Supertrend
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Multiple Time Frame Analysis show an UPTREND in all timeframes from the 4hr to the Monthly
Price trades above the Supertrend line on all time frames : UPTREND
Price is UPTREND above the Ichimoku Cloud SSSA/B lines
Technique : Aggressives buy when price retreats and bounces as close to the Supertrend line as possible and place stop loss on the SSSA line . Once price clears the Supertrend line comfortably, raise your stop loss to the Supertrend line.
Conservatives buy when price breaks through SSSB line and re-emerges from below to above the SSSA line. Buy on the first candlestick close ABOVE the SSSA line.
Target Price/EXIT : Sell only when your stop loss is hit = Supertrend is violated. If your initial trade had been successful, a raise of your stop loss from the SSSA line to your Supertrend Line would have given you a risk free trade covering your commission and cost of your trade.
SPX correction intensifies in the short termA close at 3329 in the SPX sits exactly on the SSSA line of the day ichimoku cloud.
A test of the base of the cloud is imminent. The baseline forms support for now. The Teken level on the weekly charts is at 3350, this has been violated giving way to more weakness.
Bottomline: A resumption in the uptrend must see a bounce from Friday's close at 3329 to 3375 for the MT/LT uptrend to resume. A break and hold below the SSSB line on the Day charts may signal a corrective move to 2973, The Supertrend line on the weekly.
STI OUTLOOK 140920. weakness persistsThe STI is struggling to hold on to 2500. All indicators are on a downtrend.
To negate short term weakness, the STI must close back above 2540 - 2586 and hold.
The Medium and Long term prospects are weak and in a persistent downtrend.
2200 is the next target is weakness persists in the MT.
SPX UPDATE 140920 : SHORT TERM WEAKNESSShort term weakness on the SPX since the short signal on the 030920 continues to the new trading week of 150920 spanning 14 days. Short term support is now between 3150 - 3280.
A break of 3150 will see a corrective retreat on the weekly charts to 2973.
Alternatively, a break and hold above 3443 will resume the uptrend of the SPX on all time frames.
Caution : STI closes below 3500.The STI is in its 8th month of correction since February 2020. The technical picture has worsened in the trading week starting 070920. My previous post on the 6th of Sep highlighted the technical weakness on all time frames. A worst case scenario of a test of 3200. It would be prudent for long only traders to lighten exposure for the last quarter of 2020.
For portfolio investors, they will be opportunities to look for trading ideas that I have and will continue to post as a trading idea.
For investors looking at buying on the dip, look for companies that have remained on an uptrend on the monthly charts that have held technically above the Ichimoku Cloud SSSA line.
SPX REBOUNDS TO TEST 3475The SPX has Rebound of its intraday lows of the week on the 9th of Sep to the Kijun Sen on the 4hr charts at 3475.
This is a 50% retracement based on Ichimoku cloud indicators. Pivot will be at 3400. A close and hold above 3400 will test the Supertrend level at 3475 which is also above the SSSA line. A break below the pivot will see the retest of the week's corrective lows. The SPX is still on a medium term uptrend on the Medium and Long Term charts. A close a hold above 3475 into the purple trading area will resume the longer term uptrend.
SuperTrail Indicator Video / Trailing Stop LossWas just playing around with the replay function in Trading View and thought I'd share this to show how the SuperTrail indicator worked on a couple of different stocks.
The SuperTrail is basically a modified SuperTrend but instead uses a percentage to allow you to manually set the trail level for individual stocks. Some need a wider trail, some a smaller one. You might set a trail based on the last months range, or the last 3 months. Totally up to you and the stock itself. The idea is to find what I call the natural range of a stock based on its past behaviour and hope that the stock maintains this range into the future. You can of course simply adjust it from time to time as the stock and the market goes through different behaviours (eg bull or bear), reacting to good or bad company news etc.
I use the percentage value that I come up with to set as my stop loss / trailing stop with my broker. This way if the stock drops below the trail value (which automatically moves up as the stock price moves up, but never down if the stock goes down), the stock will automatically sell and I will hopefully bank any profits. Works best of course with trending stocks. You could use the buy signal to go long and the sell signal to short. Main thing for me is I don't have to sit and watch the market and worry how my shares are going. If one is starting to go the wrong way, I automatically get out. Completely up to you how you use it. It is a very simple system :)
If you want to see more examples, just have a look at my profile, and if you would like access to the script, just message me and I'll send you the details.
Colored Directional Movement IndexWhat Is the Colored Directional Movement Index (CDMI)?
The Directional Movement Index, or DMI, is an indicator developed by J. Welles Wilder that identifies the direction of the price movements and the trend strength. DMI is a collection of three separate indicators (ADX, +DI, -DI) combined into one
ADX's purposes is to define whether or not there is a trend present and the other two indicators ( +DI and -DI ) serve the purpose of determining trend direction. By combining all three, a technical analyst has a way of determining and measuring a trend's strength as well as its direction
What to look for :
Trend Strength - Analyzing trend strength is the most basic use for the DMI.
