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Moving Average Bollinger Bands RSI Combo Strategy

This strategy combines moving averages, Bollinger Bands and RSI to assess price trends and overbought/oversold levels for trade signals. It harnesses strengths of multiple indicators to improve accuracy. Strategy…

Author
ChaoZhang
Complexity
Intermediate · 88 lines
Parameters
9
Backtest bar
30m · intraday
Tested on
BTC/USDT · futures

This strategy combines moving averages, Bollinger Bands and RSI to assess price trends and overbought/oversold levels for trade signals. It harnesses strengths of multiple indicators to improve accuracy.

Strategy Logic:

  1. Calculate moving average and Bollinger Bands to determine price trend.

  2. Calculate RSI to identify overbought/oversold levels.

  3. Enter long when price breaks above BB lower band and RSI bullish crossover. Vice versa for short.

  4. Use stop loss to control loss per trade.

Advantages:

  1. Multi-indicator verification reduces bad trades.

  2. RSI complements limitations of MAs.

  3. BB identifies breakout levels.

Risks:

  1. Time-consuming to optimize multiple parameters.

  2. Some redundancy between RSI and BBs.

  3. Breakouts prone to failures and reversals.

In summary, this strategy combines MAs, BBs and RSI to identify both trend and reversal trade opportunities. Using multiple indicators can improve results but requires parameter optimization and risk control.

Parameters

NameDefaultWhat it controls
v_input_1_close0Price source: close | high | low | open | hl2 | hlc3 | hlcc4 | ohlc4
v_input_26(?RSI)RSI Length
v_input_350RSI Overbough
v_input_450RSI Oversold
v_input_550RSI Neutral
v_input_6200(?MABB)MA Length
v_input_7200BB Length
v_input_82BB multiplier
v_input_90MA type: SMA | EMA | HMA

Source Pine Script

/*backtest
start: 2023-08-13 00:00:00
end: 2023-09-12 00:00:00
period: 30m
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/
// © LucasVivien

//@version=4
strategy("MA Bolinger Bands + RSI ", shorttitle="MABB + RSI", overlay=true)

// User input
source   = input(title="Price source"    , type=input.source  , defval=close)
RSIlen   = input(title="RSI Length"      , type=input.integer , defval=6    , group="RSI") 
RSIlvlOB = input(title="RSI Overbough"   , type=input.integer , defval=50   , group="RSI")
RSIlvlOS = input(title="RSI Oversold"    , type=input.integer , defval=50   , group="RSI")
RSIN     = input(title="RSI Neutral"     , type=input.integer , defval=50   , group="RSI")
MAlen    = input(title="MA Length"       , type=input.integer , defval=200  , group="MABB")
BBlen    = input(title="BB Length"       , type=input.integer , defval=200  , group="MABB")
BBmult   = input(title="BB multiplier"   , type=input.float   , defval=2.0  , group="MABB" , tooltip="Set BB closer / appart", minval=0.001, maxval=50)
MAtype   = input(title="MA type"         , type=input.string  , defval="SMA", group="MABB" , tooltip="MA type used in BB", options=["SMA", "EMA", "HMA"])
//SLmult   = input(title="SL value"        ,type=input.float    , defval=0.06)

// Used indicators 
RSI = rsi(source, RSIlen)
MA  = sma(source, MAlen)

if MAtype == "EMA"
    MA := ema(source, MAlen)
if MAtype == "HMA"
    MA := hma(source, MAlen)

// Perform Calculations
BBdev   = BBmult * stdev(source, BBlen)
BBupper = MA + BBdev
BBlower = MA - BBdev

longSL  = close - close * 0.06
shortSL = close + close * 0.06

// Signals validation ([0] is trade displayed from strategy() on chart => long/short entry)
BBbull      = (open < BBlower) and (close > BBlower)
BBbear      = (open > BBupper) and (close < BBupper)

RSIbull     = crossover(RSI , RSIN)
RSIbear     = crossunder(RSI, RSIN)

Longsignal  = (BBbull) and (RSIbull or RSIbull[1] or
 RSIbull[2] or RSIbull[3] or RSIbull[4] or 
 RSIbull[5] or RSIbull[6] or RSIbull[7] or 
 RSIbull[8] or RSIbull[9] or RSIbull[10])
Shortsignal = (BBbear) and (RSIbear or RSIbear[1] or 
 RSIbear[2] or RSIbear[3] or RSIbear[4] or 
 RSIbear[5] or RSIbear[6] or RSIbear[7] or 
 RSIbear[8] or RSIbear[9] or RSIbear[10])

// Save SL values
var SLlongsaved  = 0.0 
var SLshortsaved = 0.0 
if Longsignal  and (strategy.position_size == -1) ///////////////////////////////
    SLlongsaved  := longSL 
if Shortsignal and (strategy.position_size == 1)  ////////////////////////////////
    SLshortsaved := shortSL

// Plots
  //plotshape(Longsignal , size=size.small, color=color.teal)
  //plotshape(Shortsignal, size=size.small, color=color.fuchsia)
plot(Longsignal  ? longSL  : na, color=color.red, style=plot.style_linebr, linewidth=6)
plot(Shortsignal ? shortSL : na, color=color.red, style=plot.style_linebr, linewidth=6)
p1 = plot(BBupper,title="Bollinger Bands Upper Line", color=color.gray, transp=60)
p2 = plot(BBlower,title="Bollinger Bands Lower Line", color=color.gray, transp=60)
plot(MA, title="Bollinger Bands MA Basis Line" , color=color.white, transp=50)
fill(p1, p2, color=color.white, transp=92)

// Strategy Entry & Exit
  //if Longsignal
strategy.entry(id="Long entry", long=true, when=Longsignal) //, oca_name="x", oca_type=strategy.oca.cancel)
  //if Shortsignal
strategy.entry(id="Short entry", long=false, when=Shortsignal) //, oca_name="x", oca_type=strategy.oca.cancel)
strategy.close(id="Long exit", when=strategy.position_size > 0)//, from_entry="Long entry"  //, when=strategy.position_size > 0 // , stop=SLlongsaved)
strategy.close(id="Short Exit", when=strategy.position_size < 0)//, from_entry="Short entry" //, when=strategy.position_size < 0 //, stop=SLshortsaved)

plot(strategy.position_size) //////////////////////////////////////////////

Published by ChaoZhang on the FMZ strategy square · last modified 2023-09-13. Collected in the Quant Trading Vault. Unvalidated research: re-test with your own data and costs before trusting it.

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