CBMA Bollinger Band Breakouts with Reversal Entries

Summary

This strategy places Bollinger Bands around a centerline built from an adaptive EMA and Hull moving average blend, with an option to use a conventional simple moving average instead. Its stated rule is contrarian at the bands: a move above the upper band prompts a short, while a move below the lower band prompts a long. The source implements entries around price crossing back through the bands, using stop orders that are canceled when the corresponding condition no longer holds. The settings include a band multiplier and lengths for the centerline and smoothing.

The document presents the method as a breakout or trend-following system, but its reversal-style directional rules and source order conditions make that characterization ambiguous. It flags false breakouts, band parameter sensitivity, fixed order size, and the absence of a stop loss in the shown source as concerns. Published test settings identify BTC/USDT futures over a short late-2023 interval, but no performance metrics are given, so effectiveness cannot be assessed from this material.

Key ideas

• The bands use a blended adaptive EMA and Hull moving average centerline, with a standard-deviation envelope.
• The described signals sell above the upper band and buy below the lower band.
• The source uses stop entries on crosses back through band levels and cancels pending orders when conditions cease.
• False breaks, parameter choice, fixed sizing, and the lack of a visible stop loss are limitations.
• The published BTC/USDT futures test configuration has no accompanying performance results.

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