SMA and MACD Confirmation with Staged Profit Targets

Summary

This strategy combines a three-average trend alignment with MACD crossovers to generate directional trades. A bullish setup requires the short, medium, and longer SMAs to be ordered from highest to lowest, together with a MACD line crossover above its signal line. The bearish setup reverses both conditions. Opposite signals close the existing position before opening a new one. The description also proposes taking partial profit at a first price threshold and closing the remainder at a farther threshold.

The document presents the indicators as complementary trend and momentum signals, while noting that technical indicators can give false signals and fixed profit targets may cut trends short. It recommends testing other filters, adjusting parameters, adding stop losses, and backtesting. The published settings describe a one-hour BTC/USDT futures sample lasting about a month, but no results are shown. In the supplied code, the take-profit levels are recalculated from each bar’s close, rather than anchored to entry price, and no stop loss is implemented, so execution may differ materially from the prose’s risk-control description.

Key ideas

• Bullish trades require aligned rising SMAs and a MACD crossover above its signal line.
• Bearish trades require the inverse SMA ordering and a MACD crossover below its signal line.
• An opposite-direction signal closes the current position before opening the other direction.
• The prose describes partial and final profit targets, but the source recalculates levels from each bar’s close.
• The published futures test settings include no performance results, and the source has no stop loss.

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