Percentage Pullback Reversal Strategy Using Recent Price Extremes

Summary

This strategy uses a percentage distance from recent highs and lows to identify possible reversals, aiming to avoid relying on fixed price-point thresholds that may behave differently as an instrument’s price changes. It does not first classify the market as trending or ranging. Instead, its rules compare the current price with the lowest low and highest high over a lookback window.

A long position opens when price rises above the recent low by the specified percentage; a short opens when it falls below the recent high by that amount. Positions close when price crosses the midpoint between the lookback high and low in the adverse direction. The document includes backtest performance images but no readable numerical results or details sufficient to assess robustness. It suggests adding a volatility factor, adapting the lookback period, or testing fixed-point thresholds. These are proposed refinements, not validated improvements; the strategy’s effectiveness and suitable settings remain uncertain.

Key ideas

• The method triggers entries when price moves a percentage distance away from a recent extreme.
• Long and short positions exit at the midpoint of the recent high-low range when price moves against them.
• The rules do not require classifying market conditions as trending or ranging.
• The document proposes volatility adjustment, adaptive lookbacks, and fixed-point thresholds as possible refinements.
• Backtest images are included, but their numerical results and robustness cannot be assessed from the text.

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