Positive Channel EMA Trailing Stop Strategy

Pine ScriptTrend following RSI EMA ATR Heikin Ashi

Author: ChaoZhang
Complexity: Intermediate · 204 lines
Parameters: 3
Backtest bar: 1m · intraday
Tested on: BTC/USDT · futures

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Overview

This strategy is a channel-based stop loss strategy that utilizes the EMA indicator. It integrates trend judgment, channel tracking, and dynamic stop loss and other mainstream technical indicators. It determines bull and bear cycles by judging the order of EMAs and combines ATR channel tracking to implement stop loss so that the stop loss point can continue to track price movements. This kind of stop loss idea is more active and effectively avoids the probability of too aggressive stop loss being broken through.

Strategy Logic

The strategy mainly uses three EMA curves with different cycles to determine bull and bear state. The specific judging rules are:

EMA5>EMA20>EMA40 is a bull cycle
EMA20>EMA5>EMA40 is a bull cycle
EMA20>EMA40>EMA5 is a bull cycle
EMA40>EMA20>EMA5 is a bear cycle
EMA40>EMA5>EMA20 is a bear cycle
EMA5>EMA40>EMA20 is a bear cycle

After determining the bull and bear cycle, the strategy uses SMMA sampled K-line price and ATR indicator multiples as the channel range. Trading signals are only issued when the price breaks through this channel. In addition, after the trading signal is issued, the ATR dynamic tracking stop loss mechanism will be activated to adjust the stop loss position in real time to ensure that the stop loss point can follow the price movement to improve the effectiveness of stop loss.

Advantages

The main advantages of this strategy are:

Using EMA to judge bull and bear cycles can effectively capture turning points in market trends
Building entry points based on ATR channels avoids wrongly entering during market consolidations
ATR dynamic tracking stop loss can maximize profit locking and effectively control risks

Risks and Optimization

The main risks of this strategy are concentrated in the problems caused by improper parameter settings, such as overtrading and stop loss being broken through. Optimization can be done from the following aspects:

Optimize the combination of EMA cycle parameters to find the best parameter match
Optimize the ATR multiple size to prevent the stop loss from being too close or too far
Add other filtering indicators to avoid wrong entries during choppy markets

Conclusion

This strategy integrates multiple mainstream technical indicators and methods such as trend judgment, channel trading, and dynamic stop loss to form a relatively complete stop loss trading system. There is still great room for optimization in parameter tuning and risk control. It is suitable for investors who have high requirements for stop loss.

Parameters

Name	Default	What it controls
v_input_1	2	Key Vaule. 'This changes the sensitivity'
v_input_2	7	ATR Period
v_input_int_1	25	atr_length

Source Pine Script

/*backtest
start: 2023-12-10 00:00:00
end: 2023-12-12 04:00:00
period: 1m
basePeriod: 1m
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/
// © kgynofomo

//@version=5
strategy(title="[Salavi] | Andy Advance Pro Strategy [ETH|M15]",overlay = true, pyramiding = 1,initial_capital = 10000, default_qty_type = strategy.cash,default_qty_value = 10000)

ema_short = ta.ema(close,5)
ema_middle = ta.ema(close,20)
ema_long = ta.ema(close,40)

cycle_1 = ema_short>ema_middle and ema_middle>ema_long
cycle_2 = ema_middle>ema_short and ema_short>ema_long
cycle_3 = ema_middle>ema_long and ema_long>ema_short
cycle_4 = ema_long>ema_middle and ema_middle>ema_short
cycle_5 = ema_long>ema_short and ema_short>ema_middle
cycle_6 = ema_short>ema_long and ema_long>ema_middle

bull_cycle = cycle_1 or cycle_2 or cycle_3
bear_cycle = cycle_4 or cycle_5 or cycle_6
// label.new("cycle_1")
// bgcolor(color=cycle_1?color.rgb(82, 255, 148, 60):na)
// bgcolor(color=cycle_2?color.rgb(82, 255, 148, 70):na)
// bgcolor(color=cycle_3?color.rgb(82, 255, 148, 80):na)
// bgcolor(color=cycle_4?color.rgb(255, 82, 82, 80):na)
// bgcolor(color=cycle_5?color.rgb(255, 82, 82, 70):na)
// bgcolor(color=cycle_6?color.rgb(255, 82, 82, 60):na)

