This trading strategy combines the Relative Strength Index (RSI) and Stochastic Relative Strength Index (Stochastic RSI) technical indicators to generate trading signals. Additionally, it utilizes the price trend of cryptocurrencies in higher timeframes to confirm the trend and increase signal reliability.
Multi Timeframe RSI-SRSI Trading Strategy
The strategy judges overbought and oversold conditions based on RSI values. RSI below 30 is considered oversold signal and RSI above 70 is considered overbought signal. The Stochastic RSI indicator observes the fluctuation of RSI values. Stochastic RSI below 5 is oversold and Stochastic RSI above 50 is overbought.
The strategy also incorporates the price trend of cryptocurrency in higher timeframes (e.g. weekly). Only when higher timeframe RSI is above a threshold (e.g. 45), long signals are triggered. This filters out non-persistent oversold signals when the overall trend is down.
The buy and sell signals need to be confirmed for a number of periods (e.g. 8 bars) before an actual trading signal is generated to avoid fake signals.
The strategy mainly relies on the two classic technical indicators, RSI and Stochastic RSI, to generate trading signals. Additionally, the introduction of trend confirmation from higher timeframes helps filter fake signals effectively and improves signal quality. Further performance improvement can be achieved by optimizing parameters, adding stop loss and other means. The logic is simple and easy to understand. It serves a good starting point for quant trading.
/*backtest start: 2023-02-11 00:00:00 end: 2024-02-17 00:00:00 period: 1d basePeriod: 1h exchanges: [{"eid":"Futures_Binance","currency":"BTC_USDT"}] */ //@version=5 strategy("RSI and Stochatic Strategy", overlay=true, use_bar_magnifier = false) /////// Inputs /////////////// // RSI and SRSI rsiLength = input(14, title="RSI Length") stochLength = input(14, title="Stochastic Length") kSmooth = input(3, title="K Smooth") dSmooth = input(3, title="D Smooth") //////// thresholds /////////////// st_low = input(5, title="Low SRSI") // stochastic RSI low -- prepare to sell st_hi = input(50, title="High SRSI") // stochastic RSI high -- prepare to buy diff = input(5, title="difference") // minimum change in RSI // inval_diff = input(12, title="difference") // invalidation difference: change in the oposite direction that invalidates rsi falling/rising rsi_low = input(30, title="Low RSI") // RSI considered low rsi_hi = input(60, title="High RSI") // RSI considered high rsi_ht_hi = input(45, title="High higher time frame RSI") // RSI in higher time frame considered high /// buy trigger duration tr_dur = input(8, title="Trigger duration") low_dur = input(20, title="Monitoring last low") ///////////////// Higher time frame trend /////////////////// // higher time frame resolution res2 = input.timeframe("W", title="Higher time-frame") // Input for the ticker symbol, default is an empty string // For instance we could monitor BTC higher time frame trend symbol = input("BTC_USDT:swap", "Input Ticker (leave empty for current)") // Determine the symbol to use inputSymbol = symbol == "" ? syminfo.tickerid : symbol ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Calculate RSI // rsi = ta.rsi(close, rsiLength) // Calculate Stochastic RSI // rsiLowest = ta.lowest(rsi, stochLength) rsiHighest = ta.highest(rsi, stochLength) stochRsi = 100 * (rsi - rsiLowest) / (rsiHighest - rsiLowest) // Apply smoothing K = ta.sma(stochRsi, kSmooth) D = ta.sma(K, dSmooth) // Higher time Frame RSI cl2 = request.security(inputSymbol, res2, close) rsi2 = ta.rsi(cl2, 14) // SRSI BUY/SELL signals sell_stoch = (ta.lowest(K, tr_dur) < st_low) or (ta.highest(rsi, tr_dur) < rsi_low) buy_stoch = ((ta.lowest(K, tr_dur) > st_hi) or (ta.lowest(rsi, tr_dur) > rsi_hi)) and (rsi2 > rsi_ht_hi) // valitation / invalidation sell signal ll = ta.barssince(not sell_stoch)+1 sell_validation = (ta.highest(rsi, ll)>rsi[ll]+diff and rsi < rsi[ll]) or (rsi < rsi[ll]-diff) // valitation / invalidation buy signal llb = ta.barssince(not buy_stoch)+1 buy_validation = (ta.lowest(rsi, llb)<rsi[llb]-diff and rsi > rsi[llb]) or (rsi > rsi_hi and rsi - rsi[tr_dur] > 0) sell_signal = sell_stoch and sell_validation buy_signal = buy_stoch and buy_validation // Define the start date for the strategy startYear = input(2019, "Start Year") startMonth = input(1, "Start Month") startDay = input(1, "Start Day") // Convert the start date to Unix time startTime = timestamp(startYear, startMonth, startDay, 00, 00) // Define the end date for the strategy endYear = input(2030, "End Year") endMonth = input(1, "End Month") endDay = input(1, "End Day") // Convert the end date to Unix time endTime = timestamp(endYear, endMonth, endDay, 00, 00) if true if buy_signal strategy.entry("buy", strategy.long, comment = "Buy") if sell_signal strategy.close("buy", "Sell")