A POMDP-Inspired Strategy Combining Oscillators and Trend Signals

Summary

This document outlines a heuristic trading system that combines Stochastic RSI, Money Flow Index, MACD, and Bollinger Bands. It treats those indicators as multiple observations of uncertain market conditions and labels the approach POMDP-inspired. A long signal occurs when Stochastic RSI or MFI is oversold while MACD is above its signal line; a short signal uses the corresponding overbought readings and bearish MACD alignment. Positions are closed after a fixed holding period. Bollinger Bands are calculated and displayed, but they do not take part in the stated entry rules.

The source code applies these rules to directional futures positions, despite describing the trades as call and put debit spreads; it does not implement option spreads or a formal POMDP belief-state model. The document gives indicator settings and discusses risks such as fixed thresholds, indicator overlap, trend-market reversals, and early time exits. It includes backtest configuration details but no performance results, so it offers a rule set rather than evidence of an edge. Its suggestions—adaptive thresholds, price stops, market filters, and position sizing—are proposed improvements, not tested findings.

Key ideas

• The strategy combines Stochastic RSI or MFI extremes with MACD direction to generate trades.
• A fixed holding-period exit provides a time-based limit on exposure.
• Bollinger Bands are calculated and plotted but are absent from the entry conditions.
• The POMDP framing is conceptual; the supplied rules do not implement a formal POMDP model.
• The source trades directional futures positions rather than the option spreads named in its description.
• No backtest performance results are reported.

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