This strategy is named “5-day High-Low Breakout Price Channel Strategy”. It constructs a price channel using the highest high and lowest low prices over the past 5 trading days, and trades breakouts of the channel.
The steps are:
Calculate the highest high and lowest low prices over the past 5 trading days.
Take the top 2 highest high prices to build the upper rail, and the bottom 2 lowest low prices for the lower rail.
When price rises above the upper rail by a certain percentage (e.g. 0.3%), a buy signal is generated.
When price drops below the lower rail by a certain percentage, a sell signal is generated.
After entry, the second highest/lowest price is used as the stop loss, or take profit at a certain percentage (e.g. 0.5%) is tracked before exiting.
The advantage is using key high/low price breakouts to determine trend reversal points. Breaking the channel represents concentrated price-volume thrusts. But over-trading in ranging markets should be prevented.
In summary, watching key price area breakouts is a classical trend following approach. But traders still need confirmation with other indicators and parameter optimization to maximize the strategy’s utility.
/*backtest
start: 2023-08-13 00:00:00
end: 2023-09-12 00:00:00
period: 4h
basePeriod: 15m
exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}]
*/
// @version=4
// Based on Sort pseudo-array v2 by apozdnyakov https://www.tradingview.com/script/IUlIoSnA-Sort-pseudo-array-v2/
strategy(title="5 Day high/low breakout strategy", shorttitle="5 days range breakout", overlay=true)
entry_factor = input(title="Entry - % point above high/low", type=input.float, defval=0.3, minval=0, maxval=5)
profit_target = input(title="Profit Target %", type=input.float, defval=0.5, minval=0, maxval=5)
trade_type = input(defval = "BOTH", title = "Trade Type: LONG, SHORT, BOTH ( case sensitive )", type = input.string)
width = input(defval = 2, title = "High/Low line width (Enter 0 to hide )", type = input.integer, minval=0, maxval=5)
debug = input(defval= "NO", title = "Display sorted low/high: YES, NO ( case sensitive )", type = input.string)
high_day1 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", high[1], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
high_day2 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", high[2], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
high_day3 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", high[3], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
high_day4 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", high[4], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
high_day5 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", high[5], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
low_day1 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", low[1], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
low_day2 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", low[2], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
low_day3 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", low[3], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
low_day4 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", low[4], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
low_day5 = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", low[5], lookahead = barmerge.lookahead_on)
// sorts a list of up to the fixed length
sort_all(type) =>
float s0 = na
float s1 = na
float s2 = na
float s3 = na
float s4 = na
h_val = security(syminfo.tickerid, "D", high, false)
float min = na
float last = na
for i = 0 to 4
float min_local = na
float last_local = na
float val = na
for l = 0 to 4
if type == "high"
val := l == 0 ? high_day1 : val
val := l == 1 ? high_day2 : val
val := l == 2 ? high_day3 : val
val := l == 3 ? high_day4 : val
val := l == 4 ? high_day5 : val
else
val := l == 0 ? low_day1 : val
val := l == 1 ? low_day2 : val
val := l == 2 ? low_day3 : val
val := l == 3 ? low_day4 : val
val := l == 4 ? low_day5 : val
if(na(min) or val > min or (val == min and l > last))
new_min_local = na(min_local) ? val : min(min_local, na(min) ? val : max(min, val))
if(na(min_local) or new_min_local != min_local)
last_local := l
min_local := new_min_local
min := min_local
last := last_local
s0 := i == 0 ? min : s0
s1 := i == 1 ? min : s1
s2 := i == 2 ? min : s2
s3 := i == 3 ? min : s3
s4 := i == 4 ? min : s4
[s0, s1, s2, s3, s4]
[high5, high4, high3, high2, high1] = sort_all("high")
[low1, low2, low3, low4, low5] = sort_all("low")
plot(high1, color = color.blue, style=plot.style_circles, linewidth=width)
plot(high2, color = color.red, style=plot.style_circles, linewidth=width)
plot(low1, color = color.blue, style=plot.style_circles, linewidth=width)
plot(low2, color = color.red, style=plot.style_circles, linewidth=width)
if close >= (high1 * (1 + entry_factor/100)) and strategy.position_size == 0 and hour <= 12
strategy.entry(id = "long_entry", long = true, qty = 1, stop = high2)
strategy.close(id = "long_entry", when = strategy.position_size != 0 and (close < high2 or close > high1 * (1 + (entry_factor + profit_target)/100)))
if close <= (low1 * (1 - entry_factor/100)) and strategy.position_size == 0 and hour <= 12
strategy.entry(id = "short_entry", long = false, qty = 1, stop = low2)
strategy.close(id = "short_entry", when = strategy.position_size != 0 and (close > low2 or close < low1 * (1 - (entry_factor + profit_target)/100)))
if (hour == 14)
strategy.close_all()
//No more than 1 order per day
// strategy.risk.max_intraday_filled_orders(2)
//Check whether this is the first bar of the day? If yes, display highs for last 5 days
// t = time("1440", session.regular)
// is_first = na(t[1]) and not na(t) or t[1] < t
// if (is_first and debug != "NO")
// label.new(bar_index, na, tostring(high1) + ", " + tostring(high2) + ", " + tostring(high3) + ", " + tostring(high4) + ", " + tostring(high5), style=label.style_cross, yloc=yloc.abovebar)
// label.new(bar_index, na, tostring(low1) + ", " + tostring(low2) + ", " + tostring(low3) + ", " + tostring(low4) + ", " + tostring(low5), style=label.style_cross, yloc=yloc.belowbar)