A Bollinger Midline Breakout Strategy with SMA, MACD, and ADX Filters

Summary

This strategy looks for directional moves using a 48-period simple moving average, the Bollinger Band middle line, MACD, and ADX. Long entries require price above both the average and Bollinger basis, positive MACD histogram difference, and ADX above its threshold; short entries apply the inverse conditions. Although the overview describes crosses as entry cues, the source checks whether price is currently above or below the reference levels. Optional profit, stop, and trailing exit settings are available, but their published defaults disable them.

The document presents the indicators as a way to combine direction and trend strength, while warning that sideways markets may create repeated signals and that ADX can misclassify conditions. Its backtest settings cover only one day of BTC-USDT futures data at a ten-minute strategy interval, and no performance statistics are reported. The proposed addition of ATR stops and further tuning are suggestions rather than tested improvements, so the material does not establish profitability or robustness across markets.

Key ideas

• Long entries require price above the 48-period average and Bollinger basis, positive MACD difference, and ADX above its threshold.
• Short entries use the corresponding downside conditions.
• Optional profit targets, stop losses, and trailing stops are configurable but disabled by default.
• The document identifies repeated signals in range-bound markets and imperfect trend filtering as risks.
• The published backtest spans one day and provides no performance results.

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