Up/Down Strategy - Contrarian

2021年11月3日

This is a consecutive bar up/down strategy for going long when the short condition is met or going short when the long condition is met. This is known in trading as taking contrarian signals and is helpful when an asset can provide only losses with a given strategy. In theory taking the opposing trade should produce a profit. With this strategy you can specify how many bars down to enter long and how many bars up to enter short. It also has code to check and make sure the condition is still true when launching the official alert, which helps back testing and live results line up, however be sure to enter commission and slippage into the properties to accurately reflect profits. I added back testing date ranges to this so you can easily pull up and see back tested results for a certain date range. I also added a buy and sell messages, close messages and take profit/stop loss message fields in the properties so you can launch alerts that will work with automated trading services. Simply enter your messages into those fields in the properties and then when you create an alert enter {{strategy.order.alert_message}} into the alert body and it will dynamically pull in your buy and sell messages when it fires alerts. I also added time restriction so you can enter trades only during the time frame specified. You can change it to any time frame, such at 0930-1600. Set the time restriction field to empty by default since otherwise the strategy won't take all trades like normal. So to enable time restriction enter a time frame in the format 0000-0000. I also added the ability to check off a box that will close the open trade at the end of the time restriction. So if you set the time frame to 0930-1600 and check off to enable close trade at end of time frame then it will look to exit the trade at the close of the next bar.