Strategy Myth-Busting #10 - InsideBar+EMA - [MYN]This is part of a new series we are calling "Strategy Myth-Busting" where we take open public manual trading strategies and automate them. The goal is to not only validate the authenticity of the claims but to provide an automated version for traders who wish to trade autonomously.
Our 10th one we are automating is the " 75% Win Rate High Profit Inside Bar Trading Strategy - What If You ... " strategy from " Trade Pro " who claims to have backtested this manually and achieved 11,063% profit with a 75% winrate over 100 trades. I was unable to emulate these results consistently accommodating for slippage and commission but even so, the results look promising. I was only able to achieve this win-rate with some multiple take profit staggering. Even so the markdown is above where I would normally consider comfortable (>20%).
If you know of or have a strategy you want to see myth-busted or just have an idea for one, please feel free to message me.
This strategy uses a combination of 2 open-source public indicators:
Inside Bar Ind/Alert by CMA
EMA (built-in)
Trading Rules
4 hour candles
Stop Loss at EMA Line with TP Target 1.5x the risk
Long Entry when these conditions are true
inside bar and bullish
Bar close's above 50 ema
Price action rises above high of inside bar .
Short Entry when these conditions are true
inside bar and bearish
Bar close below 50 ema
Price action falls below low of inside bar
Inside bar
Inside Bar FailureYou can check edge profitability by adjusting the forward looking input, eg. how profitable is this signal after X bars.
Babypips: Inside Bar Momentum StrategyThe strategy contained in this post comes courtesy of babypips (.com), an excellent resource for all thing forex related. If you are new to trading, the site is definitely worth checking out!
Code commentary and an introduction to Inside Bars are available for this post on the Backtest-Rookies (.com) website.
Note: If you are interested in custom development services, please check out our services page on the Backtest-Rookies site.
Strategy Overview
Inside Bar Momentum Strategy.
Inside Bar Detection
Position sizing based on stoploss distance ( Note: Based on equity and assumes that the account currency is the counter currency.
Stop buys for entries
Takeprofit / Stoplosses for exits
Control Stopbuy, Takeprofit and Stoploss targets with inputs
Control Backtest start/end dates
Narrow Range + Inside Day, Short Only Strategy (by ChartArt)This short only strategy determines when there is both a NR7 (narrow range 7, a trading day in which the range is narrower than any of the previous six days), plus a inside day (high of the current day is lower than the high of the previous day and the low of the current day is higher than the low of the previous day) both on the same trading day and enters a short trade when the close is lower than the open and the slope of the simple moving average is downwards, too.
The strategy closes the short trade next time the daily close is lower than the open in any of the next trading days. In addition the NR7ID can be colored (the color is red when the close is lower that day than the open, else the color is green) and the SMA can be drawn with a color based on the direction of the SMA slope. To fine-tune the strategy it is highly recommended to change the period length of the SMA, which determines if the measured SMA slope is downwards or not. In this version 1.1 I made a small change to long only version. By default only the bearish NR7ID days are colored.
Inspiration:
How to trade NR7 and Inside Day Pattern
paststat.com
Code credit:
NR7 indicator script from Tradingview user Lazybear:
pastebin.com
P.S. You can find the 'long only' version of this trading strategy here:
Narrow Range + Inside Day, Long Only Strategy (by ChartArt)This long only strategy determines when there is both a NR7 (narrow range 7, a trading day in which the range is narrower than any of the previous six days), plus a inside day (high of the current day is lower than the high of the previous day and the low of the current day is higher than the low of the previous day) both on the same trading day and enters a long trade when the close is larger than the open and the slope of the simple moving average is upwards, too.
The strategy closes the long trade next time the daily close is larger than the open in any of the next trading days. In addition the NR7ID can be colored (the color is green when the close is larger that day than the open, else the color is red) and the SMA can be drawn with a color based on the direction of the SMA slope. To fine-tune the strategy it is highly recommended to change the period length of the SMA, which determines if the measured SMA slope is upwards or not.
Inspiration:
How to trade NR7 and Inside Day Pattern
paststat.com
Code credit:
NR7 indicator script from Tradingview user Lazybear:
pastebin.com