// Inputs
a = input(2, title='Key Vaule. \'This changes the sensitivity\'')
c = input(7, title='ATR Period')
h = false

xATR = ta.atr(c)
nLoss = a * xATR

src = h ? request.security(ticker.heikinashi(syminfo.tickerid), timeframe.period, close, lookahead=barmerge.lookahead_off) : close

xATRTrailingStop = 0.0
iff_1 = src > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) ? src - nLoss : src + nLoss
iff_2 = src < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and src[1] < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) ? math.min(nz(xATRTrailingStop[1]), src + nLoss) : iff_1
xATRTrailingStop := src > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and src[1] > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) ? math.max(nz(xATRTrailingStop[1]), src - nLoss) : iff_2

pos = 0
iff_3 = src[1] > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and src < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) ? -1 : nz(pos[1], 0)
pos := src[1] < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and src > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) ? 1 : iff_3

xcolor = pos == -1 ? color.red : pos == 1 ? color.green : color.blue

ema = ta.ema(src, 1)
above = ta.crossover(ema, xATRTrailingStop)
below = ta.crossover(xATRTrailingStop, ema)

buy = src > xATRTrailingStop and above
sell = src < xATRTrailingStop and below

barbuy = src > xATRTrailingStop
barsell = src < xATRTrailingStop




atr = ta.atr(14)
atr_length = input.int(25)
atr_rsi = ta.rsi(atr,atr_length)
atr_valid = atr_rsi>50

long_condition =  buy and bull_cycle and atr_valid
short_condition =  sell and bear_cycle and atr_valid

Exit_long_condition = short_condition
Exit_short_condition = long_condition

if long_condition
    strategy.entry("Andy Buy",strategy.long, limit=close,comment="Andy Buy Here")

if Exit_long_condition
    strategy.close("Andy Buy",comment="Andy Buy Out")
    // strategy.entry("Andy fandan Short",strategy.short, limit=close,comment="Andy Reorder short Here")
    // strategy.close("Andy fandan Buy",comment="Andy short Out")


if short_condition
    strategy.entry("Andy Short",strategy.short, limit=close,comment="Andy short Here")


// strategy.exit("STR","Long",stop=longstoploss)
if Exit_short_condition
    strategy.close("Andy Short",comment="Andy short Out")
    // strategy.entry("Andy fandan Buy",strategy.long, limit=close,comment="Andy Reorder Buy Here")
    // strategy.close("Andy fandan Short",comment="Andy Buy Out")




inLongTrade = strategy.position_size > 0
inLongTradecolor = #58D68D
notInTrade = strategy.position_size == 0
inShortTrade = strategy.position_size < 0

// bgcolor(color = inLongTrade?color.rgb(76, 175, 79, 70):inShortTrade?color.rgb(255, 82, 82, 70):na)
plotshape(close!=0,location = location.bottom,color = inLongTrade?color.rgb(76, 175, 79, 70):inShortTrade?color.rgb(255, 82, 82, 70):na)


plotshape(long_condition, title='Buy', text='Andy Buy', style=shape.labelup, location=location.belowbar, color=color.new(color.green, 0), textcolor=color.new(color.white, 0), size=size.tiny)
plotshape(short_condition, title='Sell', text='Andy Sell', style=shape.labeldown, location=location.abovebar, color=color.new(color.red, 0), textcolor=color.new(color.white, 0), size=size.tiny)