Crosses : When +DI is above -DI, there is more upward pressure than downward pressure in the price. If -DI is above +DI, then there is more downward pressure in the price
DMI can provide quality information and even trading signals, but it is not an easy indicator to master and not easy to read within multiple lines
Here comes Colored Directional Movement Index (CDMI)
CDMI is still the same indicator but visualized on the top of the price chart with single line of coloured triangles. CDMI requires additional setting to be provided by user which are Strong Trend and Week Trend threshold levels. Wilder believed that a DMI reading above 25 indicated a strong trend, while a reading below 20 indicated a weak or non-existent trend. Hence the default values for strong trend is set to 25 and week trend set to 17
How to read CDMI , it is simply to read colours and shapes of the triangles
Tringle Shapes indicates the direction of the move and are calculated by comparing the values of +DI and -DI
triangle up shape when +DI is above -DI (+DI > -DI)
triangle down shape when +DI is below -DI (+DI < -DI)
Triangle Colours, there are four main colours:
Strong Bullish : Green is printed when ADX value is bigger than the Strong Trend Threshold +DI is above -DI (ADX > StrongThesh and +DI > -DI)
Strong Bearish : Red is printed when ADX value is bigger than the Strong Trend Threshold +DI is below -DI (ADX > StrongThesh and +DI < -DI)
Weak Trend : Black is printed when ADX value is lower than the Strong Trend Threshold and bigger than Week Trend Threshold ( ADX > WeekThesh and ADX < StrongThesh)
Even Weaker Trend : Yellow is printed when ADX value is lower than the Week Trend Threshold ( ADX < WeekThesh)
Additionally, Intensity changes of colours (between light and dark) will allow you to follow how ADX value is changing comparing it to its previous values.
If current value of ADX is bigger than the previous value of ADX a dark colour will be printed, otherwise when ADX value decrease a lighter colour will be printed
Please check links below for different usages of CDMI
Hope you enjoy this post and find it useful
GBPUSD Potential BUYExpecting price to retrace to the golden zone. Once price reaches the golden zone (50-60% Fib) I will look for a long position expecting price to reach Resistance Zone 1.26710. If price continues passed golden zone I will look for a short position. At that point I will look for price to reach Support Zone 1.23407.
Bitcoin to decide directionColored DMI indicates no stenght at the major historical support trendl line (orange line), being tested frequantly since May 07 and few times in the past.
PS : Colored DMI - customized interpratation of ADX +DI-DI, or shortly DMI
Momentum is squuezed
When looking of the formations it is defenetly rising wedge (purple lines), a sign for down trend ,
The price action is still within a channel (linear scale, could be useful for short term analysis. For this case the log scale shows channel broken but the price action does not support the same idea, hence assuming the linear scale and channel still not broken)
Ichimoku colored SuperTrend indicates range where the price action is above Kumo Cloud and TenkenSen line above KujinSen
My mid term bias will be for long expecially if the historical trend line is brokken (short term : may be some down movement or range for a while)
Some similarity can be observed when comparing with Stellar and Stellar moved above having nearly the same view of chart patterns
BITCOIN - Ascending Channel - SuperTrend reversal - 17% targetMy test bot triggered a buy signal about one hour ago on Bitcoin: BINANCE:BTCUSDT
It is good to see that we are in an Ascending Channel
The SuperTrend reversed, the take profit target is 17%, which has been a good number in the backtests I made.
The trade could have been filtered out by the ADX filter I included in the strategy but it was not, meaning we are in a trending market.
The SuperTrend will be used as a natural trailing stop loss, securing our trades.
Stay tuned!
Backtest below.
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SUPER TREND SCALPING / EURUSD SCALPINGBY THE HELP OF TWO TREND WE CAN TAKE THE POSITIONS
BUY ENTRY : WAIT FOR MAIN TREND CHANGE TO GREEN / THEN TAKE A LONG FROM THE FIRST GREEN ARROW IN SHORT TREND YOU CAN EXIT ON NEXT RED ARROW . YOU CAN REPEAT THE SAME UNTIL THE MAIN TREND CHANGES
SELL ENTRY : WAIT FOR MAIN TREND CHANGE TO RED/ THEN TAKE A SHOT FROM THE FIRST RED ARROW IN SHORT TREND YOU CAN EXIT ON NEXT GREEN ARROW . YOU CAN REPEAT THE SAME UNTIL THE MAIN TREND CHANGES
TIMES FRAMES 15 /30 /1 HOUR
NIFTY50,1H Heikin Ashi BullishThe hourly Heikin-Ashi chart of NSE:NIFTY has retested the prior top at 11100 area.
