This strategy is named “Trend Following Strategy Based on Pivot Point Breakout”. It identifies key support and resistance levels, and trades breakouts of these levels to follow trends.
The logic is:
Calculate the highest high and lowest low prices over a period as key support/resistance levels.
When prices break above the previous day’s high pivot, a buy signal is generated.
When prices break below the previous day’s low pivot, a sell signal is generated.
Quickly follow the trend after breakout occurs. If support is broken again, a stop loss exits.
The advantage is capitalizing on pivot breakout timing for trend trading. But indicator patterns should be watched to avoid excessive uncertain signals during ranging markets.
In summary, watching pivotal support/resistance level breakouts is a relatively simple and intuitive tracking approach. But traders still need confirmation from additional technical indicators, and parameter tuning, for the strategy to Both profit from trend entries and timely stop losses.
/*backtest
start: 2022-09-12 00:00:00
end: 2023-09-12 00:00:00
period: 3d
basePeriod: 1d
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/
// © Yo_adriiiiaan
//@version=4
strategy("Breakout Strategy", overlay = true, commission_type=strategy.commission.percent,commission_value=0, initial_capital = 1000, default_qty_type=strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value=100)
left = input(10)
right = input(10)
pivot_high = 0.000
pivot_low = 0.000
pivot_high := nz(pivothigh(high,left,right), pivot_high[1])
pivot_low := nz(pivotlow(low,left,right), pivot_low[1])
plot(pivot_high)
plot(pivot_low)
breakout_bull = close > pivot_high[1]
breakdown_bear = close < pivot_low[1]
barcolor(close > pivot_high[1]? color.green:close < pivot_low[1]? color.red:close < pivot_high[1]? color.orange:na)
strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long, when = breakout_bull)
strategy.close_all(when = breakdown_bear)
//strategy.entry("Short", strategy.short, when = breakdown_bear)