// //atr > close *0.01* parameter

// // MONTHLY TABLE PERFORMANCE - Developed by @QuantNomad
// // *************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************************
// show_performance = input.bool(true, 'Show Monthly Performance ?', group='Performance - credits: @QuantNomad')
// prec = input(2, 'Return Precision', group='Performance - credits: @QuantNomad')

// if show_performance
//     new_month = month(time) != month(time[1])
//     new_year  = year(time)  != year(time[1])
    
//     eq = strategy.equity
    
//     bar_pnl = eq / eq[1] - 1
    
//     cur_month_pnl = 0.0
//     cur_year_pnl  = 0.0
    
//     // Current Monthly P&L
//     cur_month_pnl := new_month ? 0.0 : 
//                      (1 + cur_month_pnl[1]) * (1 + bar_pnl) - 1 
    
//     // Current Yearly P&L
//     cur_year_pnl := new_year ? 0.0 : 
//                      (1 + cur_year_pnl[1]) * (1 + bar_pnl) - 1  
    
//     // Arrays to store Yearly and Monthly P&Ls
//     var month_pnl  = array.new_float(0)
//     var month_time = array.new_int(0)
    
//     var year_pnl  = array.new_float(0)
//     var year_time = array.new_int(0)
    
//     last_computed = false
    
//     if (not na(cur_month_pnl[1]) and (new_month or barstate.islastconfirmedhistory))
//         if (last_computed[1])
//             array.pop(month_pnl)
//             array.pop(month_time)
            
//         array.push(month_pnl , cur_month_pnl[1])
//         array.push(month_time, time[1])
    
//     if (not na(cur_year_pnl[1]) and (new_year or barstate.islastconfirmedhistory))
//         if (last_computed[1])
//             array.pop(year_pnl)
//             array.pop(year_time)
            
//         array.push(year_pnl , cur_year_pnl[1])
//         array.push(year_time, time[1])
    
//     last_computed := barstate.islastconfirmedhistory ? true : nz(last_computed[1])
    
//     // Monthly P&L Table    
//     var monthly_table = table(na)
    
//     if (barstate.islastconfirmedhistory)
//         monthly_table := table.new(position.bottom_center, columns = 14, rows = array.size(year_pnl) + 1, border_width = 1)
    
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 0,  0, "",     bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 1,  0, "Jan",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 2,  0, "Feb",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 3,  0, "Mar",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 4,  0, "Apr",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 5,  0, "May",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 6,  0, "Jun",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 7,  0, "Jul",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 8,  0, "Aug",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 9,  0, "Sep",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 10, 0, "Oct",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 11, 0, "Nov",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 12, 0, "Dec",  bgcolor = #cccccc)
//         table.cell(monthly_table, 13, 0, "Year", bgcolor = #999999)
    
    
//         for yi = 0 to array.size(year_pnl) - 1
//             table.cell(monthly_table, 0,  yi + 1, str.tostring(year(array.get(year_time, yi))), bgcolor = #cccccc)
            
//             y_color = array.get(year_pnl, yi) > 0 ? color.new(color.teal, transp = 40) : color.new(color.gray, transp = 40)
//             table.cell(monthly_table, 13, yi + 1, str.tostring(math.round(array.get(year_pnl, yi) * 100, prec)), bgcolor = y_color, text_color=color.new(color.white, 0))
            
//         for mi = 0 to array.size(month_time) - 1
//             m_row   = year(array.get(month_time, mi))  - year(array.get(year_time, 0)) + 1
//             m_col   = month(array.get(month_time, mi)) 
//             m_color = array.get(month_pnl, mi) > 0 ? color.new(color.teal, transp = 40) : color.new(color.gray, transp = 40)
            
//             table.cell(monthly_table, m_col, m_row, str.tostring(math.round(array.get(month_pnl, mi) * 100, prec)), bgcolor = m_color, text_color=color.new(color.white, 0))

Published by ChaoZhang on the FMZ strategy square · last modified 2023-12-18. Collected in the Quant Trading Vault. Unvalidated research: re-test with your own data and costs before trusting it.

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