Trend Reversal Signals for Volatility-Filtered Options Selling
Summary
This document describes a selective options-selling approach that combines trend, reversal, volatility, and time filters. It proposes selling calls when the longer-term trend is bearish and price is overbought at the upper Bollinger Band, and selling puts when the trend is bullish and price is oversold at the lower band. An ADX filter avoids strong trends, while an ATR condition and a specified market-hours window further restrict entries.
Stops and profit targets are described as ATR multiples. The document gives no performance results; its published backtest configuration uses ETH/USDT futures on hourly bars, while the strategy narrative describes options, and the supplied code places directional futures-style entries. That mismatch limits what the configuration can establish about options performance. The document also flags trend continuation, abrupt market moves, illiquid contracts, correlated indicators, and parameter overfitting as risks, and suggests validation with out-of-sample testing and realistic execution assumptions.
Key ideas
- EMA alignment supplies the broad trend filter for reversal entries.
- RSI extremes and Bollinger Band touches define the proposed call and put signals.
- ADX, ATR, and market hours act as additional trade filters.
- ATR multiples set the described stop and profit distances, but option-specific execution is not demonstrated.
- The backtest configuration uses ETH/USDT futures, so it does not establish options results.
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