Directional movement using EMA- Algorithmic strategy

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About the strategy:
Wilder Directional Movement strategy using EMA was published by Zerodha expert advisor. In this, we are using 2 indicators

• Exponential Moving Average (EMA)- The exponential moving average (EMA) is a weighted moving average (WMA) that gives more weighting, or importance, to recent price data than the simple moving average (SMA) does. The EMA responds more quickly to recent price changes than the SMA. The formula for calculating the EMA just involves using a multiplier and starting with the SMA.
  
  
• Welles Wilder's directional movement system-The Welles Wilder's Directional Movement System is an indicator that helps you gauge the strength market’s trend irrespective of whether it is an uptrend or a downtrend.
  

The strategy here involves combining the Directional Movement System (as measured by DI+ and DI-) with 13 and 21 days EMA. The strategy prompts a signal when two conditions satisfy –
1) 13-period exponential moving average (EMA) on closing basis crosses over 21 periods EMA and
2) 14 period of directional indicator positive crosses over 14 periods of directional indicator of negative

Buy:

CROSSOVER(EMA(CLOSE, 13), EMA(CLOSE, 21)) AND CROSSOVER(DIP(14), DIN(14))

Sell:

CROSSOVER(EMA(CLOSE, 21), EMA(CLOSE, 13)) AND CROSSOVER(DIN(14), DIP(14))

Backtesting parameters:

Exchange : Bitmex

Market: BTC

Asset: USD Perpetual contract

Tick Interval: 6h

Backtesting Period: 2nd Jan 2017 to 15th May 2019

Trading Method: Long-Close_short

Leverage: 1x

Backtest results:

Returns: 11.89 %

Market Returns: 784.6 %

Start Value:0.05 BTC

Current Value:0.055942 BTC

Profit Factor: 1.45

Returns vs Market: -772.72

Annualized total return: 4.9 %

Total Trades: 4.9 %

Max Drawdown: -20.16%

Sharpe Ratio: 0.31

You can now play with the parameters in the strategy and optimize the number of trades, returns and buy and sell using the data. Please DM us for the links to backtest.

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Backtest result link
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Comment:

Got the chart wrong....updated the chart for visualization