NIFTY Momentum Entries with ATR Targets and Structural Stops

Summary

This NIFTY strategy scans intraday candles during a specified weekday session and enters long after a bullish candle, or short after a bearish candle, when the candle body exceeds a configurable share of its full range. It sets a profit target a chosen multiple of the 14-period ATR from the entry price. The initial protective stop is placed at the prior candle's low for longs or high for shorts, then trailed using the lowest lows or highest highs over a configurable recent-bar lookback. The strategy routes exits through a target-and-stop bracket and clears stored target and stop values when flat.

The source describes a simple momentum-candle framework, while the accompanying prose mentions pullbacks and exhaustion without showing logic for either. Its title and code also refer to different chart intervals, so the intended timeframe is unclear. Although the script contains strategy settings, the document reports no backtest results, drawdowns, or execution assumptions beyond those settings. The stated target and trailing-stop rules do not establish an edge; testing should account for instrument specifics, trading costs, and intrabar order behavior.

Key ideas

• Entries require a directional candle whose body is at least a configurable fraction of its range during the defined session.
• The initial profit target is based on a multiple of ATR measured at entry.
• Initial stops use the previous bar's extreme and then trail recent lows for longs or highs for shorts.
• The rules permit switching between long and short exposure when an opposite qualifying signal appears.
• The document gives no performance evidence, and its title, source, and explanatory prose do not fully agree.

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