ALMA & UT Bot Confluence StrategyALMA & UT Bot Confluence Strategy
This is a comprehensive trend-following and momentum strategy designed to identify high-probability trade setups by combining multiple layers of confirmation. It is built around an ALMA (Arnaud Legoux Moving Average) and a long-term EMA, and then enhances signal quality with the popular UT Bot indicator, a Volume Filter, and an adaptive hold mechanism.
The primary goal of this strategy is to filter out market noise, avoid low liquidity traps, and provide more robust and selective trading logic by adapting its timing to changing market volatility.
Key Features and How It Works
This strategy is not a simple crossover system. An entry signal is generated by the confluence of only a few conditions:
Underlying Trend and Signal Engine:
ALMA (Arnaud Legoux Moving Average): Provides a responsive, low-latency signal line for entries. EMA (Exponential Moving Average): A longer-term EMA acts as a primary trend filter, ensuring trades are executed only in line with the overall market trend.
Confirmation Layer:
UT Bot Confirmation: A trade is considered valid only when the UT Bot indicator provides a relevant buy or sell signal. This acts as a strong secondary confirmation, reducing false entries.
Advanced Filters for Signal Quality:
Volume Filter: This is an important safety mechanism that prevents trades from being executed in low-volume, illiquid markets where price action can be erratic and unreliable.
Momentum Filter (ADX and RSI): The strategy uses the ADX to check for sufficient market momentum and the RSI to ensure it doesn't enter overbought/oversold zones.
Volatility Filter (Bollinger Bands): This helps prevent entries when the price deviates too far from its average, preventing "buying at the top" or "selling at the bottom." Adaptive Timing (Dynamic Cool-Down):
Instead of a fixed waiting period between trades, this strategy uses a dynamic cooling-down period based on the ATR. It automatically waits longer during periods of high volatility (to prevent volatility) and becomes more responsive in calmer markets. How to Use This Strategy:
Long Entry (BUY): When all bullish conditions align, a green "BUY" triangle appears below the price.
Short Entry (SELL): When all bearish conditions align, a red "SELL" triangle appears above the price.
Trend Visualization: The chart background is color-coded according to UT Bot's trend direction (Green for an uptrend, Red for a downtrend), allowing for at-a-glance market analysis.
Double Exit Strategy Options
You have full control over how you exit trades:
Classic SL/TP: Use a standard Stop-Loss and Take-Profit order based on ATR (Average True Range) multipliers. UT Bot Trailing Stop (Recommended): A dynamic exit mechanism that follows the price allows your winning trades to catch up to larger trends while protecting your profits.
Disclaimer
This script is for educational purposes only and should not be construed as financial advice. Past performance is not indicative of future results. All trades involve risk. Before risking any capital, we strongly recommend extensively backtesting this strategy across your preferred assets and timeframes to understand its behavior and find settings that suit your personal trading style.
The author recommends using this strategy with Heikin-Ashi candlesticks. Using this method will significantly increase the strategy's trading success rate and profitability in backtests.
You should change the settings according to your preferred chart time range. You can find the best value for you by observing the value changes you make on the chart.
Utbot
UT Bot + LinReg Candles (Dual Sensitivity)
Script Description:
This indicator combines the popular UT Bot Alerts system with Linear Regression Candles (open source) for enhanced trend detection and trading signals in one singel script. The UT Bot features independent, then 2 x ATR sensitivity and periods controls for buy and sell signals, allowing you to fine-tune entries and exits to match your strategy. The script also overlays colored Linear Regression Candles with an optional signal line, helping you visually identify trend strength and direction. All calculations are performed on standard chart prices (no Heikin Ashi). Suitable for all asset classes and timeframes.
Eample setting for usdjpy 5 min chart for repeated buy and sell singnals based on trend:
BUY ATR period 300 multiplier 1
SELL ATR period 1 multiplier 2
Disclaimer:
This script is for informational and educational purposes only. It is not financial advice. Use at your own risk; the author assumes no responsibility for any trading results or losses.
Credits goes to to Ugurvu for linreg candles and quantnomad for UT Bot alerts that make this script possible.
Author: Patrick
UT Bot Stochastic RSIUT Bot Stochastic RSI is a powerful trading tool designed to help traders identify potential buy and sell signals in the market. This indicator combines the Stochastic and RSI (Relative Strength Index) oscillators, two of the most popular and effective technical analysis tools, to provide a comprehensive view of market conditions.
The Stochastic oscillator is a momentum indicator that compares a security's closing price to its price range over a given time period. The RSI, on the other hand, is a momentum oscillator that measures the speed and change of price movements. By combining these two indicators, the UT Bot Stochastic RSI can help traders identify overbought and oversold conditions, as well as potential trend reversals.
