Heikin Ashi Wick Strategy

🔥 Heikin Ashi Wick Momentum Strategy
“Trade momentum decay before the trend breaks.

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What Makes This Different (Traffic Driver)
✔ Uses Heikin Ashi wicks (almost nobody does this correctly)
✔ Captures trend continuation, not breakouts
✔ Exits before momentum collapse, not after
✔ Non-repainting
✔ Clean charts, instant readability


This Strategy Is REALLY Trading
This is a Heikin Ashi momentum-decay system:
• Enters when trend is strong but not euphoric
• Exits when:
o Trend stops probing higher
o Sellers gain relative strength
It avoids:
• Chasing strong breakout candles
• Holding through momentum rollovers

Candle Type Used: Heikin Ashi (manually calculated)
NOTE: The script does not use regular candles.
It reconstructs Heikin Ashi (HA) candles from raw OHLC:
• HA Close = average of open, high, low, close
• HA Open = midpoint of prior HA candle (smoothed)
• HA High / Low = extremes of HA open/close vs real high/low
➡️ This filters noise and emphasizes trend structure and momentum.

Strengths
✅ Works well in strong, smooth trends
✅ Very clean logic (no indicators)
✅ Non-repainting
✅ Early exits protect capital

Best Use
This works best on:
• Daily timeframe
• Strong trend ETFs / megacaps
o QQQ
o SPY
o NVDA, MSFT, AAPL
• When combined with:
o EMA 21 trend filter (your preference)
o Market regime filter (e.g., above 50/200 SMA)
o Rising 10 EMA and 20 EMA

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8️⃣ Weaknesses (Important)
⚠️ No stop loss (only structure-based exits)
⚠️ Can exit too early in explosive trends
⚠️ Will chop in sideways markets
⚠️ No volatility filter (ATR, EMA, regime)

How to Avoid the Weaknesses — Summary
Turn the setup from a concept into a robust strategy by adding these controls:
1. Trade Only Trends
o Require price above EMA-21 (optionally EMA-21 > EMA-50)
o Eliminates chop and sideways markets
2. Improve Exits (Avoid Leaving Winners Too Early)
o Partial exit when upper wick disappears
o Full exit only when lower wick dominates
o Optional: require 2 consecutive exit candles
3. Add Risk Protection
o Use a volatility stop: ~1.5× ATR(14) below entry or below HA swing low
o Protects against gaps and sudden reversals
4. Filter Weak Signals
o Require meaningful wick size (≈30–40% of candle range)
o Avoids low-quality indecision candles
5. Avoid Bad Volatility
o Skip entries when ATR is expanding aggressively
o Focus on calmer, controllable trends
6. Limit Time in Trade
o Add a max bars hold (e.g., 10–15 bars on daily)
o Prevents capital getting stuck in fading trends

⚠️ Educational use only. Not financial advice. Trading involves risk and losses can exceed expectations. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Use at your own risk.