This strategy designs a simple trend following trading system based on the RSI indicator, which can determine the market trend direction through RSI and implement automated long and short positions within a specific date range.
The strategy uses RSI indicator to determine market trend, and Bollinger Bands to confirm overbought and oversold zones.
Firstly, RSI value is calculated. The upper and lower bands of Bollinger Bands are calculated based on moving average and standard deviation of RSI. RSI fluctuates between 0-1, and Bollinger Bands identifies overbought and oversold zones through standard deviation. When RSI is higher than the upper band, it’s overbought zone, and when lower than the lower band, it’s oversold zone.
When RSI breaks through from the lower to the upper band, a buy signal is generated. When RSI breaks through from the upper to the lower band, a sell signal is generated, to follow the trend. After entering the market, no stop loss or take profit is set until positions are closed at the end of the specified date range.
The strategy simply and effectively uses RSI to determine trend direction, and Bollinger Bands to identify specific trading opportunities. By defining the date range, unnecessary risks can be avoided.
Optimization Directions:
In summary, this is a very simple and direct trend following strategy. Using RSI to determine trend, Bollinger Bands to filter signals, and defining trading date range, can effectively follow trends and control risks. But the strategy can be further optimized. While keeping it simple and effective, methods like stop loss, parameter optimization and signal filtering can be added to make it more suitable for live trading.
/*backtest start: 2022-10-19 00:00:00 end: 2023-10-25 00:00:00 period: 1d basePeriod: 1h exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ //Gidra //2018 //@version=2 strategy(title = "Gidra's RSI or MFI Strategy v0.1", shorttitle = "Gidra's RSI or MFI v0.1", overlay = false, default_qty_type = strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value = 100, pyramiding = 1) //Settings needlong = input(true, defval = true, title = "Long") needshort = input(true, defval = true, title = "Short") capital = input(100, defval = 100, minval = 1, maxval = 10000, title = "Lot, %") src = input(close, title="source") lengthRSI = input(14, title="RSI or MFI length") // RSI %B useRSI = input(true, title="use RSI or MFI") fromyear = input(2018, defval = 2018, minval = 1900, maxval = 2100, title = "From Year") toyear = input(2100, defval = 2100, minval = 1900, maxval = 2100, title = "To Year") frommonth = input(01, defval = 01, minval = 01, maxval = 12, title = "From Month") tomonth = input(12, defval = 12, minval = 01, maxval = 12, title = "To Month") fromday = input(01, defval = 01, minval = 01, maxval = 31, title = "From Day") today = input(31, defval = 31, minval = 01, maxval = 31, title = "To Day") //MFI upper = sum(volume * (change(src) <= 0 ? 0 : src), lengthRSI) lower = sum(volume * (change(src) >= 0 ? 0 : src), lengthRSI) mf = rsi(upper, lower) //RSI rsi = useRSI?rsi(src, lengthRSI): mf // %B length = input(50, minval=1, title="BB length") mult = input(1.618, minval=0.001, maxval=50) basis = sma(rsi, length) dev = mult * stdev(rsi, length) upperr = basis + dev lowerr = basis - dev bbr = (rsi - lowerr)/(upperr - lowerr) plot(bbr, color=black, transp=0, linewidth=2) // band1 = hline(1, color=white, linestyle=dashed) // band0 = hline(0, color=white, linestyle=dashed) // fill(band1, band0, color=teal) hline(0.5, color=white) //Signals up = bbr >= 0 and bbr[1] < 0 dn = bbr <= 1 and bbr[1] > 1 //exit = ((bbr[1] < 0.5 and bbr >= 0.5) or (bbr[1] > 0.5 and bbr <= 0.5)) lot = strategy.position_size == 0 ? strategy.equity / close * capital / 100 : lot[1] //Trading if up strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long, needlong == false ? 0 : lot, when=(time > timestamp(fromyear, frommonth, fromday, 00, 00) and time < timestamp(toyear, tomonth, today, 23, 59))) if dn strategy.entry("Short", strategy.short, needshort == false ? 0 : lot, when=(time > timestamp(fromyear, frommonth, fromday, 00, 00) and time < timestamp(toyear, tomonth, today, 23, 59))) if time > timestamp(toyear, tomonth, today, 23, 59)// or exit strategy.close_all()