M15 SP500 LowBuyHighSell

M15 SP500 LowBuyHighSell

Here is a strategy on the SP500, which in its raw version is already effective long and short. With similar settings the code is also effective on other indexes.
It is a mixture of gap close and mean reversion. We buy intraday below a low from the daily chart. We are selling above a high from the daily chart. The exit is the close of the previous day. So theoretically a gap closure. We exit open positions every evening and are flat overnight. A simple stoploss based on the daily range is also included in the algo. That’s all. Improvements and/or thoughts on this algo are always welcome.

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  1. BigDaddyMrDo • 357 days ago #

    Very nice. I optimised the main variables over different years, then forward tested and back tested. It seems to be quite robust in most conditions.

    Something I added that made sense to me, was a time of day to stop opening any new positions. I set this to 150000 (UTC), which allows time for trades to play out before the end of the day.

    It also seemed to be more profitable in most conditions to carry the trade overnight. It’s nice to close out at the end of day but since we’re only in the market around 6% of the time and we carry over even less than that, the overnight funding costs are relatively low.

    Thanks for sharing, this is an interesting strategy,

  2. phoentzs • 351 days ago #

    I was impressed by the robustness of the strategy. You can really only optimize individual years or even quarters and then test over the rest of the time… You don’t have any big negative surprises, which I really like. I chose the time window from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., i.e. the maximum so as not to over-optimize. You can certainly reduce the time window if there are improvements. You can also increase the number of trades per day… but then the drawdown will be more uncomfortable.

  3. virtuallyt23 • 349 days ago #

    Hello,
    Thanks for sharing. Could you tell why you’ve chosen 3 days period for Long trade but 13 days instead for Short ?

  4. Gio56 • 331 days ago #

    Bonjour,
    merci pour ce code.
    j’ai juste un problème sur le code, j’ai un message “L’instruction “Graph” ne peut pas être utilisée en trading automatique” en le passant en réel, alors que en backtest cela fonctionne.
    Quelqu’un sais comment résoudre le problème? merci.

    • Nicolas • 330 days ago #

      Il faut supprimer cette ligne qui est utile uniquement pour visualiser des valeurs durant les backtests.

  5. Gio56 • 329 days ago #

    Super merci Nicolas cela fonctionne. Top

  6. banjoo78 • 187 days ago #

    Which is the timezone’s setting of USA SP 500? I’ve differents results and I don’t know why… sorry

    • pdrh • 145 days ago #

      I have runit in the UTC+2 TZ and got matching results

  7. BaderBader • 73 days ago #

    Hey @banjoo78,

    maybe its because of your License for US Indices?

    Because I have the same probplem. If I backtest the strategy at S&P 15 minutes the strategy loses money. I dont have the full license package, so I can just choose Micro-E-mini S&P500 Only1224, Micro-E-mini S&P500 Only0325, Micro-E-mini S&P500 Full0924 (NG), Micro-E-mini S&P500 Only0925 (NG).

    Maybe the is the problem?

    Best regards
    Bader

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