Strategy · Pine Script v4 · On the chart

Bollinger Bands Trending Reverse Strategy

by hasnocool

This strategy plots Bollinger Bands and an exponential moving average on the price chart.

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GitHub stars106on the repository
Pine versionv4older, still runs
Lines of code49
Settings6inputs
LicenceGPL-3.0
Last update2 years ago18 Sep 2024

Add It to Your TradingView Chart

  1. 1Copy the scriptPress Copy script above, or the copy button on the code below.
  2. 2Open the Pine EditorOpen a TradingView chart and choose Pine Editor at the bottom of the screen.
  3. 3Paste over the templateCreate a new strategy, select all of the template text and paste. Press Save and give it a name.
  4. 4Add it to the chartPress Add to chart. The trades and results appear in the Strategy Tester tab; adjust the settings with the gear icon.

Source Code

49 lines of Pine Script v4 from Bollinger Bands Trending Reverse Strategy.pine, published under GPL-3.0. Keep the author's credit and licence lines when you reuse it.

Bollinger Bands Trending Reverse Strategy.pine
//@version=4
// Welcome to yet another script. This script was a lot easier since I was stuck for so long on the Donchian Channels one and learned so much from that one that I could use in this one
// This code should be a lot cleaner compared to the Donchian Channels, but we'll leave that up to the pro's
// This strategy has two entry signals, long = when price hits lower band, while above EMA, previous candle was bearish and current candle is bullish
// Short = when price hits upper band, while below EMA, previous candle was bullish and current candle is bearish
// Take profits are the opposite side's band(lower band for long signals, upper band for short signals). This means our take profit price will change per bar
// Our stop loss doesn't change, it's the difference between entry price and the take profit target divided by the input risk reward which is set on entering a position
// At the time of writing this, I could probably calculate that much easier by simply multiplying the opposite band by the input risk reward ratio
// Since I want to get this script out and working on the next one, I won't clean that up, I'm sorry
strategy(shorttitle="BB Trending Reverse Strategy", title="Bollinger Bands Trending Reverse Strategy", overlay=true, default_qty_type = strategy.cash, default_qty_value = 150, initial_capital = 1000, currency = currency.USD, commission_type = "percent", commission_value = 0.036)
// The built-in Bollinger Band indicator inputs and variables, added some inputs of my own and organised the code
length              = input(20, minval=1)
src                 = input(close, title="Source")
mult                = input(2.0, minval=0.001, maxval=50, title="StdDev")
emaInput            = input(title = "EMA Input", type = input.integer, defval = 200, minval = 10, maxval = 400, step = 1)
riskreward          = input(title = "Risk/Reward Ratio", type = input.float, defval = 1.50, minval = 0.01, maxval = 100, step = 0.01)
offset              = input(0, "Offset", type = input.integer, minval = -500, maxval = 500)
basis               = sma(src, length)
dev                 = mult * stdev(src, length)
upper               = basis + dev
lower               = basis - dev
ema                 = ema(close, emaInput)
// These are our conditions as explained above
entryLong           = low[1] <= lower[1] and low <= lower and low > ema
entryShort          = high[1] >= upper[1] and high >= upper and high < ema
reversecandleLong   = close > open and close[1] < open[1]
reversecandleShort  = close < open and close[1] > open[1]
var stopLong        = 0.0
var stopShort       = 0.0
// These are our entry signals, notice how the stop condition is within the if statement while the strategy.exit is outside of the if statement, this way the take profit targets trails up or down depending on what the price does
if reversecandleLong and entryLong and strategy.position_size == 0
    stopLong := (((close / upper - 1) / riskreward + 1) * close)
    strategy.entry("Long Entry", strategy.long, comment = "Long Entry")
    
strategy.exit("Exit Long", "Long Entry", limit = upper, stop = stopLong, comment = "Exit Long")
if reversecandleShort and entryShort and strategy.position_size == 0
    stopShort := (((close / lower - 1) / riskreward + 1) * close)
    strategy.entry("Short Entry", strategy.short, comment = "Short Entry")
strategy.exit("Exit Short", "Short Entry", limit = lower, stop = stopShort, comment = "Exit Short")
// The built-in Bollinger Band plots
plot(basis, "Basis", color=#872323, offset = offset)
p1 = plot(upper, "Upper", color=color.teal, offset = offset)
p2 = plot(lower, "Lower", color=color.teal, offset = offset)
fill(p1, p2, title = "Background", color=#198787, transp=95)
plot(ema, color=color.red)
// These plots are to check the stoplosses, they can  make a mess of your chart so only use these if you want to make sure these work
// plot(stopLong)
// plot(stopShort)
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Overview

Bollinger Bands Trending Reverse Strategy enters long when price touches the lower band above the EMA and a bearish candle is followed by a bullish candle, and enters short on the mirrored upper-band setup. Exits use the opposite band as a take-profit limit that updates each bar, with a fixed stop derived from the entry, that band, and the risk-reward input. Band length, deviation, EMA length, reward ratio, and plot offset are adjustable. It opens only one position at a time.

Details

Published by

hasnocool on GitHub

Type

Strategy, Pine Script v4

Draws

On the price chart

Category

Trend, Moving averages, Volatility & bands, Mean reversion

Markets

Any symbol

Timeframes

Any timeframe

Risk Notes

No repainting, lookahead or stacked entries were found in its code or README. That says nothing about how well it works: test it first.

Topics

analysisbtcusdtcryptocurrencydatapandaspythonsimulationtradingtradingview

Settings

The inputs you can change from the gear icon on the chart. Defaults are the author's.

SettingTypeDefaultVariable
lengthint20length
Sourcesourceclosesrc
StdDevfloat2.0mult
EMA Inputint200emaInput
Risk/Reward Ratiofloat1.50riskreward
Offsetint0offset
Third-party code. ForexR did not write, test or endorse this script, and the summary above was generated automatically from its code and README. Indicators describe the past, and a strategy's backtest can look better than live trading, especially when a script repaints. Check it in the Strategy Tester and on a demo account before you rely on it.

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