This strategy utilizes dynamic multiple EMAs as entry signals combined with trailing stop loss and profit target mechanisms for risk management. It takes advantage of the smoothing nature of EMAs to identify trends and control cost via multi-DCA entries. In addition, the integration of adaptive stop loss and profit taking features enhances the automation process.
Triggers long entry when price crosses or moves inside a range of selected EMA periods. Typical EMAs include 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200 periods. This strategy uses 1% range of EMA as the entry criteria.
Incorporates multiple risk control mechanisms:
Set profit target price levels for exits
The strategy encompasses EMA trend detection, multi-DCA cost averaging, trailing stop loss, target profit taking and more. There remains ample potential in tuning parameters and enhancing risk controls. Overall, this highly adaptive and versatile strategy offers investors stable alpha generation capabilities.
/*backtest start: 2023-01-12 00:00:00 end: 2024-01-18 00:00:00 period: 1d basePeriod: 1h exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ //@version=4 strategy("EMA DCA Strategy with Trailing Stop and Profit Target", overlay=true ) // Define the investment amount for when the condition is met investment_per_condition = 6 // Define the EMAs ema5 = ema(close, 5) ema10 = ema(close, 10) ema20 = ema(close, 20) ema50 = ema(close, 50) ema100 = ema(close, 100) ema200 = ema(close, 200) // Define ATR sell threshold atr_sell_threshold = input(title="ATR Sell Threshold", type=input.integer, defval=10, minval=1) // Helper function to find if the price is within 1% of the EMA isWithin1Percent(price, ema) => ema_min = ema * 0.99 ema_max = ema * 1.01 price >= ema_min and price <= ema_max // Control the number of buys var int buy_count = 0 buy_limit = input(title="Buy Limit", type=input.integer, defval=3000) // Calculate trailing stop and profit target levels trail_percent = input(title="Trailing Stop Percentage", type=input.integer, defval=1, minval=0, maxval=10) profit_target_percent = input(title="Profit Target Percentage", type=input.integer, defval=3, minval=1, maxval=10) // Determine if the conditions are met and execute the strategy checkConditionAndBuy(emaValue, emaName) => var int local_buy_count = 0 // Create a local mutable variable if isWithin1Percent(close, emaValue) and local_buy_count < buy_limit strategy.entry("Buy at " + emaName, strategy.long, qty=investment_per_condition / close, alert_message ="Buy condition met for " + emaName) local_buy_count := local_buy_count + 1 // alert("Buy Condition", "Buy condition met for ", freq_once_per_bar_close) local_buy_count // Return the updated local_buy_count // Add ATR sell condition atr_condition = atr(20) > atr_sell_threshold if atr_condition strategy.close_all() buy_count := 0 // Reset the global buy_count when selling // Strategy execution buy_count := checkConditionAndBuy(ema5, "EMA5") buy_count := checkConditionAndBuy(ema10, "EMA10") buy_count := checkConditionAndBuy(ema20, "EMA20") buy_count := checkConditionAndBuy(ema50, "EMA50") buy_count := checkConditionAndBuy(ema100, "EMA100") buy_count := checkConditionAndBuy(ema200, "EMA200") // Calculate trailing stop level trail_offset = close * trail_percent / 100 trail_level = close - trail_offset // Set profit target level profit_target_level = close * (1 + profit_target_percent / 100) // Exit strategy: Trailing Stop and Profit Target strategy.exit("TrailingStop", from_entry="Buy at EMA", trail_offset=trail_offset, trail_price=trail_level) strategy.exit("ProfitTarget", from_entry="Buy at EMA", when=close >= profit_target_level) // Plot EMAs plot(ema5, title="EMA 5", color=color.red) plot(ema10, title="EMA 10", color=color.orange) plot(ema20, title="EMA 20", color=color.yellow) plot(ema50, title="EMA 50", color=color.green) plot(ema100, title="EMA 100", color=color.blue) plot(ema200, title="EMA 200", color=color.purple)