Days Trader 1.0 — Strategy by tarzan

dayofweek DAY week month TIME trading system LONG short

dayofweek day week month time trading system long short

Simple program to look for day of week or day of month patterns in chart data.

All original work by Boffin Hollow Lab

Author: Tarzan

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//@version=2
strategy("Days Trader 1.0", "title = Days Trader", overlay=true)

// 2016 Boffin Hollow Lab
// author: Tarzan

//this program allows you to trade on specific days of the week to test for patterns
//monday =1    8 =special purpose

// short = 1 long = 0
// monday is the lightest bar


c = navy

//(dayofmonth == 1 )       ? color(black, 54) :

bgColor = (dayofweek == monday)    ? color(c, 94) :
          (dayofweek == tuesday)   ? color(c, 90) :
          (dayofweek == wednesday) ? color(c, 86) :
          (dayofweek == thursday)  ? color(c, 84) :
          (dayofweek == friday)    ? color(c, 82) : na
          
          
bgcolor(color = bgColor)

dom = input(title = "Day of month if nz", defval = 0)
cmday = input(0)
gapp = input(2)
longorshort = input(title = "0 for short 1 for long", defval=0)
openday = input(title ="trade open day of week", defval=1)
//oday = input (float)
closeday = input (title = "trade close day of week", defval=2)

oday = (openday == 3) ? monday : 
       (openday == 4) ? tuesday :
       (openday == 5) ? wednesday : 
       (openday == 1) ? thursday : 
       (openday == 7) ? friday : 
       (openday == 6) ? saturday : 
       (openday == 2) ? sunday : 
       (openday == 8) ? abs(second(time)/10) : na
       
cday = (closeday == 3) ? monday : 
       (closeday == 4) ? tuesday :
       (closeday == 5) ? wednesday : 
       (closeday == 6) ? thursday : 
       (closeday == 7) ? friday : 
       (closeday == 1) ? saturday : 
       (closeday == 2) ? sunday : 
       (closeday == 8) ? (oday + 1) : na
       
      


if (longorshort == 0 and dom == 0)
    strategy.entry("tradez", strategy.long, when = (dayofweek == oday))
    
if (longorshort == 1 and dom == 0)
    strategy.entry("tradez", strategy.short, when = (dayofweek == oday))
    
if (longorshort == 2 and dom == 0)
    strategy.entry("tradez", strategy.long, when = (dayofweek[3] == (oday)))  
    
if (longorshort == 2 and dom == 0)
    strategy.entry("tradez", strategy.short, when = (dayofweek[3] == (oday+gapp)))    
   
strategy.close_all(when = (dayofweek == cday and dom == 0 ))

//if (dayofweek == cday and dom == 0 )
  // strategy.order("tradez", strategy.short, 1, limit = na, stop = na)
  
// strategy.order("tradez", strategy.short, 1, comment = "stratorder", when =  dayofweek == cday and dom == 0 and longorshort == 0)

// strategy.order("tradez", strategy.long, 1, comment = "stratorder", when =  dayofweek == cday and dom == 0 and longorshort == 1)

if (longorshort == 0 and dom != 0)
    strategy.entry("tradez", strategy.long, when = (dayofmonth == dom ))
    
if (longorshort == 1 and dom != 0)
    strategy.entry("tradez", strategy.short, when = (dayofmonth == dom ))
   

strategy.close("tradez", when = (dayofmonth == cmday and dom != 0 ))