The PPO Price Sensitivity Momentum Double Bottom Directional Trading Strategy is a trend following trading strategy that utilizes the identification of price double bottom formations by the PPO (Percentage Price Oscillator) indicator to generate trade signals. It combines PPO’s double bottom pattern recognition and price momentum characteristics to achieve precise positioning of price double bottom reversal points.
The strategy employs PPO indicator to determine price double bottom features, while incorporating price minimum point judgement to monitor PPO indicator’s bottoming formation in real time. When PPO forms an upward reversal double bottom, it signals a current buying opportunity.
On the other hand, the strategy collaborates with price minimum value determination to ascertain if price resides at relatively low levels. If price stays low while PPO exhibits bottoming pattern, a buy signal is triggered.
Through PPO reversal characteristic validation and price level confirmation dual mechanism, potential price reversal chances can be identified effectively, filtering out false signals and improving signal quality.
PPO double bottom pattern enables accurate timing at entry points.
Combining price level confirmation filters out false signals occurring at relatively high levels, improving signal quality.
PPO is sensitive and swiftly captures price trend changes, suitable for trend tracking.
Dual confirmation mechanism effectively mitigates trading risk.
PPO tends to produce false signals, requiring confirmation from other indicators. Moving average or volatility indicators can assist confirmation.
Double bottom reversal may not sustain, facing risks of further decline. Stop loss can be set along with position sizing optimization.
Inappropriate parameter configuration leads to missed profit or wrong entries. Repeated backtests and optimization on parameter combination is necessary.
There is substantial code volume with replications. Further modularization helps reduce duplicated codes.
Incorporate stop loss module and optimize position sizing strategies.
Introduce moving average or volatility indicators as confirmation tools.
Modularize codes to avoid redundant logic judgements.
Continue parameter tuning to enhance stability.
Test spread trading applications across more products.
The PPO Price Sensitivity Momentum Double Bottom Directional Trading Strategy captures PPO indicator’s double bottom features coupled with dual confirmation of price level positioning to effectively spot price reversal points. Compared to single indicator judgement, it possesses advantages of improved accuracy and capability to filter out noises. Nonetheless, certain risks of false signals remain, requiring further optimization on indicator combinations and strict position sizing tactics before stable profitability can be achieved in live trading.
/*backtest start: 2024-01-27 00:00:00 end: 2024-01-28 00:00:00 period: 2h basePeriod: 15m 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/ // © luciancapdefier //@version=4 strategy("PPO Divergence ST", overlay=true, initial_capital=30000, calc_on_order_fills=true, default_qty_type=strategy.percent_of_equity, default_qty_value=100) // time FromYear = input(2019, "Backtest Start Year") FromMonth = input(1, "Backtest Start Month") FromDay = input(1, "Backtest Start Day") ToYear = input(2999, "Backtest End Year") ToMonth = input(1, "Backtest End Month") ToDay = input(1, "Backtest End Day") start = timestamp(FromYear, FromMonth, FromDay, 00, 00) // backtest start window finish = timestamp(ToYear, ToMonth, ToDay, 23, 59) // backtest finish window window() => time >= start and time <= finish ? true : false source = close topbots = input(true, title="Show PPO high/low triangles?") long_term_div = input(true, title="Use long term divergences?") div_lookback_period = input(55, minval=1, title="Lookback Period") fastLength = input(12, minval=1, title="PPO Fast") slowLength=input(26, minval=1, title="PPO Slow") signalLength=input(9,minval=1, title="PPO Signal") smoother = input(2,minval=1, title="PPO Smooth") fastMA = ema(source, fastLength) slowMA = ema(source, slowLength) macd = fastMA - slowMA macd2=(macd/slowMA)*100 d = sma(macd2, smoother) // smoothing PPO bullishPrice = low priceMins = bullishPrice > bullishPrice[1] and bullishPrice[1] < bullishPrice[2] or low[1] == low[2] and low[1] < low and low[1] < low[3] or low[1] == low[2] and low[1] == low[3] and low[1] < low and low[1] < low[4] or low[1] == low[2] and low[1] == low[3] and low[1] and low[1] == low[4] and low[1] < low and low[1] < low[5] // this line identifies bottoms and plateaus in the price oscMins= d > d[1] and d[1] < d[2] // this line identifies bottoms in the PPO BottomPointsInPPO = oscMins bearishPrice = high priceMax = bearishPrice < bearishPrice[1] and bearishPrice[1] > bearishPrice[2] or high[1] == high[2] and high[1] > high and high[1] > high[3] or high[1] == high[2] and high[1] == high[3] and high[1] > high and high[1] > high[4] or high[1] == high[2] and high[1] == high[3] and high[1] and high[1] == high[4] and high[1] > high and high[1] > high[5] // this line identifies tops in the price oscMax = d < d[1] and d[1] > d[2] // this line identifies tops in the PPO TopPointsInPPO = oscMax currenttrough4=valuewhen (oscMins, d[1], 0) // identifies the value of PPO at the