There is a bullish signal (3 green arrows) on the Multiple Super-trend indicator that I use.
These arrows need not be on consecutive candles but when they are the signal strength is higher.
BATTLE OF THE SUPERTRENDS. And The Winner Is...BATTLE OF THE SUPERTRENDS
Here is an interesting comparison of many of the Top "Supertrend Strategies" that are published here on Tradingview (Including my own: "SUPER SMART ST") . Please note that all test shown here were done using Heikin Ashi candles, which seem to improve Supertrends functionality ...
15 MINUTE (BTC/USD) COMPARISONS
ONE HOUR (BTC/USD) COMPARISONS
FOUR HOUR (BTC/USD) COMPARISONS
Recently I released several SUPERTREND based indicators, studies and strategies. In fact, I created an entire " Trading Toolkit " that incorporates Supertrend along with many other built-in Indicators, Oscillators and Technical Analysis Tools.
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I decided to compare my "Super Smart" SuperTrend with the SuperTrend strategies others had published. As you can see in screenshots above, the results were very interesting. What follows is a summary of my experiences and journey surrounding this super topic.
IT STARTED WITH BACKTESTING
After a lot of thought and "playing around" with SuperTrend over the past few months, I was compelled to perform hundreds of backtests across many cryptocurrencies and all the common timeframes. I was seeking to improve upon SuperTrend (if I could) without degrading any of it's many inherent qualities.
But before I jump into my personal journey toward a "Smart" Supertrend, let me share a few thoughts with those of you who are new to Supertrend...
WHAT IS SUPERTREND?
As the name suggests (and as many of you likely already know) , 'Supertrend' is a trend-following indicator that is notably popular.
WHY?
Well, it does a remarkably great job of recognizing a trend (once in progress) and signaling you to when to jump into a trade after the trend is clear. However, many traders feel the greater value of Supertrend is that it helps KEEP YOU IN your position until that trend is over by ignoring minor dips and retracements along the way. Yes, supertrend has it's short comings (detailed later) , but boy... when it's right, it can be very profitable.
IT SOUNDS SO EASY
When you look at any Supertrend chart (in history) it looks so impressive. You begin to fantasize about gains and profits. After all, Supertrend maps out many impressive price movements. It just seems so easy, right? But you soon realize that "trusting" what Supertrend is telling you is hard... "BUY, BUY, BUY... this is a friggin' trend." But you doubt yourself and what Supertrend is telling you and you hesitate. Been there?
Then you finally get in and Supertrend starts yelling... "STAY IN, STAY IN, STAY IN"... but you're up a percentage point (or two) already and you don't want to lose your profit. You exit. Usually way too soon. You're super happy until you see Supertrend continuing to track along with a monster trend. You missed out! Bummer.
SECRETS OF SUPERTREND
You have to remember a couple of secrets to get Supertrend to work the way you've fantasized:
1) Trust it, get in when it signals and stay in until it signals you to exit.
2) Accept the fact that Supertrend does not work well in sideways markets, so if you detect that this is what is forthcoming in the market... lay back, go do some GRID TRADING or have a beer. Wait for a trending market (unfortunately this is usually less than 30% of the time).
3) Should you enter on a Supertrend signal and discover after-the-fact you are in a flat or sideways market, exit as soon as this is clear or at the latest, when Supertrend signals an exit. Yes, you might have a loss. But don't assume Supertrend didn't work, it did work but the market did not have a trend worth following, so you'll have to enter again on the next signal. For every big Supertrend trade you nail, you'll have to wade through perhaps 6 or 7 not so great trades.
4) To improve your odds, try combining Supertrend with other indicators. Often it's a combination of things that gives you your optimal ins and outs.
Speaking of combinations...
STONEHENGE SUPERTREND PLUS (Toolkit)
It was "Secret #4" (above) that lead me to create the " Stonehenge Supertrend Plus Toolkit. "
This features THREE Supertrends:
A CURRENT timeframe Supertrend,
A HIGHER timeframe Supertrend and
My exclusive SUPER SMART Auto-Adjusting Supertrend.
In addition, it is closely integrated with dozens of other indicators and data points.
BUT WHY THE FUNNY MEGALITHIC NAME?
Well, it looks like Stonehenge! Check it out... it displays an array of stones arranged in a manner that does a pretty good job of predicting the future. Learn to read these stones and you can sometimes predict the future!
And best of all, these Stonehenge "predictive stones" not only incorporate Supertrend data but they also enhance Supertrend as you consider entry and exit points along the way.
LET ME CLARIFY
1) There is Supertrend (the standard indicator)
2) There is SUPER SMART SUPERTREND (a version I optimized)
3) Then there is STONEHENGE (a multi-indicator toolset that incorporates Supertrend and Super Smart Supertrend)
LET ME CLARIFY FURTHER
My indicators here have TWO parts that work together:
1) An overlay that appears on the chart with your candles.
