Cyato Grid Basic Buy & Sell [BACKTEST]

14 apr 2020

Private indicator

This Grid bot strategy creates buy orders when the price goes down one level or more, and sell order when the price goes up one level or more.
To avoid useless trades, the lastest traded level is disabled until another level is crossed.

To create the grid, one upper level and one lower level is calculated. Those 2 levels are either given by the user using "MANUAL" mode or automatically calculated by an AI. The space between these two levels are then divided equally into several steps, creating the grid. The number of steps is chosen by the user, from 3 to 20.

HOW IT WORKS

This is the Backtest version meaning this is the one you should use with the Strategy Tester (more below).

Select either "MANUAL" or "AI" mode.
When using "MANUAL", you have to configure an upper level and a lower level.
When using "AI", the upper and lower level are automatically calculated from last 7 days high/low plus a 3% deviation. You can configure the timeframe and the deviation.


Select the grid quantity, from 3 to 20.

Example with 3:


Example with 10:


Example with 20:


You can choose between "Once Per Bar Close" or "Once Per Bar" alert type.
"Once Per Bar Close" will wait candle close to confirm a trade.
"Once Per Bar" will trigger a trade if the price crossed a step anytime inside a candle. Note that the backtest will still use bar close price in its calculation.

BACKTESTING

The strategy will buy 1 contract when a BUY signal appears and sell 1 contract when a SELL signal appears.
Here 1 contract = 1 BTC

The strategy can buy up to 20 contracts. Pyramiding is enabled.

The Backtest info panel is here to show how many trades are open in the backtest.


I know very well that a backtest has no value if several trades are left open. That is why I coded a feature to close all open trades at once on the last candle. This feature can be turned on and off.


To get this indicator, use the link in my signature below, thanks!

14 apr 2020

Note di rilascio

Core behavior fixes

22 apr 2020

Note di rilascio

AI mode updated:
The up/lower step is now calculated using high/lowest of 100 bars of higher data, plus a percent increased range.

27 apr 2020

Note di rilascio

AI strategy behavior improvements:
When the grid moves, the last traded level was reset when it should not.

28 apr 2020

Note di rilascio

NEW: STOP LOSS Feature
You can turn it on/off

Make the strategy close all orders if price breaks below step 0 which is one step below step 1

4 ott 2020

Note di rilascio

You can now choose between a LONG or a SHORT strategy

4 ott 2020

Note di rilascio

Updated info panel

5 ott 2020

Note di rilascio

New input setting to change the order size.

24 nov 2020

Note di rilascio

Added strategy alerts text inputs!

How to create Strategy Alerts:
Write your alert messages for EXIT, LONG and SHORT orders in the settings (Backtest section).
Then click add alert, and in the alert message, write the following:
{{strategy.order.alert_message}}

13 dic 2020

Note di rilascio

bugfixes:
The highest step was misbehaving sometimes.

18 dic 2020

Note di rilascio

Bugfixes with the AI mode.

5 gen 2021

Note di rilascio

Updated Backtest Period settings: we can now select hours and minutes.

21 gen 2021

Note di rilascio

Max number of grid steps increased to 30, but steps above 24th will not be printed on chart due to graphic limitations.

27 gen 2021

Note di rilascio

Configuration panel udpated: smaller and better placement.

Added new alert system!
To use it:
1. Write your alert messages in the indicator settings (alert section at the bottom)
2. CLick "Create Alert" as usual, but choose "alert() function calls only"

That's all! You will receive alerts for every event.

2 mar 2021

Note di rilascio

Max grid quantity increased to 100

Max grid quantity plotted on chart increased to 59
That means grid steps above 59th will not be plotted (due to graphic limitations)

AI mode improved. An option was added to use the old AI mode if needed.

3 mag 2021

Note di rilascio

Fixed multiple entries bug while letting the indicator run with recalculate on every tick setting on

7 mag 2021

Note di rilascio

Bugfix: deals not closing in the backtest when using "recalculate on every" tick in real time.

8 mag 2021

Note di rilascio

Updated inputs, added tooltips
Updated info panel

26 mag 2021

Note di rilascio

Order Size
Added an option to choose from "Fixed", "% of Equity", or "Contracts".

19 giu 2021

Note di rilascio

Added new Backtest Results panel!
You can disable it by going in the style tab -> tables, or by clicking the indicator setting "Backtest Results Table".

