Gap Down Reversal StrategyA "Gap down Reversal" is when the current days candle, opens, below the prior days close, and "finishes up" on the day with the close greater than the open. This type of price action can provide traders with favorable entry points to trade long, as anyone who was short the prior day, can get squeezed or panic out of the trade as they would see profits erode quickly from the gap down at the open.
Strategy results are shown on SHOP with 10k starting capital and 10k per trade. The strategy enters at next days close after the gap down reversal fires off, and a 5% trailing stop order is also executed. This is important to understand when experimenting with different trailing stops on different symbols and observing results to find the most viable strategy. The discretionary trader may choose to enter at the close, or at the next days open, so understand results are not calculated for those entry points.
You also may alter the start date of the strategy, so you can include, or exclude certain dates.
Experiment with different stops and symbols! More volatile symbols most likely will need looser stops and Vice Versa. Concentrate on symbols in up trends, as "the dips" usually get consistently bought in these names, but hard reversals in downtrends can happen as well.
Any questions/concerns please let me know and happy trading. Strategy
Indicator
Indicator
Gap driven intraday trade (better in 15 Min chart)// Based on yesterday's High, Low, today's open, and Bollinger Band (20) in current minute chart,
// Defined intraday Trading opportunity: Stop, Entry, T0, Target (S.E.T.T)
// Back test in 60, 30, 15, 5 Min charts with SPY, QQQ, XOP, AAPL, TSLA, NVDA, UAL
// In 60 and 30 min chart, the stop and target are too big. 5 min is too small.
// 15 min Chart is the best time frame for this strategy;
// -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// There will be Four lines in this study:
// 1. Entry Line,
// 1.1 Green Color line to Buy, If today's open price above Yesterday's High, and current price below BB upper line.
// 1.2 Red Color line to Short, if today's open price below Yesterday's Low, and current above BB Lower line.
//
// 2. Black line to show initial stop, one ATR in current min chart;
//
// 3. Blue Line (T0) to show where trader can move stop to make even, one ATR in current min chart;
//
// 4. Orange Line to show initial target, Three ATR in current min chart;
//
// Trading opportunity:
// If Entry line is green color, Set stop buy order at today's Open;
// Whenever price is below the green line, Prepare to buy;
//
// If Entry line is Red color, Set Stop short at today's Open;
// Whenever price is above the red line, Prepare to short;
//
// Initial Stop: One ATR in min chart;
// Initial T0: One ATR in min chart;
// Initial Target: Three ATR in min chart;
// Initial RRR: Reward Risk Ratio = 3:1;
//
// Maintain: Once the position moves to T0, Move stop to "Make even + Lunch (such as, Entry + $0.10)";
// Allow to move target bigger, such as, next demand/supply zone;
// When near target or demand/supply zone or near Market close, move stop tightly;
//
// Close position: Limit order filled, or near Market Close, or trendline break;
//
// Key Step: Move stop to "Make even" after T0, Do not turn winner to loser;
// Willing to "in and out" many times in one day, and trade the same direction, same price again and again.
//
// Basic trading platform requests:
// To use this strategy, user needs to:
// 1. Scan Stocks Before market open:
// Prepare a watch list for top 10 ETF and Top 90 stocks which are most actively traded.
// Stock might be limited by price range, Beta, optionable, ...
// Before market open, Run a scan for these stocks, find which has GAP and inside BB;
// create watch list for that day.
//
// 2. Attach OSO and OCO orders:
// User needs to Send Entry, Stop (loss), and limit (target) orders at one time;
// Order Send order ( OSO ): Entry order sends Stop order and limit order;
// Order Cancel order ( OCO ): Stop order and limit order, when one is filled, it will cancel the other instantly;
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Gap Filling Strategy Gaps are market prices structures that appear frequently in the stock market, and can be detected when the opening price is different from the previous closing price, this is why gaps are also called "opening price jumps". While gaps can occur frequently, some of them are more significant than others, and can be observed when looking at a long term chart.
The following strategy is based on the exploitation of significant gaps occurring during a new session, and posses various options that can return a wide variety of results.
Type Of Gaps And Occurence
I'am not a professional when it comes to gaps, but as you know the stock market close for the day, however it is still possible to place orders, your broker will hold them until the market open back. Once the market reopen the broker execute the pending orders, and when many orders where pending the market register really high volume and the price might differ from the precedent close.
