Simple Bollinger Band Oscillator- Algorithmic trading

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About the strategy:

Simple Bollinger band oscillators are a technical analysis tool, specifically, they are a type of trading band or envelope. Trading bands and envelopes serve the same purpose, they provide relative definitions of high and low that can be used to create rigorous trading approaches, in the pattern. recognition, and for much more.
This strategy is pretty much straight forward and uses Bollinger upper and lower bands along with the current price.

Buy:
When close price crosses up the lower band of Bollinger.
CROSSOVER( Price[close], BBT(CLOSE, 25, 2, EXPONENTIAL))
Image: https://imgur.com/a/XSqUBJx
Sell:
When close price crosses down the upper band of Bollinger.
CROSSOVER( BBB(CLOSE, 25, 2, EXPONENTIAL),Price[close] )
Image: https://imgur.com/a/6GPzL7I

This strategy looks like this: Strategy Builder


Backtest results:

Returns--5.01 %

Market Returns--17.2 %

Start Value-0.05 BTC

Current Value-0.04707 BTC

Profit Factor-0.75

Returns vs Market-12.19 %

Annualized total return--19.08 %

Total Trades-11

Max Drawdown--15.54%

Sharpe Ratio--0.46

You can find the detailed view of the backtest along with the share by following the link

You can optimize the strategy by putting in STOP loss and Take Profits and also by playing with multiple time frames without coding.

Happy Trading!


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