DAX Two-Hour Oscillator Strategy with Stops and Walk-Forward Testing

Summary

This document outlines an automated DAX strategy on a two-hour chart. It calculates an oscillator from the percentage change between the current open and an earlier open, transformed with arctangent and sine functions. During a stated intraday trading window, an upward threshold crossing opens a long position and a downward crossing opens a short position. Each trade is assigned a fixed profit target and stop loss, and order accumulation is disabled.

The author says the parameter set was assessed with walk-forward analysis containing one out-of-sample period and describes this as evidence of robustness. The attached results and parameter image are not included in the text, so performance, costs, and the exact optimization procedure cannot be assessed here. The strategy is a simple threshold-crossing system whose behavior may depend on the selected parameters, session hours, and market regime. The document gives no broader evidence across instruments or out-of-sample periods.

Key ideas

• The strategy trades the DAX on a two-hour timeframe using threshold crossings of a transformed price-change oscillator.
• Positive crossings trigger long entries, while negative crossings trigger short entries during a defined trading window.
• Trades use fixed profit targets and stop losses, with order accumulation disabled.
• The author reports one out-of-sample period in a walk-forward analysis, but the underlying results are absent from the text.
• Parameter sensitivity, trading costs, and performance across other regimes or instruments are not documented.

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