STRATEGY LIBRARY
Chart strategies you can backtest
Well-known chart strategies from books and videos, written out as rules. Before trusting a published rule, backtest and validate it yourself on the symbols and timeframe you care about.
Essentials
Trend following- Source
- Classic trend following · the best-known moving-average rule
- Entry
- 50-day SMA crosses above the 200-day SMA
- Exit
- 50-day SMA crosses below the 200-day SMA (death cross)
- What changed when written as rules
- No stop or target in the original: -90% stop and 100R target keep them out of the way
See the backtest result →Pullback- Source
- Larry Connors, Short Term Trading Strategies That Work (2008)
- Entry
- Close > 200-day SMA and RSI(2) < 10
- Exit
- Close above the 5-day SMA
- What changed when written as rules
- No stop in the original (-90% keeps it out of the way); an equity-index rule applied to BTC unchanged
See the backtest result →Momentum- Source
- Trading Rush YouTube MACD strategy (the 100-trade test video)
- Entry
- Close > 200 EMA and MACD crosses above its signal line below zero
- Exit
- Stop at the last swing low · 1.5R target
- What changed when written as rules
- Originally tested on 30-minute forex charts; the same rules here on daily BTC
See the backtest result →Classics
Breakout- Source
- Richard Dennis & William Eckhardt Turtle rules (1983)
- Entry
- Close above the prior 20-day high
- Exit
- Close below the prior 10-day low · 2N stop (2× ATR)
- What changed when written as rules
- Intraday breakouts become close-confirmed entries at the next open; N uses ATR(14) instead of ATR(20); pyramiding and the skip-after-win rule are omitted
See the backtest result →Mean reversion- Source
- The standard countertrend pairing of Bollinger Bands (20, 2) with oversold RSI(14)
- Entry
- Close below the lower band and RSI(14) < 30
- Exit
- Close back above the middle band (20-day SMA) · 2× ATR stop
- What changed when written as rules
- Common default settings, no squeeze filter
See the backtest result →Pullback- Source
- Linda Raschke & Laurence Connors, Street Smarts (1995)
- Entry
- ADX(14) > 30, 20 EMA rising 3 bars, low touches the 20 EMA and the close holds above it
- Exit
- Stop at the last swing low · 2R target
- What changed when written as rules
- The buy stop above the pullback bar becomes a next-open entry; the exit at the prior swing high becomes a 2R target
See the backtest result →Trend following- Source
- Goichi Hosoda's Ichimoku Kinko Hyo strong buy signal
- Entry
- Close above the cloud, Tenkan crosses above Kijun, close above the close 26 bars ago (Chikou)
- Exit
- Close below the Kijun-sen
- What changed when written as rules
- Default settings (9, 26, 52, 26); no separate stop, so -90% keeps it out of the way
See the backtest result →From YouTube
Momentum- Source
- Data Trader YouTube three-indicator strategy
- Entry
- %K and %D below 20 within the last 10 bars, %K now below 80, RSI(14) > 50, MACD > signal
- Exit
- Stop at the last swing low · 1.5R target
- What changed when written as rules
- The video's "oversold, then RSI and MACD confirm" sequence is a 10-bar window; originally shown on short-term charts
See the backtest result →Momentum- Source
- Data Trader YouTube MACD strategy (about 2.9M views)
- Entry
- Close > 100 EMA and MACD crosses above its signal line
- Exit
- Stop at the last swing low · 1.5R target
- What changed when written as rules
- Only the beginner rule; the advanced support/resistance rule cannot be expressed and is omitted
See the backtest result →Pullback- Source
- Rayner Teo YouTube RSI strategy (about 1.8M views)
- Entry
- Close > 200-day SMA and RSI(10) < 30
- Exit
- RSI(10) > 40 or after 10 bars
- What changed when written as rules
- No stop in the original (-90% keeps it out of the way); an S&P 500 rule applied to BTC unchanged
See the backtest result →Mean reversion- Source
- TradingLab YouTube Bollinger + RSI strategy (about 1.8M views)
- Entry
- Close below the lower Bollinger band (30, 2) and RSI(13) < 25
- Exit
- Close back above the middle band (30-day SMA)
- What changed when written as rules
- The video gives no stop (-90% keeps it out of the way); the divergence variant is left out
See the backtest result →Pullback- Source
- The Trade Room YouTube 9 & 15 EMA scalping strategy (about 5.3M views)
- Entry
- EMA 9 above EMA 15 and both rising 3 bars, low touches EMA 9 with the close above it, on a pin bar, engulfing or large-body (60%+) candle
- Exit
- Stop at the low of the signal candle · 2R target
- What changed when written as rules
- The "30° slope" becomes 3 rising bars. The original trades Indian index options on 5-minute charts; the Nifty/Bank Nifty cross-check is omitted
See the backtest result →Trend following- Source
- The Moving Average YouTube 5-minute scalping strategy (about 2.8M views)
- Entry
- Smoothed averages 21 > 50 > 200 with the close above the 200, a bullish engulfing candle, RSI(14) > 50
- Exit
- Stop at the last swing low · 2R target
- What changed when written as rules
- A smoothed average of length n equals EMA(2n−1), so EMA 41, 99 and 399 are used. The London-session filter, 1-hour support/resistance and the three-line-strike signal are omitted, and the 5-minute rules run on daily BTC
See the backtest result →Momentum- Source
- TradingLab YouTube MACD strategy (about 4.6M views)
- Entry
- Close > 200 EMA and MACD crosses above its signal line below zero
- Exit
- Stop at the 200 EMA · 1.5R target
- What changed when written as rules
- The "200-day moving average" of the video is entered as an EMA. Entering only on a retest of support cannot be expressed and is omitted
See the backtest result →These are published techniques written as research rules. They are not recommendations to buy or sell any asset and do not promise returns. Results claimed by the original sources have not been verified by this service.
Backtest it in LogiCandle →