Hello traders,
I hereby present to you the second stage of my journey to finding a reliable, profitable trading strategy. The “Millemachine” is based on the “Millebot”, my previous published strategy. This means the backbone of the strategy is still the same: a trend following system. Instead of using a fixed TP and SL, a trailing stoploss is now used. To limit the losses when the trend weakens, the trailing stoploss automatically gets smaller, as it is based on the ATR. A new utility is you can now easily switch between indicators on which the decision making is based. This allows the user to discover which indicators work best for entry, long/short switching and stoploss configuration.
The strategy has been proven to be very profitable in trending markets, but can suffer losses during ranging market. To make the system more robust, the strategy cannot solely rely on a trending system. Other systems must be added. I believe that a good trading bot must consist of more than 4 different strategies, based on different systems. This is what I am currently working on.
My goal for publishing this strategy is to help other traders build their own. In my journey I found it difficult to find a good strategy that employs a decent risk management, which is truly essential for having good, consistent results. Also, a realistic commission needs to be defined to have a realistic performance prediction. This weighs on the profitability and therefore is often set at 0 by authors of other strategies, which I find misleading.
If you have found this strategy informative or useful, please leave a comment.
Greetings Michael
backtest
// © Milleman //@version=4 //strategy("MilleMachine", overlay=true, default_qty_type = strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value = 100, initial_capital=10000, commission_type=strategy.commission.percent, commission_value=0.06) // Additional settings Mode = input(title="Mode", defval="LongShort", options=["LongShort", "OnlyLong", "OnlyShort","Indicator Mode"]) UseTP = false //input(false, title="Use Take Profit?") QuickSwitch = true //input(true, title="Quickswitch") UseTC = true //input(true, title="Use Trendchange?") // Risk management settings //Spacer2 = input(false, title="======= Risk management settings =======") Risk = input(1.0, title="% Risk",minval=0)/100 RRR = 2 //input(2,title="Risk Reward Ratio",step=0.1,minval=0,maxval=20) SL_Mode = false // input(true, title="ON = Fixed SL / OFF = Dynamic SL (ATR)") SL_Fix = 3 //input(3,title="StopLoss %",step=0.25, minval=0)/100 ATR = atr(14) //input(14,title="Periode ATR")) Mul = input(2,title="ATR Multiplier",step=0.1) xATR = ATR * Mul SL = SL_Mode ? SL_Fix : (1 - close/(close+xATR)) // INDICATORS ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Ind(type, src, len) => float result = 0 if type=="McGinley" result := na(result[1]) ? ema(src, len) : result[1] + (src - result[1]) / (len * pow(src/result[1], 4)) if type=="HMA" result := wma(2*wma(src, len/2)-wma(src, len), round(sqrt(len))) if type=="EHMA" result := ema(2*ema(src, len/2)-ema(src, len), round(sqrt(len))) if type=="THMA" lend = len/2 result := wma(wma(src, lend/3)*3-wma(src, lend/2)-wma(src,lend), lend) if type=="SMA" // Simple result := sma(src, len) if type=="EMA" // Exponential result := ema(src, len) if type=="DEMA" // Double Exponential e = ema(src, len) result := 2 * e - ema(e, len) if type=="TEMA" // Triple Exponential e = ema(src, len) result := 3 * (e - ema(e, len)) + ema(ema(e, len), len) if type=="WMA" // Weighted result := wma(src, len) if type=="VWMA" // Volume Weighted result := vwma(src, len) if type=="SMMA" // Smoothed w = wma(src, len) result := (w[1] * (len - 1) + src) / len if type == "RMA" result := rma(src, len) if type=="LSMA" // Least Squares result := linreg(src, len, 0) if type=="ALMA" // Arnaud Legoux result := alma(src, len, 0.85, 6) if type=="Kijun" //Kijun-sen kijun = avg(lowest(len), highest(len)) result :=kijun if type=="WWSA" // Welles Wilder Smoothed Moving Average result := nz(result[1]) + (close -nz(result[1]))/len result // Baseline : Switch from Long to Short and vice versa BL_Act = input(true, title="====== Activate Baseline - Switch L/S ======") BL_type = input(title="Baseline Type", defval="McGinley", options=["McGinley","HMA","EHMA","THMA","SMA","EMA","DEMA","TEMA","WMA","VWMA","SMMA","RMA","LSMA","ALMA","Kijun","WWSA"]) BL_src = input(close, title="BL source") BL_len = input(50, title="BL length", minval=1) BL = Ind(BL_type,BL_src, BL_len) // Confirmation indicator C1_Act = input(false, title="===== Activate Confirmation indicator =====") C1_type = input(title="C1 Entry indicator", defval="SMA", options=["McGinley","HMA","EHMA","THMA","SMA","EMA","DEMA","TEMA","WMA","VWMA","SMMA","RMA","LSMA","ALMA","Kijun","WWSA"]) C1_src = input(close, title="Source") C1_len = input(5,title="Length", minval=1) C1 = Ind(C1_type,C1_src,C1_len) // Entry indicator : Hull Moving Average Spacer5 = input(true, title="====== ENTRY indicator =======") EI_type = input(title="EI Entry indicator", defval="HMA", options=["McGinley","HMA","EHMA","THMA","SMA","EMA","DEMA","TEMA","WMA","VWMA","SMMA","RMA","LSMA","ALMA","Kijun","WWSA"]) EI_src = input(close, title="Source") EI_Len = input(46,title="Length", minval=1) EI = Ind(EI_type,EI_src,EI_Len) // Trail stop settings TrailActivation = input(true, title="===== Activate Trailing Stop =====") TS_type = input(title="TS Traling Stop Type", defval="EMA", options=["McGinley","HMA","EHMA","THMA","SMA","EMA","DEMA","TEMA","WMA","VWMA","SMMA","RMA","LSMA","ALMA","Kijun","WWSA"]) TrailSLScaling = 1 //input(100, title="SL Scaling", minval=0, step=5)/100 TrailingSourceLong = Ind(TS_type,low,input(5,"Smoothing Trail Long EMA", minval=1)) TrailingSourceShort = Ind(TS_type,high,input(2,"Smoothing Trail Short EMA", minval=1)) //VARIABLES MANAGEMENT TriggerPrice = 0.0, TriggerPrice := TriggerPrice[1] TriggerSL = 0.0, TriggerSL := TriggerSL[1] SLPrice = 0.0, SLPrice := SLPrice[1], TPPrice = 0.0, TPPrice := TPPrice[1] isLong = false, isLong := isLong[1], isShort = false, isShort := isShort[1] //LOGIC GoLong = crossover(EI,EI[1]) and (strategy.position_size == 0.0 and QuickSwitch) and (not BL_Act or BL/BL[1] > 1) and (not C1_Act or C1>C1[1]) and (Mode == "LongShort" or Mode == "OnlyLong") GoShort = crossunder(EI,EI[1]) and (strategy.position_size == 0.0 and QuickSwitch) and (not BL_Act or BL/BL[1] < 1) and (not C1_Act or C1<C1[1]) and (Mode == "LongShort" or Mode == "OnlyShort") ExitLong = isLong and crossunder(EI,EI[1]) and UseTC ExitShort = isShort and crossover(EI,EI[1]) and UseTC //FRAMEWORK //Reset Long-Short memory if isLong and strategy.position_size == 0.0 isLong := false if isShort and strategy.position_size == 0.0 isShort := false //Long if GoLong isLong := true, TriggerPrice := close, TriggerSL := SL TPPrice := UseTP? TriggerPrice * (1 + (TriggerSL * RRR)) : na SLPrice := TriggerPrice * (1-TriggerSL) Entry_Contracts = strategy.equity * Risk / ((TriggerPrice-SLPrice)/TriggerPrice) / TriggerPrice strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long, comment=str.tostring(math.round((TriggerSL/TriggerPrice)*1000)), qty=Entry_Contracts) strategy.exit("TPSL","Long", limit=TPPrice, stop=SLPrice) if isLong NewValSL = TrailingSourceLong * (1 - (SL*TrailSLScaling)) if TrailActivation and NewValSL > SLPrice SLPrice := NewValSL strategy.exit("TPSL","Long", limit=TPPrice, stop=SLPrice) if ExitLong strategy.close_all(comment="TrendChange") isLong := false //Short if GoShort isShort := true, TriggerPrice := close, TriggerSL := SL TPPrice := UseTP? TriggerPrice * (1 - (TriggerSL * RRR)) : na SLPrice := TriggerPrice * (1 + TriggerSL) Entry_Contracts = strategy.equity * Risk / ((SLPrice-TriggerPrice)/TriggerPrice) / TriggerPrice strategy.entry("Short", strategy.short, comment=str.tostring(math.round((TriggerSL/TriggerPrice)*1000)), qty=Entry_Contracts) strategy.exit("TPSL","Short", limit=TPPrice, stop=SLPrice) if isShort NewValSL = TrailingSourceShort * (1 + (SL*TrailSLScaling)) if TrailActivation and NewValSL < SLPrice SLPrice := NewValSL strategy.exit("TPSL","Short", limit=TPPrice, stop=SLPrice) if ExitShort strategy.close_all(comment="TrendChange") isShort := false //VISUALISATION plot(BL_Act?BL:na, color=color.blue,title="Baseline") plot(C1_Act?C1:na, color=color.yellow,title="confirmation Indicator") EIColor = EI>EI[1] ? color.green : color.red Fill_EI = plot(EI, color=EIColor, linewidth=1, transp=40, title="Entry Indicator EI") Fill_EID = plot(EI[1], color=EIColor, linewidth=1, transp=40, title="Entry Indicator EID") plot(strategy.position_size != 0.0 and (isLong or isShort) ? TriggerPrice : na, title="TriggerPrice", color=color.yellow, style=plot.style_linebr) plot(strategy.position_size != 0.0 and (isLong or isShort) ? TPPrice : na, title="TakeProfit", color=color.green, style=plot.style_linebr) plot(strategy.position_size != 0.0 and (isLong or isShort) ? SLPrice : na, title="StopLoss", color=color.red, style=plot.style_linebr)