Ichimoku Clouds Strategy Long and Short

Jan 26, 2024

Overview:
The Ichimoku Clouds Strategy leverages the Ichimoku Kinko Hyo technique to offer traders a range of innovative features, enhancing market analysis and trading efficiency. This strategy is distinct in its combination of standard methodology and advanced customization, making it suitable for both novice and experienced traders.

Unique Features:

1. Enhanced Interpretation: The strategy introduces weak, neutral, and strong bullish/bearish signals, enabling detailed interpretation of the Ichimoku cloud and direct chart plotting.
   
2. Configurable Trading Periods: Users can tailor the strategy to specific market windows, adapting to different market conditions.
   
3. Dual Trading Modes: Long and Short modes are available, allowing alignment with market trends.
   
4. Flexible Risk Management: Offers three styles in each mode, combining fixed risk management with dynamic indicator states for versatile trade management.
   
5. Indicator Line Plotting: Enables plotting of Ichimoku indicator lines on the chart for visual decision-making support.
   

Methodology:
The strategy utilizes the standard Ichimoku Kinko Hyo model, interpreting indicator values with settings adjustable through a user-friendly menu. This approach is enhanced by TradingView's built-in strategy tester for customization and market selection.

Risk Management:
Our approach to risk management is dynamic and indicator-centric. With data from the last year, we focus on dynamic indicator states interpretations to mitigate manual setting causing human factor biases. Users still have the option to set a fixed stop loss and/or take profit per position using the corresponding parameters in settings, aligning with their risk tolerance.

Backtest Results:

• Operating window: Date range of backtests is 2023.01.01 - 2024.01.04. It is chosen to let the strategy to close all opened positions.
  
• Commission and Slippage: Includes a standard Binance commission of 0.1% and accounts for possible slippage over 5 ticks.
  
• Maximum Single Position Loss: -6.29%
  
• Maximum Single Profit: 22.32%
  
• Net Profit: +10 901.95 USDT (+109.02%)
  
• Total Trades: 119 (51.26% profitability)
  
• Profit Factor: 1.775
  
• Maximum Accumulated Loss: 4 185.37 USDT (-22.87%)
  
• Average Profit per Trade: 91.67 USDT (+0.7%)
  
• Average Trade Duration: 56 hours
  

These results are obtained with realistic parameters representing trading conditions observed at major exchanges such as Binance and with realistic trading portfolio usage parameters. Backtest is calculated using deep backtest option in TradingView built-in strategy tester

How to Use:

1. Add the script to favorites for easy access.
   
2. Apply to the desired chart and timeframe (optimal performance observed on the 1H chart, ForEx or cryptocurrency top-10 coins with quote asset USDT).
   
3. Configure settings using the dropdown choice list in the built-in menu.
   
4. Set up alerts to automate strategy positions through web hook with the text: {{strategy.order.alert_message}}
   

Disclaimer:
Educational and informational tool reflecting Skyrex commitment to informed trading. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Test strategies in a simulated environment before live implementation

Mar 14, 2024

Release Notes

Update notes

Fixed alert duplication issue for external services by adding timestamp to alert message called with {{strategy.order.alert_message}}