Strategy 003: Oversold Long Entries with Multi-Indicator Filters
Summary
Strategy 003 is a long-only cryptocurrency trading system on a five-minute timeframe. Its entry rule combines several oversold and trend conditions: low RSI and money flow, a strongly negative inverse Fisher transform of RSI, price below a simple moving average, and confirmation from either the longer exponential averages or a short EMA crossover. It also checks fast stochastic ordering. This stacks momentum, trend, and oscillator filters rather than relying on one indicator alone.
The exit signal occurs when Parabolic SAR is above price while the transformed RSI is positive. The configuration also defines a stepped return-on-investment schedule, a 10% stop loss, and no active trailing stop; settings may be overridden by external configuration. The document provides source logic but no market-specific test period or performance evidence. Because the entry requires many simultaneous conditions and the exit combines a separate trend signal with momentum, its behavior depends on indicator definitions, candle data, and execution assumptions. Backtesting and validation would be needed before drawing conclusions about profitability.
Key ideas
- The strategy seeks long entries when several momentum and money-flow measures indicate oversold conditions.
- It combines a price-versus-SMA condition with either longer-term EMA alignment or a short EMA crossover.
- Fast stochastic values provide an additional entry filter.
- The exit signal combines Parabolic SAR above price with a positive inverse Fisher RSI.
- The configuration includes stepped ROI targets and a fixed stop loss, but no test results are supplied.
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# Strategy003
# Strategy003
Strategy 003
author@: Gerald Lonlas
github@: https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade-strategies
How to use it?
> python3 ./freqtrade/main.py -s Strategy003
## Source (GPL-3.0)
```python
# --- Do not remove these libs ---
from freqtrade.strategy import IStrategy
from typing import Dict, List
from functools import reduce
from pandas import DataFrame
# --------------------------------
import talib.abstract as ta
import freqtrade.vendor.qtpylib.indicators as qtpylib
import numpy # noqa
class Strategy003(IStrategy):
"""
Strategy 003
author@: Gerald Lonlas
github@: https://github.com/freqtrade/freqtrade-strategies
How to use it?
> python3 ./freqtrade/main.py -s Strategy003
"""
INTERFACE_VERSION: int = 3
# Minimal ROI designed for the strategy.
# This attribute will be overridden if the config file contains "minimal_roi"
minimal_roi = {
"60": 0.01,
"30": 0.03,
"20": 0.04,
"0": 0.05
}
# Optimal stoploss designed for the strategy
# This attribute will be overridden if the config file contains "stoploss"
stoploss = -0.10
# Optimal timeframe for the strategy
timeframe = '5m'
# trailing stoploss
trailing_stop = False
trailing_stop_positive = 0.01
trailing_stop_positive_offset = 0.02
# run "populate_indicators" only for new candle
process_only_new_candles = True
# Experimental settings (configuration will overide these if set)
use_exit_signal = True
exit_profit_only = True
ignore_roi_if_entry_signal = False
# Optional order type mapping
order_types = {
'entry': 'limit',
'exit': 'limit',
'stoploss': 'market',
'stoploss_on_exchange': False
}
def informative_pairs(self):
"""
Define additional, informative pair/interval combinations to be cached from the exchange.
These pair/interval combinations are non-tradeable, unless they are part
of the whitelist as well.
For more information, please consult the documentation
:return: List of tuples in the format (pair, interval)
Sample: return [("ETH/USDT", "5m"),
("BTC/USDT", "15m"),
]
"""
return []
def populate_indicators(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
"""
Adds several different TA indicators to the given DataFrame
Performance Note: For the best performance be frugal on the number of indicators
you are using. Let uncomment only the indicator you are using in your strategies
or your hyperopt configuration, otherwise you will waste your memory and CPU usage.
"""
# MFI
dataframe['mfi'] = ta.MFI(dataframe)
# Stoch fast
stoch_fast = ta.STOCHF(dataframe)
dataframe['fastd'] = stoch_fast['fastd']
dataframe['fastk'] = stoch_fast['fastk']
# RSI
dataframe['rsi'] = ta.RSI(dataframe)
# Inverse Fisher transform on RSI, values [-1.0, 1.0] (https://goo.gl/2JGGoy)
rsi = 0.1 * (dataframe['rsi'] - 50)
dataframe['fisher_rsi'] = (numpy.exp(2 * rsi) - 1) / (numpy.exp(2 * rsi) + 1)
# Bollinger bands
bollinger = qtpylib.bollinger_bands(qtpylib.typical_price(dataframe), window=20, stds=2)
dataframe['bb_lowerband'] = bollinger['lower']
# EMA - Exponential Moving Average
dataframe['ema5'] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=5)
dataframe['ema10'] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=10)
dataframe['ema50'] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=50)
dataframe['ema100'] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=100)
# SAR Parabol
dataframe['sar'] = ta.SAR(dataframe)
# SMA - Simple Moving Average
dataframe['sma'] = ta.SMA(dataframe, timeperiod=40)
return dataframe
def populate_entry_trend(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
"""
Based on TA indicators, populates the buy signal for the given dataframe
:param dataframe: DataFrame
:return: DataFrame with buy column
"""
dataframe.loc[
(
(dataframe['rsi'] < 28) &
(dataframe['rsi'] > 0) &
(dataframe['close'] < dataframe['sma']) &
(dataframe['fisher_rsi'] < -0.94) &
(dataframe['mfi'] < 16.0) &
(
(dataframe['ema50'] > dataframe['ema100']) |
(qtpylib.crossed_above(dataframe['ema5'], dataframe['ema10']))
) &
(dataframe['fastd'] > dataframe['fastk']) &
(dataframe['fastd'] > 0)
),
'enter_long'] = 1
return dataframe
def populate_exit_trend(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
"""
Based on TA indicators, populates the sell signal for the given dataframe
:param dataframe: DataFrame
:return: DataFrame with buy column
"""
dataframe.loc[
(
(dataframe['sar'] > dataframe['close']) &
(dataframe['fisher_rsi'] > 0.3)
),
'exit_long'] = 1
return dataframe
```Shown in full with attribution under the source's licence. Licence: GPL-3.0
This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.