The UT Bot Stochastic RSI also includes an ATR (Average True Range) trailing stop, which can be used to set stop-loss levels and manage risk. This feature is particularly useful in volatile markets, where price movements can be large and unpredictable.
In addition to its powerful technical analysis tools, the UT Bot Stochastic RSI also includes a backtesting feature, allowing traders to test their strategies on historical data. This can help traders identify the most effective settings for the indicator and improve their trading performance.
Overall, the UT Bot Stochastic RSI is a versatile and effective tool for traders of all levels, providing valuable insights into market conditions and helping to improve trading decisions
Strategy for UT Bot Alerts indicator Using the UT Bot alerts indicator by @QuantNomad, this strategy was designed for showing an example of how this indicator could be used, also, it has the goal to help some people from a group that use to use this indicator for their trading. Under any circumstance I recommend to use it without testing it before in real time.
Backtesting context: 2020-02-05 to 2023-02-25 of BTCUSD 4H by Tvc. Commissions: 0.03% for each entry, 0.03% for each exit. Risk per trade: 2.5% of the total account
For this strategy, 3 indicators are used:
UT Bot Alerts indicator by Quantnomad
One Ema of 200 periods for indicate the trend
Atr stop loss from Gatherio
Trade conditions:
For longs:
Close price is higher than Atr from UT Bot
Ema from UT Bot cross over Atr from UT Bot.
This gives us our long signal. Stop loss will be determined by atr stop loss (white point), break even(blue point) by a risk/reward ratio of 0.75:1 and take profit of 3:1 where half position will be closed. This will be showed as buy (open long position)
The other half will be closed when close price is lower than Atr and Ema from UT Bot cross under Atr. This will be showed as cl buy (close long position)
For shorts:
Close price is lower than Atr from UT Bot
Ema from UT Bot cross over Atr from UT Bot.
This gives us our short signal. Stop loss will be determined by atr stop loss (white point), break even(blue point) by a risk/reward ratio of 0.75:1 and take profit of 3:1 where half position will be closed. This will be showed as sell (open short position)
The other half will be closed when close price is higher than Atr and Ema from UT Bot cross over Atr. This will be showed as cl sell (close short position)
Risk management
For calculate the amount of the position you will use just a small percent of your initial capital for the strategy and you will use the atr stop loss for this.
Example: You have 1000 usd and you just want to risk 2,5% of your account, there is a long signal at price of 20,000 usd. The stop loss price from atr stop loss is 19,000. You calculate the distance in percent between 20,000 and 19,000. In this case, that distance would be of 5,0%. Then, you calculate your position by this way: (initial or current capital * risk per trade of your account) / (stop loss distance).
Using these values on the formula: (1000*2,5%)/(5,0%) = 500usd. It means, you have to use 500 usd for risking 2.5% of your account.
We will use this risk management for apply compound interest.
In settings, with position amount calculator, you can enter the amount in usd of your account and the amount in percentage for risking per trade of the account. You will see this value in green color in the upper left corner that shows the amount in usd to use for risking the specific percentage of your account.
Script functions
Inside of settings, you will find some utilities for display atr stop loss, break evens, positions, signals, indicators, etc.
You will find the settings for risk management at the end of the script if you want to change something. But rebember, do not change values from indicators, the idea is to not over optimize the strategy.
If you want to change the initial capital for backtest the strategy, go to properties, and also enter the commisions of your exchange and slippage for more realistic results.
In risk managment you can find an option called "Use leverage ?", activate this if you want to backtest using leverage, which means that in case of not having enough money for risking the % determined by you of your account using your initial capital, you will use leverage for using the enough amount for risking that % of your acount in a buy position. Otherwise, the amount will be limited by your initial/current capital
---> Do not forget to deactivate Trades on chart option in style settings for a cleaner look of the chart <---
Some things to consider
USE UNDER YOUR OWN RISK. PAST RESULTS DO NOT REPRESENT THE FUTURE.
DEPENDING OF % ACCOUNT RISK PER TRADE, YOU COULD REQUIRE LEVERAGE FOR OPEN SOME POSITIONS, SO PLEASE, BE CAREFULL AND USE CORRECTLY THE RISK MANAGEMENT
Do not forget to change commissions and other parameters related with back testing results!
Strategies for trending markets use to have more looses than wins and it takes a long time to get profits, so do not forget to be patient and consistent !
---> The strategy can still be improved, you can change some parameters depending of the asset and timeframe like risk/reward for taking profits, for break even, also the main parameters of the UT Bot Alerts <----