Gaps are generally broken down into four types:
Common : Gaps occurring within a certain price range, mostly occurs during ranging markets.
Break Away : Gaps breaking a support and resistance, making a new higher high/lower low.
Runaway : Gaps occurring within a trend, followed by a continuation of the trend.
Exhaustion : Gaps occurring at the end of a trend, followed by a reversal.
As said before, some gaps are more significant than others, the significance of a gap can be determined by comparing the opening price with the previous high/low price and by looking at volume. Significant up gaps will have an opening price greater than the previous high, while significant down gap will have an opening price lower than the previous low with both high volume accompanying them.
After a gap, when the price go back to the point previous to the gap we say that it has been "filled", this characteristic is what will be exploited in this strategy.
Strategy Rules & Logic
In this strategy, the significance of a gap is determined by the position of the opening price relative to the previous high/low and make sure the bar following the gap don't fill it.
When the setting invert is set to false the strategy interpret the detected gaps as being exhaustion gaps, therefore when an up gap occur a short position is opened, when a down gap occur a long position is opened. When invert is set to true gaps are considered to be runaway or break away gaps, therefore the contrary positions are opened. Positions are exited when the gap has been filled, which in the chart is show'n when the price cross the red level who act as either a take profit (invert = false) or as a stop loss (invert = true).
There are various closing conditions available that the user can select from the "close when" setting.
New Session : This option close all previous positions when the market is in a new session.
New Gap : This option close all previous position when a new gap has been detected.
Reverse Position : This option close all previous position when a contrary position to the current one is opened. This option would reduce the number of trades.
Testing On Some Stocks
The analysis will be tested in different tech stocks with a main TF of 15 minutes with no spread and commissions applied. Default settings will be used. We'll be making our first analysis using AMD, who has recently formed a full reverse HS pattern, where the neckline has been crossed by the price. (by the way i have a bad feeling about it, hey ! feeling filling ! Lame jokes!)
Profit: $ -12.22
Trades: 272
Profitability: 65.07 %
We can see negative results, with an heavily decreasing balance. Using invert would return positive results.
We will now test the strategy on NVDA, the company is one of the biggest when it comes to the Gpu market.
Profit: $ -215.54
Trades: 297
Profitability: 60.27 %
Not better, using invert would of course create better results. Like AMD the balance is heavily decreasing.
Finally we will test the strategy on Seagate technology, a company mostly known for their mechanical hard drives.
Profit: $ -4.32
Trades: 261
Profitability: 65.9 %
Here the balance does not appear so heavily decreasing and even managed to reach back the initial balance before going down again.
Summary
A strategy based on gap filling has been briefly introduced and tested with 3 tech stocks. The results show that using invert option might be better. The advantage of this strategy against ones using technical indicators is that this one does not heavily depend on user settings, which make it way more efficient, this a big advantage of patterns based strategies.
Thx to LucF for helping with the "process_orders_on_close" element, since i had to use closing price i had to remove it tho, was afraid results would differ even more from a more realistic backtest. And thx for those who continuously support me, more cool stuff is coming up.
Thx for reading and i hope you'll have learned something new today !
Strategy
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Katana Gaps Bounty Hunter (Show Gaps Counter) by RRBKatana Gaps Bounty Hunter (KGB_Hunter) by RagingRocketBull 2018
Version 1.0
This indicator shows/counts/filters gaps on a chart
There are several versions: Simple, Pro and Zones. This is the Simple version. The Differences are listed below.
- Simple: shows/counts gaps, changes color based on gap dir (2 colors), filters out price gaps within session, large gaps, and high volume gaps
- Pro: +shows all types of gaps, multi color, more filters (time gaps, doji, etc)
- Zones: +shows gaps as dynamic horiz zones
Features:
- highlights gaps using barcolor and plotchar chars (2 colors x 2 dirs)
- can show/hide gaps/chars based on gap dir
- changes color of gaps/chars based on gap dir
- displays chars above/below bar based on gap dir
- can filter out price gaps, large gaps, and high volume gaps
- counts all filtered gaps
Good Luck! Feel free to reuse the code and make it your own Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
Indicator
