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No Trend Band

Postby heyen » Wed Jun 07, 2006 11:12 am

Hello,

i am testing an approach to sideways markets.

The ER2 Future moves very volatile sideways.

The idea is to create a delayed band around a moving average.
If price leaves the band it may be trending.
But if price moves back in the band, chances are it will go to the other side -
oscillating, moving sideways.

I do not have enough historical data yet to establish a long term proof.
But my 5 days ("curve fit" i know) is incredible.

Since i work with Amibroker Professional i wont post codes.
The model is fairly easy to remodel in TradeStation.
I have fit my model to the ER2.

Upper Band: lagging EMA + offset
Lower Band: lagging EMA - offset

Entry long: price crosses Lower Band from below
Exit long: price crossed Upper Band from below

Entry short: price crosses Upper Band from above
Exit short: price crosses Lower Band from above

Risk: Price trends within this Band.
A proper trend stop must be implemented.

Attached is a screenshot.

This did not work for ES or NQ well, just the ER2.

I thought i'd share it for evaluation.
Please dont use without proper backtesting!

Oh, i forgot: my timeframe here: 15 seconds.
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Postby blr121970 » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:50 am

Don't know how to export ELDs yet since I am a 2-month old TS user
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TS Function (DEMA):

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// --------------------------------------------------------------
// SYNTAX     dema( ARRAY, periods )
// RETURNS    ARRAY
// FUNCTION Calculates double exponentially smoothed average - DEMA.
// The function accepts time-variable periods.
//
// http://www.amibroker.com/guide/afl/afl_view.php?id=42
//
// DEMA can be implemented via EMA:
//
// Len=10;
// Graph0= 2 * EMA( C, len ) - EMA( EMA( C, len ), Len );
// for comparison only
// Graph1=DEMA(C,Len)
// --------------------------------------------------------------

Input:
   ClosePrice(Numeric),
   Len(Numeric);

DEMA = 2 * XAverage(ClosePrice, Len) - XAverage(XAverage(ClosePrice, Len), Len);



TS Strategy [SidewaysTrndngRevBnd]:

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// ------------------------------------------------------------------
// This is the sideways trending reversal band strategy
//
// Original Author   : Thomas Heyen
//
// Converted to TS by: Ryan B. Saldanha (blr121970@yahoo.com)
//
// Base Time Frame(on TS): 10 minutes (tested on @ER2.D)
// ------------------------------------------------------------------
Input:
    lfast       (3),
    llag        (25),
    lband       (2.3),
    sfast       (7),
    slag        (17),
    sband       (2.3);

Variables:
    lp          (lfast * 4),
    sp          (lfast * 4),
    labove      (0),
    lopen       (0.0),
    sabove      (0),
    sopen       (0),
    markethours (false),
    marketclose (false),
    _buy        (false),
    _cover      (false),
    _short      (false),
    _sell       (false),
    _stop       (0);

// --------------------------------------------
// Modify this to accomodate you local time
// --------------------------------------------
markethours = Time >= 0900 AND Time <= 1500;
marketclose = Time >= 1544 AND Time <= 2400;

// --------------------------------------------
// sideways trending reversal band
// --------------------------------------------
labove = DEMA(C,lp)[llag] - lband;
lopen  = DEMA(C,lp)[llag] + lband;

sabove = DEMA(C,lp)[slag] - sband;
sopen  = DEMA(C,lp)[slag] + sband;

_stop  = 0;
_buy   = (DEMA(C,lfast) crosses above labove)
         AND
         Markethours;

_short = (sopen crosses above DEMA(C,sfast))
         AND
         Markethours;

_sell  = (labove crosses above DEMA(C,lfast))
         OR
         (DEMA(C,lfast) crosses above lopen)
         OR
         marketclose
         OR
         _short;

_cover = (DEMA(C,sfast) crosses above sopen)
         OR
         (sabove crosses above DEMA(C,sfast))
         OR
         marketclose
         OR
         _buy;

_stop  = Iff((_buy OR _short), C[1], _stop[1]);

_sell  = (_stop>0)
         AND
         (C<_stop);

_cover = (_stop>0)
         AND
         (C>_stop);

If marketposition = 0 then
begin
    if _buy then
        Buy this bar
    else if _short then
        SellShort this bar;
end
else if  marketposition = 1 AND _sell then
    Sell this bar
else if _cover then
    BuyToCover this bar;

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Postby michal.kreslik » Fri Jun 09, 2006 9:48 am

blr,

to export ELD in Tradestation, hit File > Import/Export EasyLanguage > Export EasyLanguage Documents file (ELD)

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Postby blr121970 » Fri Jun 09, 2006 3:39 pm

Thank you Michal.

Attached is the strategy in ELD format.
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