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
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Three (3)-Bar and Four (4)-Bar Plays StrategyThis strategy analyzes the three and four-bar play which is when price action has a wide igniting bar that has a full body, then one or two narrow bars which have a relatively equal high for long plays and relatively equal low for short plays, then a continuation bar. You should not take plays that will encounter resistance. The stop loss is placed for long plays below the 2nd bar (or 3rd bar for 4-bar play).
This is commonly used on 1m, 2m, 5m, and 10m charts.
Jared Wesley is one of the more notable traders that use this setup. You can edit as an input the start date, end date, igniting bar size, the body percentage of the igniting bar, the relative equality of the 2nd bar (and 3rd bar for 4-bar play) compared to the igniting bar, and profit multiplier.
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