2) A separate stand-along indicator that presents data as an array of colored "stones" which help predict future price movement.
AND YET FURTHER CLARIFICATION
1) I have both free and paid versions of everything.
2) I have both Strategy and Study versions of everything.
3) Strategy versions allow BACKTESTING, while Study versions have ALARMS.
IT MIGHT SOUND COMPLICATED, BUT...
If you're confused, just install a free version ( part 1 and part 2 ) and explore this for a few days. If you like what you see, you might consider the more advanced STONEHENGE TOOLKIT . That's all there is to it!
Now back to our regularly scheduled programming!!!
WHAT'S SO SMART ABOUT SUPER SMART SUPERTREND?
As I built the Stonehenge Toolkit, I kept noticing that the Supertrend part had a very annoying downside: Entry signals lagged and Exit signals came late. If those two things could be improved, Supertrend would be really "Super."
After much trial and error and even more backtesting I developed a solution that achieved my goals without OVER modifying Supertrends' inherent qualities. In a nutshell, I made Supertrend smarter!
MANY PEOPLE ASK...
What's the best ATR period and multiplier setting for Supertrend? After all, there are typically only two important data points we must enter for Supertrend to work, namely the 'period (ATR number of candles or days)' and the 'multiplier (value by which ATR is multiplied).' BTW, in case you don't know, ATR signals the degree of price volatility. A common default setting is 10 for the ATR period and 3 for the multiplier.
While this is good to know, Super Smart Supertrend already has well tested default settings built-in, so you can install it and use it right away, without adjusting settings in the beginning. Just plug and play.
HOW IT WORKS
So here's what I did. Using data from other indicators I came up with a SMART SUPERTREND that auto-adjusts as the market changes. It still has settings so you can fine tune for specific assets and timeframes (if you like) , but once the settings are entered, it auto-adjusts as the market and prices evolve.
With "Super Smart SuperTrend" there is no ATR period setting (ATR is determined programmatically) and now there are TWO multipliers you can experiment with... (a lower one set at 1.7 default and a higher one at 2.5). These multiplier settings create a multiplier range that can be used programmatically to adjust the multiplier automatically as the market and prices evolve.
BTW, there is also a separate STANDARD Supertrend that you can run parallel or turn on/off to compare things if you like.
THE RESULTS
Across all time frames and assets I've tested, I generally get better results with my "Smart" version. Better entries, better exits and well defined trends. However, when compared with a STANDARD Supertrend, "Super Smart" is not radically different, but when it does differ it is almost always better. All this is substantiated by backtesting of course.
BATTLE OF THE SUPERTRENDS
How good is SUPER SMART SUPERTREND? You can decide for yourself. I ran backtests on 8 Supertrend strategies I found here at Tradingview (sample results posted above). I set my charts to use Heikin Ashi candles as these seem to improve Supertrend in general. These comparisons were the best 8 I could find and I commend each author/coder for their fine work. I was not trying to out-do any one, I just wanted to improve my trading results. I'm also rather sure some other strategy will eventually out perform Super Smart Supertrend. And if they do, great! I believe in making more money, not making more indicators!
I tested all of the scripts found here:
www.tradingview.com
I used the timeframes of 15 minutes, 1 hour and 4 hours (as published above) . And I used the default settings built-in to each script strategy and again, with Heikin Ashi candles. I fully understand that you can tweak the settings on any Supertrend strategy and get different results.
I hope you have as much fun with this "BATTLE OF THE SUPERTRENDS" as I had creating it. But at the end of the day, I hope you install and try one of my indicators in the very near future and try the Supertrend indicators by these other authors (linked above).
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MY SUPERTREND BASED INDICATORS
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The free versions are extremely powerful and will serve you well, they will also give you a preview of the even more powerful "STONEHENGE SUPERTREND PLUS TRADING TOOLKIT." I recommend you use both Stonehenge AND a Companion overlay.
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STONEHENGE SUPERTREND PLUS TOOLSET (paid versions)
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DH: (Strategy) Stonehenge SuperTrend Plus Toolkit / Stones
DH: (Companion) Stonehenge SuperTrend Plus Toolkit / Overlay
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STONEHENGE BASIC TOOLSET (free versions)
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STONEHENGE SUPERTREND BASIC (Double Stone Indicator Version)
(You may use either of the SUPERTREND overlays below as a companion with this "double stone" indicator)
DH: (Study) Basic Stonehenge SuperTrend - Double Stone Version
SUPER SMART SUPERTREND (Overlay Companion Indicators)
DH: (Study) Super Smart SuperTrend: Self Adjusting
DH: (Strategy) Super SmartSuper Trend: Backtest Version
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