most recent BOTTOM in the PPO lasttrough4=valuewhen (oscMins, d[1], 1) // NOT USED identifies the value of PPO at the second most recent BOTTOM in the PPO currenttrough5=valuewhen (oscMax, d[1], 0) // identifies the value of PPO at the most recent TOP in the PPO lasttrough5=valuewhen (oscMax, d[1], 1) // NOT USED identifies the value of PPO at the second most recent TOP in the PPO currenttrough6=valuewhen (priceMins, low[1], 0) // this line identifies the low (price) at the most recent bottom in the Price lasttrough6=valuewhen (priceMins, low[1], 1) // NOT USED this line identifies the low (price) at the second most recent bottom in the Price currenttrough7=valuewhen (priceMax, high[1], 0) // this line identifies the high (price) at the most recent top in the Price lasttrough7=valuewhen (priceMax, high[1], 1) // NOT USED this line identifies the high (price) at the second most recent top in the Price delayedlow = priceMins and barssince(oscMins) < 3 ? low[1] : na delayedhigh = priceMax and barssince(oscMax) < 3 ? high[1] : na // only take tops/bottoms in price when tops/bottoms are less than 5 bars away filter = barssince(priceMins) < 5 ? lowest(currenttrough6, 4) : na filter2 = barssince(priceMax) < 5 ? highest(currenttrough7, 4) : na //delayedbottom/top when oscillator bottom/top is earlier than price bottom/top y11 = valuewhen(oscMins, delayedlow, 0) y12 = valuewhen(oscMax, delayedhigh, 0) // only take tops/bottoms in price when tops/bottoms are less than 5 bars away, since 2nd most recent top/bottom in osc y2=valuewhen(oscMax, filter2, 1) // identifies the highest high in the tops of price with 5 bar lookback period SINCE the SECOND most recent top in PPO y6=valuewhen(oscMins, filter, 1) // identifies the lowest low in the bottoms of price with 5 bar lookback period SINCE the SECOND most recent bottom in PPO long_term_bull_filt = valuewhen(priceMins, lowest(div_lookback_period), 1) long_term_bear_filt = valuewhen(priceMax, highest(div_lookback_period), 1) y3=valuewhen(oscMax, currenttrough5, 0) // identifies the value of PPO in the most recent top of PPO y4=valuewhen(oscMax, currenttrough5, 1) // identifies the value of PPO in the second most recent top of PPO y7=valuewhen(oscMins, currenttrough4, 0) // identifies the value of PPO in the most recent bottom of PPO y8=valuewhen(oscMins, currenttrough4, 1) // identifies the value of PPO in the SECOND most recent bottom of PPO y9=valuewhen(oscMins, currenttrough6, 0) y10=valuewhen(oscMax, currenttrough7, 0) bulldiv= BottomPointsInPPO ? d[1] : na // plots dots at bottoms in the PPO beardiv= TopPointsInPPO ? d[1]: na // plots dots at tops in the PPO i = currenttrough5 < highest(d, div_lookback_period) // long term bearish oscilator divergence i2 = y10 > long_term_bear_filt // long term bearish top divergence i3 = delayedhigh > long_term_bear_filt // long term bearish delayedhigh divergence i4 = currenttrough4 > lowest(d, div_lookback_period) // long term bullish osc divergence i5 = y9 < long_term_bull_filt // long term bullish bottom div i6 = delayedlow < long_term_bull_filt // long term bullish delayedbottom div //plot(0, color=gray) //plot(d, color=black) //plot(bulldiv, title = "Bottoms", color=maroon, style=circles, linewidth=3, offset= -1) //plot(beardiv, title = "Tops", color=green, style=circles, linewidth=3, offset= -1) bearishdiv1 = (y10 > y2 and oscMax and y3 < y4) ? true : false bearishdiv2 = (delayedhigh > y2 and y3 < y4) ? true : false bearishdiv3 = (long_term_div and oscMax and i and i2) ? true : false bearishdiv4 = (long_term_div and i and i3) ? true : false bullishdiv1 = (y9 < y6 and oscMins and y7 > y8) ? true : false bullishdiv2 = (delayedlow < y6 and y7 > y8) ? true : false bullishdiv3 = (long_term_div and oscMins and i4 and i5) ? true : false bullishdiv4 = (long_term_div and i4 and i6) ? true : false bearish = bearishdiv1 or bearishdiv2 or bearishdiv3 or bearishdiv4 bullish = bullishdiv1 or bullishdiv2 or bullishdiv3 or bullishdiv4 greendot = beardiv != 0 ? true : false reddot = bulldiv != 0 ? true : false if (reddot and window()) strategy.entry("Buy Id", strategy.long, comment="BUY") if (greendot and window()) strategy.entry("Sell Id", strategy.short, comment="SELL") alertcondition( bearish, title="Bearish Signal (Orange)", message="Orange & Bearish: Short " ) alertcondition( bullish, title="Bullish Signal (Purple)", message="Purple & Bullish: Long " ) alertcondition( greendot, title="PPO High (Green)", message="Green High Point: Short " ) alertcondition( reddot, title="PPO Low (Red)", message="Red Low Point: Long " ) // plotshape(bearish ? d : na, text='▼\nP', style=shape.labeldown, location=location.abovebar, color=color(orange,0), textcolor=color(white,0), offset=0) // plotshape(bullish ? d : na, text='P\n▲', style=shape.labelup, location=location.belowbar, color=color(#C752FF,0), textcolor=color(white,0), offset=0) plotshape(topbots and greendot ? d : na, text='', style=shape.triangledown, location=location.abovebar, color=color.red, offset=0, size=size.tiny) plotshape(topbots and reddot ? d : na, text='', style=shape.triangleup, location=location.belowbar, color=color.lime, offset=0, size=size.tiny) //barcolor(bearishdiv1 or bearishdiv2 or bearishdiv3 or bearishdiv4 ? orange : na) //barcolor(bullishdiv1 or bullishdiv2 or bullishdiv3 or bullishdiv4 ? fuchsia : na) //barcolor(#dedcdc)