Candlestick Reversal Patterns with Breakout Entries and Fixed Risk

Summary

This strategy identifies four reversal patterns: hammer and bullish engulfing for potential longs, and shooting star and bearish engulfing for potential shorts. It waits for price to cross the signal candle’s high or low before entering, rather than trading immediately when a pattern appears. The described risk model sizes positions from the distance to the signal candle’s opposite extreme and targets a larger reward than the initial risk, with different target multiples for long and short trades.

The document specifies a 1-hour trading timeframe and describes a 2% equity risk allocation per trade, alongside a BTC_USDT futures backtest configuration. It provides no actual backtest results or evidence for its claims about accuracy, win rate, or profitability. It also warns that ranging markets can produce false breakouts, while slippage, timeframe dependence, and parameter overfitting may weaken live performance. Suggested checks include out-of-sample evaluation, testing across market conditions, and considering trend filters or adaptive stops. The supplied code and narrative should be reviewed together before implementation, since a strategy description alone does not verify that its order and risk calculations work as intended.

Key ideas

• The strategy recognizes four named candlestick reversal patterns using candle bodies and wicks.
• It waits for a break of the signal candle’s extreme to confirm an entry.
• Position size is based on account equity risk and the distance to a stop level.
• The document reports no actual performance results to support its profitability claims.
• Ranging conditions, slippage, timeframe sensitivity, and overfitting are stated risks.

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