20 giu 2021

Note di rilascio

Backtest orders realtime behavior fix bug: several closing orders on the same candle

31 ott 2021

Note di rilascio

Updated backtesting behavior:
- each step is now closed with its corresponding previous step, instead of "First In, First Out".
- order size is now set in the regular backtest properties tab.

31 ott 2021

Note di rilascio

fix backtest period option

7 feb 2022

Note di rilascio

Alerts will no longer stop triggering if they are outside of the backtest period.

15 mar 2022

Note di rilascio

Fix backtest bug (multiple orders on same bar)

15 mar 2022

Note di rilascio

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15 mar 2022

Note di rilascio

Revert

15 mar 2022

Note di rilascio

Updated config panel

20 mar 2022

Note di rilascio

Added Grid step size to the backtest panel
Added Break Even line

20 mar 2022

Note di rilascio

Fix for real time backtesting

6 apr 2022

Note di rilascio

Updated default settings for easier onboarding.
The indicator is now plotting all of the max 100 grid step lines.

3 mag 2022

Note di rilascio

Added more stop loss features:
Backtest
Added optional Upper and Lower Stop Loss with price configuration and action being either "Stop Bot" or "Stop Bot and buy/sell base currency using all equity".

Alerts
Added alerts for both stop losses.

22 ago 2022

Note di rilascio

Updated alert inputs

23 ago 2022

Note di rilascio

Updated config panel
Added the option to calculate the grid from top to bottom using a percentage of price for each grid.

14 dic 2022

Note di rilascio

Added an option to prevent trades (and alerts) to trigger before the start of the backtest period input.

26 gen 2023

Note di rilascio

New input 'order type' with two options 'Market' or 'Limit'.
Up until now the indicator was using market orders in the backtest and for the alerts it would simply trigger 'buy' or 'sell' when a step is crossed.

With the new 'Limit' orders option, the backtest is using limit orders.
And, in order to automate the strategy, I added a 'Start Date' input. 0n the bar of the start date, an alert is triggered which contains one limit order for each grid step, which can be used to automatically place the limit buys for steps below the price and limit sells for steps above the price.
Then, on each step cross, the indicator will trigger and alert to place an order on the previous step. That way the grid is permanently covered with limit orders.
The alerts can be connected to my website using webhooks and using the alert message syntax I already wrote in the inputs. All you have to do is replace your bot id in the message, and create the alert. It still only takes one alert slot to automate the whole strategy.

30 gen 2023

Note di rilascio

Added new feature: "Trailing Up" !
The grid will automatically create new steps as price climbs up.
Note: When using this feature, the "start from" input must be set to "lower" step!

31 gen 2023

Note di rilascio

When using trailing up feature, the "grid quantity" is now used to create an additional number of steps above current price at start time.

31 gen 2023

Note di rilascio

Bug fixes when using grid quantity > 28
Added an input parameter to limit the amount of default limit orders in the alert (with too many orders, the alert message is too long and the indicator doesn't load)

3 feb 2023

Note di rilascio

New feature "Take Profit":
- Can be turned on/off
- Configure the % (percent) of total profit (net profit + open profit, or also called realized and unrealized PnL)
- Once that % is reached, the strategy will sell by closing all open orders at current price and stop.

Added take profit alert and updated alerts messages placeholders.
Updated open profit calculation in backtest panel.

13 feb 2023

Note di rilascio

Added Trend Line Filters to filter entries and exits:
1 trend line with the external indicator option and 1 MTF trend line.

Small fix regarding take profit: it will now cancel open orders in the backtest.

22 feb 2023

Note di rilascio

New: Trailing Stop Feature
Only works with Trailing Up mode activated (in long strategy)
1. Set your stop loss price
2. Activate trailing stop
The stop loss price will follow the lowest price of the grid as it moves up.
Example:

24 feb 2023

Note di rilascio

bugfixes: start alert

27 feb 2023

Note di rilascio

Fixed a bug with the grid not generating on some timeframes when trailing up activated.

24 mar 2023

Note di rilascio

Updated backtest panel currency

24 mar

Note di rilascio

Added {grid_step} and {grid_step_percent} placeholders in the alert messages for long and short alerts.

16 apr

Note di rilascio

Updated backtest panel "daily %" color

16 lug

Note di rilascio

Fixed a bug with the limit order strategy starting alert when limiting the number of orders in the alert.

12 nov

Note di rilascio

Visual bug Fix

14 nov

Note di rilascio

- Fixed an issue that left open the last step of the grid when price exits the range
- Updated backtest panel, improved readability