breakout signals. The strategy filters out excessively small K-lines and only analyzes "meaningful…

Overview
This strategy predicts trends by judging the "meaningful bar" of K-lines, and generates trading signals combined with breakout signals. The strategy filters out excessively small K-lines and only analyzes "meaningful bars" to avoid interference from frequent minor fluctuations, making the signals smoother and more reliable.
Strategy Logic
Judge the entity length body of the current K-line. If it is greater than 3 times the average body value of the past 6 K-lines, it is considered a "meaningful bar".
If there are 3 consecutive "meaningful bars" with long bodies, it is judged as a long signal. If 3 consecutive bars with short bodies, it is judged as a short signal.
While judging the signal, if the price breaks through the previous high or low point, additional trading signals will also be generated.
Use SMA as a filter. Open positions only when the price breaks through the SMA.
After taking a position, if the price breaks through the entry point or SMA again, close the position.
Advantage Analysis
Using "meaningful bars" to judge trends can filter out unnecessary interference and make clearer signals.
Combining trend signals and breakout signals improves signal quality and reduces false signals.
SMA filters avoid buying high and selling low. Only buy below Close, sell above Close, thus improving reliability.
Setting profit taking and stop loss conditions facilitates timely risk control.
Risk Analysis
This aggressive strategy judges signals from only 3 bars and may misjudge short-term fluctuations as trend reversals.
Insufficient backtesting data. Results may vary between products and timeframes.
No overnight position control, with overnight holding risk.
Optimization Directions
Further optimize parameters for "meaningful bars", such as number of bars judged and definition of "meaningful".
Test impacts of different timeframes to find optimum parameters.
Add ATR based stop loss to control risks.
Consider adding overnight position control.
Summary
This strategy utilizes "meaningful bar" filtering and trend judgment to generate trading signals combined with breakouts. It effectively filters out unnecessary minor fluctuations for clearer and more reliable signals. However, due to short judging cycles, certain misjudgment risks exist. Further improvements can be made through parameter optimization and risk control.
Parameters
| Name | Default | What it controls |
|---|---|---|
| v_input_1 | true | Long |
| v_input_2 | true | Short |
| v_input_3 | false | Use Martingale |
| v_input_4 | 6 | Number of candles to take profit anyway |
| v_input_5 | 100 | Capital, % |
| v_input_6 | false | Use SMA filter |
| v_input_7 | 10 | SMA filter limit |
| v_input_8 | 3 | Body Size Multiplier |
| v_input_9 | 3 | Meanful Bar size Divider |
| v_input_10 | false | Show Arrows |
| v_input_11 | 2018 | From Year |
| v_input_12 | 2100 | To Year |
| v_input_13 | true | From Month |
| v_input_14 | 12 | To Month |
| v_input_15 | true | From day |
| v_input_16 | 31 | To day |
Source Pine Script
/*backtest
start: 2023-12-26 00:00:00
end: 2024-01-02 00:00:00
period: 30m
basePeriod: 15m
exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}]
*/
//AlexInc
//2018
// закрытие - вычислить и в течение скольки-то баров его добиваться
// если нет, то по первому противоположному
// по стоп-лоссу в любом случае - стоп вычислить
//@version=2
strategy(title = "AlexInc's Bar v1.2", shorttitle = "AlexInc Bar 1.2", overlay = true, default_qty_type = strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value = 100, pyramiding = 0)
//Settings
needlong = input(true, defval = true, title = "Long")
needshort = input(true, defval = true, title = "Short")
usemar = input(false, defval = false, title = "Use Martingale")
tryprofitbars = input(6, defval = 6, minval = 1, maxval = 100, title = "Number of candles to take profit anyway")
capital = input(100, defval = 100, minval = 1, maxval = 10000, title = "Capital, %")
useSMAfilter = input(false, defval = true, title = "Use SMA filter")
SMAlimit = input(10, defval = 10, minval = 1, maxval = 30, title = "SMA filter limit")
bodysizeMlt = input(3, defval = 3, minval = 1, maxval = 10, title = "Body Size Multiplier")
meanfulbardiv = input(3, title = "Meanful Bar size Divider")
showarr = input(false, defval = false, title = "Show Arrows")
fromyear = input(2018, defval = 2018, minval = 1900, maxval = 2100, title = "From Year")
toyear = input(2100, defval = 2100, minval = 1900, maxval = 2100, title = "To Year")
