The Quant Trend Following Strategy is a trend tracking strategy based on EMA lines and ATR stop loss. It uses EMA lines to judge the overall market trend direction, and dynamically tracks stop loss with ATR to lock in trend profits, maximizing returns.
The strategy consists of the following main parts:
EMA lines to determine primary trend
Use 13-day, 50-day and 100-day lines to form bullish/bearish bias and judge primary trend direction.
ATR dynamic stop loss
Use ATR indicator to calculate price movement range of current period and set stop loss price to lock in profits.
Signal smoothing
Smooth closing prices over a certain period with SMA to avoid false signals.
Bullish/bearish signals
Go long when price crosses over EMA lines, go short when crosses below. Set dynamic ATR trailing stop loss.
The strategy has the following advantages:
There are also some risks:
These risks can be reduced via parameter optimization, adaptability testing etc.
The strategy can be optimized in the following aspects:
In summary, this is a quant strategy designed based on trend following concept. It determines trend direction with EMA and uses dynamic ATR stop loss. It can effectively control drawdown while capturing trend profits. Continued optimization and iteration can generate improved results.
/*backtest start: 2023-12-27 00:00:00 end: 2024-01-03 00:00:00 period: 10m basePeriod: 1m exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ //@version=4 strategy("Combined Strategy", overlay=true) // Input variables for EMA Crossover ema13_length = input(13, title="EMA 13 Length") ema50_length = input(50, title="EMA 50 Length") ema100_length = input(100, title="EMA 100 Length") ema200_length = input(200, title="EMA 200 Length") // Calculate EMAs for EMA Crossover ema13 = ema(close, ema13_length) ema50 = ema(close, ema50_length) ema100 = ema(close, ema100_length) ema200 = ema(close, ema200_length) // Plot EMAs for EMA Crossover plot(ema13, color=color.blue, title="EMA 13") plot(ema50, color=color.orange, title="EMA 50") plot(ema100, color=color.green, title="EMA 100") plot(ema200, color=color.red, title="EMA 200") // Input variables for LinReg Candles signal_length = input(title="Signal Smoothing", type=input.integer, minval=1, maxval=200, defval=11) sma_signal = input(title="Simple MA (Signal Line)", type=input.bool, defval=true) lin_reg = input(title="Lin Reg", type=input.bool, defval=true) linreg_length = input(title="Linear Regression Length", type=input.integer, minval=1, maxval=200, defval=11) // Calculate LinReg Candles bopen = lin_reg ? linreg(open, linreg_length, 0) : open bhigh = lin_reg ? linreg(high, linreg_length, 0) : high blow = lin_reg ? linreg(low, linreg_length, 0) : low bclose = lin_reg ? linreg(close, linreg_length, 0) : close r = bopen < bclose signal = sma_signal ? sma(bclose, signal_length) : ema(bclose, signal_length) plotcandle(r ? bopen : na, r ? bhigh : na, r ? blow: na, r ? bclose : na, title="LinReg Candles", color=color.green, wickcolor=color.green, bordercolor=color.green, editable=true) plotcandle(r ? na : bopen, r ? na : bhigh, r ? na : blow, r ? na : bclose, title="LinReg Candles", color=color.red, wickcolor=color.red, bordercolor=color.red, editable=true) plot(signal, color=color.white) // Input variables for UT Bot Alerts a = input(1, title="Key Value. 'This changes the sensitivity'") c = input(10, title="ATR Period") h = input(false, title="Signals from Heikin Ashi Candles") // Calculate UT Bot Alerts xATR = atr(c) nLoss = a * xATR src = h ? security(heikinashi(syminfo.tickerid), timeframe.period, close, lookahead=false) : close xATRTrailingStop = 0.0 xATRTrailingStop := iff(src > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and src[1] > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), max(nz(xATRTrailingStop[1]), src - nLoss), iff(src < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and src[1] < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), min(nz(xATRTrailingStop[1]), src + nLoss), iff(src > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), src - nLoss, src + nLoss))) pos = 0 pos := iff(src[1] < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and src > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), 1, iff(src[1] > nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0) and src < nz(xATRTrailingStop[1], 0), -1, nz(pos[1], 0))) xcolor = pos == -1 ? color.red: pos == 1 ? color.green : color.blue ema = ema(src,1) above = crossover(ema, xATRTrailingStop) below = crossover(xATRTrailingStop, ema) buy = src > xATRTrailingStop and above sell = src < xATRTrailingStop and below barbuy = src > xATRTrailingStop barsell = src < xATRTrailingStop strategy.entry("Buy", strategy.long, when=buy) strategy.close("Buy", when=sell) strategy.entry("Sell", strategy.short, when=sell) strategy.close("Sell", when=buy) plotshape(buy, title="Buy", text='Buy', style=shape.labelup, location=location.belowbar, color=color.green, textcolor=color.white, transp=0, size=size.tiny) plotshape(sell, title="Sell", text='Sell', style=shape.labeldown, location=location.abovebar, color=color.red, textcolor=color.white, transp=0, size=size.tiny) barcolor(barbuy ? color.green : na) barcolor(barsell ? color.red : na) alertcondition(buy, "UT Long", "UT Long") alertcondition(sell, "UT Short", "UT Short")