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RSI Trend Following Strategy with Trailing Stop Loss 440544

This is a quantitative trading strategy that utilizes the RSI indicator to determine the market trend and sets stop loss and take profit to lock in profits and minimize risks.

Author
ChaoZhang
Complexity
Intermediate · 107 lines
Parameters
13
Backtest bar
1h · intraday
Tested on
BTC/USDT · futures

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Overview

This is a quantitative trading strategy that utilizes the RSI indicator to determine the market trend and sets stop loss and take profit to lock in profits and minimize risks.

Strategy Logic

The strategy mainly uses the RSI indicator to determine the market trend direction for long or short trades. When the RSI line crosses above the lower line, it is determined as an upward trend and goes long. When the RSI line crosses below the upper line, it is judged as a downward trend and goes short.

At the same time, the strategy tracks the entry price of each order and sets a floating stop loss and take profit. For long orders, a certain percentage of the entry price is set as the stop loss line, and for short orders, a certain percentage of the entry price is set as the take profit line. When the price hits the stop loss or take profit line, the position will be closed automatically.

Advantages

  • Use RSI indicator to determine market trend, avoid trading in range-bound markets;
  • Set floating stop loss and take profit to lock in profits flexibly and control risks effectively;
  • RSI parameters and stop loss/take profit ratios are adjustable for optimization.

Risks

  • RSI indicator has some lagging, may miss short-term trend reversal points;
  • Stop loss and take profit lines that are too close may get hit easily.

Optimization

  • Test RSI indicators with different periods;
  • Test different parameter combinations to find the optimal stop loss/take profit ratios;
  • Add additional indicators for signal filtering.

Conclusion

In summary, this is a quantitative trading strategy that uses RSI indicator to track trends and incorporate floating stop loss and take profit. Compared to single indicator strategies, this strategy manages risks quite well by locking in profits flexibly. Further improvements can be made through parameters optimization and adding auxiliary indicators.

Parameters

NameDefaultWhat it controls
v_input_int_18(?Signals)5 day input or RSI1
v_input_int_228RSI Lower
v_input_int_372RSI Upper
v_input_int_4200EMA Period
v_input_int_5trueLook back days for close/open
v_input_int_65(?Order Controls)max open orders
v_input_int_740Buy breakout range
v_input_float_11.15(?TPSL)Buy TP: 1+TP %, .05 seems to work well.
v_input_float_20.975Sell TP: 1-TP%. .025 seems to work well.
v_input_bool_1false(?Alerts)Turns on Buy/Sell Alerts
v_input_bool_2falseUse default Buy/Sell or the messages below
v_input_1BuyBuy signal API/TXT message template
v_input_2SellSell signal API/TXT message template

Source Pine Script

/*backtest
start: 2023-12-01 00:00:00
end: 2023-12-31 23:59:59
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/
// ©chewyScripts.

//@version=5
strategy("96er RSI+200EMA Strategy + Alerts", overlay=true, shorttitle = "The old 96er - RSI5 + 200 EMA")
//,use_bar_magnifier=false 
// This works best on a small account $100, with 50% of equity and up to 10 max open trades. 
// 96% Profitable, turns $100 into $350 in 1 month. very few losses. super happy with it.
// So far it triples the account on a 1m chart in 1 month back testing on the SEI-USD pair.
// I did not test on FX pairs or other instruments.
// had some issues with the inputs not working so had to hard code some, also the lastClose var sometimes breaks and starts following every candle, not sure why.

in_r1 = input.int(8,"5 day input or RSI1", group = "Signals")
in_lowerRSI = input.int(28,"RSI Lower", group = "Signals")
in_upperRSI = input.int(72,"RSI Upper ", group = "Signals")
in_emaperiod = input.int(200,"EMA Period", group = "Signals")
in_daysback = input.int(1,"Look back days for close/open", group = "Signals")

in_openOrders = input.int(5,"max open orders",tooltip = "Be careful, to high and you will get margin called!! 5 is probably the highest you should go", group = "Order Controls")
in_buybreakout = input.int(40,"Buy breakout range", group = "Order Controls")

in_buyTP = input.float(1.1500,"Buy TP: 1+TP %, .05 seems to work well.", group = "TPSL")
in_sellTP = input.float(0.9750, "Sell TP: 1-TP%. .025 seems to work well. ", group = "TPSL")

in_useAlerts = input.bool(false,"Turns on Buy/Sell Alerts",group = "Alerts")
in_useCustomAlertMSG = input.bool(false,"Use default Buy/Sell or the messages below",group = "Alerts")
in_alertBuySignalTxt = input("Buy","Buy signal API/TXT message template", tooltip = "Review the UserGuid on JSON varibles in alerts", group = "Alerts")
in_alertSellSignalTxt = input("Sell","Sell signal API/TXT message template", tooltip = "Review the UserGuid on JSON varibles in alerts", group = "Alerts")

