PPO Divergence and Price Pivots for Reversal Signals

Summary

The document describes a reversal approach built around the Percentage Price Oscillator and local price pivots. Its stated idea is to look for PPO bottoms alongside relatively low price levels to identify possible bullish reversals, with analogous tops and divergence conditions used for bearish alerts. The source calculates a smoothed PPO from fast and slow exponential averages, detects local oscillator and price extrema, and compares recent pivots over a configurable lookback. It also exposes a long-term divergence option and plots oscillator turning points.

There is a material gap between the explanation and the trading code: entries are triggered by PPO high and low markers, while bullish and bearish divergence conditions are used for alerts rather than those entries. The strategy therefore does not clearly implement the claimed double-bottom price confirmation as its entry rule. The configured BTC/USDT futures test spans only a very short interval and includes no performance results. PPO pivots can be noisy, and the document itself recommends further confirmation, stops, parameter testing, and position risk controls.

Key ideas

• The method computes a smoothed PPO and identifies local oscillator and price extrema.
• The explanation proposes combining PPO bottom patterns with low price levels to seek bullish reversals.
• The source uses PPO high and low markers for entries, while divergence conditions drive alerts.
• The trading code does not clearly apply the claimed double-bottom price confirmation to entries.
• The published backtest is very brief and provides no performance evidence.

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