The Bear Power Tracking Strategy is designed based on Dr. Alexander Elder’s Elder Ray indicator to measure buying and selling pressure in the market. It uses a 13-day exponential moving average (EMA) to indicate the market consensus of value and uses the Bear Power indicator to measure the ability of sellers to push prices below the consensus value.
The core indicator of this strategy is Bear Power, which is calculated by subtracting the 13-day EMA from the daily low price. It reflects the ability of sellers to push prices below the average consensus of value.
When Bear Power crosses above the specified threshold, a long position is opened. When it crosses below, a short position is opened.
In addition, the long/short direction can also be switched via the “Reverse Trade” boolean parameter, which reverses the signal when set to True.
The strategy is simple and easy to implement with one indicator judging direction.
The advantages of this strategy include:
There are also some risks:
Confirmation with multiple indicators, stop loss and parameter tuning could help optimize it.
Some directions to optimize the strategy:
The Bear Power Tracking Strategy has a simple concept of judging entry and exit by comparing one indicator to a threshold. As a indicator-based strategy, there is still large room for optimization in aspects like indicators, stop loss and stock selection to make it more steady and reliable.
/*backtest start: 2023-12-01 00:00:00 end: 2023-12-31 23:59:59 period: 1d basePeriod: 1h exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ //@version = 2 //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Copyright by HPotter v1.0 07/12/2016 // Developed by Dr Alexander Elder, the Elder-ray indicator measures buying // and selling pressure in the market. The Elder-ray is often used as part // of the Triple Screen trading system but may also be used on its own. // Dr Elder uses a 13-day exponential moving average (EMA) to indicate the // market consensus of value. Bear Power measures the ability of sellers to // drive prices below the consensus of value. Bear Power reflects the ability // of sellers to drive prices below the average consensus of value. // Bull Power is calculated by subtracting the 13-day EMA from the day's High. // Bear power subtracts the 13-day EMA from the day's Low. // You can use in the xPrice any series: Open, High, Low, Close, HL2, HLC3, OHLC4 and ect... // You can change long to short in the Input Settings // Please, use it only for learning or paper trading. Do not for real trading. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// strategy(title="Elder Ray (Bear Power) Strategy Backtest") Length = input(13, minval=1) Trigger = input(0) reverse = input(false, title="Trade reverse") hline(0, color=purple, linestyle=line) xPrice = close xMA = ema(xPrice,Length) DayLow = iff(dayofmonth != dayofmonth[1], low, min(low, nz(DayLow[1]))) nRes = DayLow - xMA pos = iff(nRes > Trigger, 1, iff(nRes < Trigger, -1, nz(pos[1], 0))) possig = iff(reverse and pos == 1, -1, iff(reverse and pos == -1, 1, pos)) if (possig == 1) strategy.entry("Long", strategy.long) if (possig == -1) strategy.entry("Short", strategy.short) barcolor(possig == -1 ? red: possig == 1 ? green : blue ) plot(nRes, color=blue, title="Bear Power", style = histogram)