simple int rsi5 = in_r1

// 3 rsi strategy , when all of them are overbought we sell, and vice versa
rsi7 = ta.rsi(close,rsi5)
[lastOpen, lastClose] = request.security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", [open,close], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
rsi3 = ta.rsi(close[5],rsi5)

ma = ta.ema(close,in_emaperiod)

plot(rsi7,"5 Day RSI",color.red)
plot(lastClose,"Previous Days Close",color.green)
plot(lastOpen,"Previous Days Open",color.white)
plot(rsi3,"Previous 5th candles RSI",color.purple)
plot(ma,"200 EMA",color.blue)


//sell = ta.crossunder(rsi7,70) and ta.crossunder(rsi14,70) and ta.crossunder(rsi21,70)
//buy = ta.crossover(rsi7,in_lowerRSI) and close < ma and rsi3 <= in_upperRSI and strategy.opentrades < in_openOrders
//sell = ta.crossunder(rsi7,in_upperRSI) and close > ma and rsi3 >= in_lowerRSI3 and strategy.opentrades < in_openOrders

//buy condition
buy = ta.crossover(rsi7,in_lowerRSI) and close < ma and close < lastClose and strategy.opentrades < in_openOrders

// sell condition
sell = ta.crossunder(rsi7,in_upperRSI) and close > ma and close > lastClose and strategy.opentrades < in_openOrders


var lastBuy = close 
var lastSell = close 
//var buyLabel = label.new(na,na,yloc = yloc.belowbar, style = label.style_none, textcolor = color.green, size = size.normal)
//var sellLabel = label.new(na,na,yloc = yloc.abovebar, style = label.style_none, textcolor = color.red, size = size.normal)
if (buy)
    strategy.entry("BUY", strategy.long,alert_message = "Buy @"+str.tostring(close))
    lastBuy := close 
    //buyLabel := label.new(na,na,yloc = yloc.belowbar, style = label.style_none, textcolor = color.green, size = size.normal)
    //label.set_x(buyLabel,bar_index)
    //label.set_y(buyLabel,low)
    //label.set_text(buyLabel,"Buy!!@ " +str.tostring(lastBuy)  + "\n TP: " + str.tostring(lastBuy*in_buyTP) + "\n↑")
    if(not in_useAlerts)
        alert("Buy")

//label.delete(buyLabel)

if ((close >= lastBuy*in_buyTP ) or (rsi7 > in_buybreakout) and close >= lastClose and (close >= lastClose*in_buyTP or close >= lastBuy*in_buyTP ) )
    //label.new(bar_index,na,"TP!!@ " +str.tostring(close), yloc = yloc.abovebar, style = label.style_none, textcolor = color.green, size = size.normal)
    strategy.close("BUY", "BUY Exit",alert_message = "Buy Exit: TP @" +str.tostring(close) + " OR TP: " + str.tostring(lastBuy*in_buyTP))    
    if(not in_useAlerts)
        alert("Buy Exit")
    
if (sell)
    strategy.entry("SELL", strategy.short, alert_message = "Sell @ " + str.tostring(close))
    lastSell := close    
    //sellLabel := label.new(na,na,yloc = yloc.abovebar, style = label.style_none, textcolor = color.red, size = size.normal)
    //label.set_x(sellLabel,bar_index)
    //label.set_y(sellLabel,high)
    //label.set_text(sellLabel,"Sell!!@ " +str.tostring(lastSell)  + "\n TP: " + str.tostring(lastSell*in_sellTP) + "\n?")
    if(not in_useAlerts)
        alert("Sell")

//label.delete(sellLabel)

if ( close < ma and (close <= lastSell*in_sellTP ) or (close < lastClose*in_sellTP) )
    //label.new(bar_index,na,"TP!!@ " +str.tostring(close), yloc = yloc.belowbar, style = label.style_none, textcolor = color.red, size = size.normal)
    strategy.close("SELL", "Sell Exit", alert_message = "Sell Exit TP @" +str.tostring(close) + " OR TP: " + str.tostring(lastSell*in_sellTP))
    if(not in_useAlerts)
        alert("Sell Exit")


   
alertcondition(buy and in_useAlerts,"Buy Alert","test")

Published by ChaoZhang on the FMZ strategy square · last modified 2024-01-31. Collected in the Quant Trading Vault. Unvalidated research: re-test with your own data and costs before trusting it.

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