frommonth = input(01, defval = 01, minval = 01, maxval = 12, title = "From Month")
tomonth = input(12, defval = 12, minval = 01, maxval = 12, title = "To Month")
fromday = input(01, defval = 01, minval = 01, maxval = 31, title = "From day")
today = input(31, defval = 31, minval = 01, maxval = 31, title = "To day")
//SMA #
index = 0
index := barstate.isfirst ==true ? 0 : nz(index[1])+1
buyindex = 0
buyindex := barstate.isfirst ==true ? 0 : buyindex[1]
sellindex = 0
sellindex := barstate.isfirst ==true ? 0 : sellindex[1]
//predictprofit = barstate.isfirst ==true ? 0 : predictprofit[1]
smafilter = sma(close, SMAlimit)
//Body
body = abs(close - open)
range = abs(high - low)
abody = sma(body, 6)
max3 = 0
if body >= body[1] and body >= body[2]
max3 := body
else
if body[1] >= body and body[1] >= body[2]
max3 := body[1]
else
if body[2] >= body and body[2] >= body[1]
max3 := body[2]
prevmax3 = 0
prevmax3 := nz(max3[1])
bar = close > open ? 1 : close < open ? -1 : 0
firstbullishopen = 0
firstbullishopen := bar == 1 and bar[1] != 1 ? open : nz(firstbullishopen[1])
firstbearishopen = 0
firstbearishopen := bar == -1 and bar[1] != -1 ? open : nz(firstbearishopen[1])
meanfulbar = body > abody / meanfulbardiv
meanfulbearish = 0
meanfulbearish := nz(meanfulbearish[1])
meanfulbullish = 0
meanfulbullish := nz(meanfulbullish[1])
if meanfulbar
if bar == 1
meanfulbullish := 1 + meanfulbullish
meanfulbearish := 0
else
if bar == -1
meanfulbearish := 1 + meanfulbearish
meanfulbullish := 0
plot(min(low, high)-10, style=circles, color = meanfulbar ? yellow:black, linewidth=3)
//Signals
up1 = (meanfulbearish >= 3) and (close < firstbullishopen or 1) and (strategy.position_size == 0 or close < strategy.position_avg_price) and body > abody / 5 and (useSMAfilter == false or close < smafilter)
if up1 == true
predictprofit = sma(body, 3)
up2 = sma(bar, 1) == -1 and body > prevmax3 * bodysizeMlt and (strategy.position_size == 0 or close < strategy.position_avg_price) and body > abody / 5 and (useSMAfilter == false or close < smafilter)
if up2 == true
predictprofit = body * 0.5
plot(min(low, high), style=circles, color = up1?blue:up2?green:gray, linewidth=3)
dn1 = (meanfulbullish >= 3) and (close > firstbearishopen or 1) and (strategy.position_size == 0 or close > strategy.position_avg_price) and body > abody / 5 and (useSMAfilter==false or close > smafilter)
if dn1 ==true
predictprofit = sma(body, 3)
dn2 = sma(bar, 1) == 1 and body > prevmax3 * bodysizeMlt and (strategy.position_size == 0 or close > strategy.position_avg_price) and body > abody / 5 and (useSMAfilter==false or close > smafilter)
if dn2 ==true
predictprofit = body * 0.5
plot(max(low, high), style=circles, color = dn1?blue:dn2?green:gray, linewidth=3)
exit = (((strategy.position_size > 0 and bar == 1 ) or (strategy.position_size < 0 and bar == -1)) and body > abody / 2 )
// or index >= buyindex (or sellindex) + tryprofitbars
//Arrows
col = exit ? black : up1 or dn1 ? blue : up2 or dn2 ? red : na
needup = up1 or up2
needdn = dn1 or dn2
needexitup = exit and strategy.position_size < 0
needexitdn = exit and strategy.position_size > 0
plotarrow(showarr and needup ? 1 : na, colorup = blue, colordown = blue, transp = 0)
plotarrow(showarr and needdn ? -1 : na, colorup = blue, colordown = blue, transp = 0)
plotarrow(showarr and needexitup ? 1 : na, colorup = black, colordown = black, transp = 0)
plotarrow(showarr and needexitdn ? -1 : na, colorup = black, colordown = black, transp = 0)
//Trading
profit = exit ? ((strategy.position_size > 0 and close > strategy.position_avg_price) or (strategy.position_size < 0 and close < strategy.position_avg_price)) ? 1 : -1 : profit[1]
mult = usemar ? exit ? profit == -1 ? mult[1] * 2 : 1 : mult[1] : 1
lot = strategy.position_size == 0 ? strategy.equity / close * capital / 100 * mult : lot[1]
if up1 or up2
if strategy.position_size < 0
strategy.close_all()
buyindex = index
sellindex = index
if strategy.position_size == 0
buyindex = index
strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long, needlong == false ? 0 : lot )
if dn1 or dn2
if strategy.position_size > 0
strategy.close_all()
buyindex = index
sellindex = index
if strategy.position_size == 0
sellindex = index
strategy.entry("Short", strategy.short, needshort == false ? 0 : lot )
if exit
strategy.close_all()Published by ChaoZhang on the FMZ strategy square · last modified 2024-01-03. Collected in the Quant Trading Vault. Unvalidated research: re-test with your own data and costs before trusting it.
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