Hello everyone
This indicator is the result of 7 years of trading (including 3 years of analyzing day and night how crypto assets behave).
I made it fully customizable but I wouldn't recommend changing the default values as they're the most optimal ones for now. Might change in the future but I'm very happy with the signals so far and I hope you'll be as well :)
Without further due, let's dig into it...
0 - Algo trading and Why
In the crypto trading, there is a lot of useless noise (we can probably thank Crypto Twitter for that :p) and a lot of useless data with the sole purpose is to lure you (who said Bitfinex Long/Short ratio or CME gaps ??)
I wanted to remove all the useless and only focus on Technical Analysis (TA) because I was deeply convinced that TA includes by design Fundamental Analysis (FA) and Pumponomics Analysis (PA) - PA being for instance when your favorite twitter guru will pump and dump on you
I heard that so many people got REKT from the previous bear market and I wanted to give back to the community - who helped me so much a few years back.
I worked hard to design the method and make it simple for the public and for FREE (so far as I want to collect feedbacks from the community and improving the indicator)
THIS IS MY GIFT TO YOU
1 - Input values
I'll explain later on through a medium article what each parameter means and how to set them up. For now, please used the optimized and recommended values already set in the indicator
2 - The method
This method works for intraday trading for timeframes between m5 and H1. Any timeframe above could work but would give signals too late - in this case, I would recommend changing the inputs with smaller values to adjust
I see a trend being composed of a main trend, and mini sub trends. In other words, for instance, a weekly bullish trend is made of smaller H4 bullish trends. Hope it makes sense so far
Let's call the weekly trend the MAIN trend and the H4 smaller trends the SECONDARY trends
That's exactly what this indicator is about
It will catch the best MAIN trend and all the SECONDARY trends in the same direction of the MAIN trend.
It's up to you if you want to take all the SECONDARY trends or only the first one in the sequence.
3 - Invalidation signal
A signal invalidation is used to make you exiting your position with a small loss before your stop loss will get hit. Very powerful way to save your capital and limit your losses.
You'll find the indicator here on tradingview for free under the name Trend signal with Alert (made by myself)
Trend signal with Alert
to invalidate entries. You'll need to request an invite
Briefly, let's assume we get a BUY signal. I would exit the position either if I'm getting a DOWN trend signal. It means, if the oblique/logarithmic trendline is broken, then it's better to exit the position and wait for the indicator to give another BUY signal later hopefully
Best case, it will limit your loss in case the asset will dump.
Worst case, this strict management strategy will make you exiting your position for no reason and you'll re-enter later (with a signal) at almost the same price or a bit higher
In the long run, this method will prevent you from having big losses
4 - Stop Loss and Take profits levels
It's really up to you. It depends of your capital and psychology
This indicator is made to give big moves but that's not 100% guaranteed. You can draw some trendlines or use moving averages in big timeframes to set your take profit and stop loss levels.
I personally use this also, along with fibonacci on the weekly/monthly timeframes for my take profit levels
As I'm a nice person, I'm linking the Fibonacci indicator that I use here
Automatic Multi-timeframes fibonacci zones
. You'll also need to request an invite for that one
4-bis - Trailing stop
Not financial advice but I use a supertrend and I have a software that will trail my stop according to that supertrend level
For LONG positions, we could set the trailing below the supertrend.
For SHORT positions, we could set the trailing above the supertrend.
You'll find the indicator here on tradingview for free under the name Supertrend V1.0 - Buy or Sell Signal
5 - Which assets
It's working with the default values on major/mid/small caps and for ALTS/BTC, ALTS/USD and ALTS/ETH pairing
YES, THIS IS MOST AWESOME THING OF THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE !!!
6 - Best setup
m15 timeframe is my preferred one for this method. Best Risk/Reward/Invalidations ratio among all other timeframes
I strongly recommend to use the Trend Signal with the input value 14 for the invalidations
If you enter on a BUY signal, and get a RED trend signal, exit immediately the position without waiting for any other confirmation/pullback or anything else
If you enter on a SELL signal, and get a BLUE trend signal, exit immediately the position without waiting for any other confirmation/pullback or anything else
For the trailing stop/Supertrend value, it depends of your capital and how big your stop loss should be. I personally use the settings in the Supertrend indicator
7 - Alerts
You can setup alerts for the primary and secondary signals in Tradingview so that you won't have to stare at the charts all day long. You mental healthy is my priority above everything else :)
8 - More to come
I personally use the alerts from this indicator coupled with a system to take the trades given by the tradingview alerts. I'll publish it later on if I feel the indicator collects enough interest from you guys