Bear Power Strategy Using Candle Ranges and Thresholds
Summary
The strategy constructs a Bear Power value from current and prior candle prices, including the open, close, high, and low. Its piecewise calculation adjusts for whether the current and previous candles closed above or below their opens. It then compares the resulting value with two thresholds: crossing above the sell level switches the position short, while falling to or below the buy level switches it long. A reverse-trading option can invert those directions.
The document describes the idea as suitable for medium-term trading and gives example threshold settings, but its published BTC/USDT futures backtest spans only a few days and includes no performance statistics. The claimed drawdown control or predictive usefulness is not established by this evidence. The strategy has no stated stop-loss mechanism and omits transaction costs and slippage; the article itself notes that signals may fail in ranging markets and that single-indicator systems can be overfit. It suggests testing added filters and risk controls rather than presenting them as implemented features.
Key ideas
- Bear Power is calculated from candle ranges and the relationship between current and prior candle direction.
- Crossing above the sell threshold signals a short position, while reaching the buy threshold signals a long position.
- A reverse option can swap the long and short directions.
- The published backtest is very brief and reports no performance results.
- Trading costs, slippage, signal failures, and the absence of a described stop loss limit the evidence.
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