Using Monthly and Yearly Tables to Review Strategy Returns

Summary

The document explains how custom tables in TradingView can display strategy performance by month and year. This supplements the platform’s standard output and can help traders spot periods of unusually strong or weak performance for closer review. The included Pine Script strategy uses pivot highs and lows to generate long and short entries; the table concept is intended to be added to a trader’s own strategy for returns analysis.

The document provides a one-year BTC/USDT futures backtest configuration, but reports no performance figures or evidence that the approach is profitable. Its central lesson is about presenting returns in a useful time-based format, rather than validating the example entry strategy. Monthly and yearly summaries can reveal variation across periods, but do not explain its causes or establish future performance. The author cautions that historical backtests may not reflect changing market conditions and that the script is not financial advice.

Key ideas

• Custom TradingView tables can show strategy returns by month and year.
• Time-based returns can help identify periods for further performance analysis.
• The sample strategy enters positions based on detected pivot highs and lows.
• The published configuration specifies a BTC/USDT futures backtest but gives no return results.
• Historical strategy performance may not persist under changed market conditions.

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