Short-Term Bear Signals from EMA State and Bear Power
Summary
This short-term system combines a stateful EMA-based direction signal with a bear-power measure to time trades. The EMA component uses recent price action relative to an exponential average to assign a bullish or bearish state. Bear power is derived from candle price movement and compared with adjustable buy and sell thresholds. The strategy enters in the direction where both components agree, while an optional reversal setting swaps long and short signals; it closes positions when no combined signal remains.
The accompanying description presents the method as a way to capture short selling during market declines and notes that the parameters can be adjusted. The published test uses BTC/USDT futures on an hourly chart with 15-minute base data for one week, but gives no performance results. The text flags lagging average signals, false triggers in sideways markets, and the absence of a longer-term trend filter. It suggests adding risk limits and filters, but the described implementation does not specify a stop-loss rule.
Key ideas
- A stateful EMA-based signal supplies the directional filter for the strategy.
- A candle-derived bear-power measure contributes a second signal using adjustable thresholds.
- Trades are opened only when the EMA state and bear-power signal agree.
- An optional setting reverses the direction of long and short trades.
- The short backtest window reports no performance results, and the implementation describes no stop-loss rule.
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