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Price-Drop Entries with Fixed Targets and Trailing Stops

Article Strategy library · Author: ChaoZhang

Summary

This strategy opens a long position when a candle's low reaches a specified percentage below its open. It then places a profit target at a fixed percentage above the average entry price and uses a trailing offset to manage the exit. The documented defaults are a 0.98% price-drop threshold, a 1.23% profit target, and a 0.6% trailing stop. Signal markers can be selected for chart display, but they do not affect the trading rules.

The document supplies a daily BTC/USDT futures backtest setup spanning a stated multi-year interval, but gives no performance figures or trade analysis. The rule is a price-triggered long entry and does not include a directional trend filter or an explicit initial stop before the position is managed by its exit order. The notes caution that choppy markets can generate frequent signals and that trailing-stop and threshold settings are sensitive to market conditions. The backtest configuration alone is not evidence that the approach is profitable.

Key ideas

  • A long entry is triggered when the candle low falls to the specified threshold below its open.
  • The default target and trailing offset are fixed percentages of the average entry price.
  • The documented setup is a daily BTC/USDT futures backtest, with no performance results supplied.
  • The rules do not describe a trend filter, and range-bound markets may generate repeated entries.
  • The strategy's behavior depends on threshold and trailing-stop choices.

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This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.