Trading Strategy Concept
Conclusion
This trading strategy is a simple trend continuation strategy which identifies trends, pullback areas, as well as signals indicating the resumption of the momentum in the direction of the trend. To do this, it uses two custom technical indicators, the Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator, and the classic RSI indicator.
Heiken Ashi Smoothed Indicator
Stop Loss
- Set the stop loss on the support below the entry candle.
Price is then allowed to pullback towards the Heiken Ashi Smoothed bars, then the trend continuation is confirmed based on the RSI line.
Buy Trade Setup
Exit
- Close the trade as soon as price action shows signs of a bullish reversal.
The first component of this strategy is the Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator, which is used mainly as a trend direction filter. Trends are identified based on the color of the Heiken Ashi Smoothed bars.
Entry
- Identify a downtrend market with price action generally below the magenta Heiken Ashi Smoothed bars.
- The RSI line should generally be below 50.
- Wait for price action to pullback towards the Heiken Ashi Smoothed bars causing the RSI line to spike towards 50.
- Enter a sell order on a confluence of a bearish price action and an RSI line dropping back below 45.
This trading strategy is a simple trend continuation trading strategy that makes use of technical indicators that can effectively identify trend direction. These indicators create indications of trend direction which are less susceptible to market noise, and trade entries that are confirmed by a more reliable signal.
Many traders also add levels 45, 50, and 55 to help them identify trending markets. The RSI line tends to stay above 50 during an uptrend, with 45 as its support. Inversely, it also tends to stay below 50 during a downtrend, with 55 as its resistance.
Most trend continuation strategies use trend following indicators which are mostly based on moving average lines to identify trend direction. This strategy takes a slightly different route because it uses an oscillator type of indicator to confirm the trend direction, as well as the trend continuation signal.
The Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator is also derived from the averages just as with the Heiken Ashi Candlesticks. However, what it does is that it creates a moving average based on an underlying computation of the average bars. It then plots bars that characteristically behave much like moving average lines. Since it plots bars based on the open, high, low, and close of the Heiken Ashi Candlesticks, it creates bars that have longer bodies whenever momentum is strengthening. The wicks of the bars also lengthen in the direction of the trend, whenever the trend is gaining momentum. On the other hand, the wicks opposite the direction of the trend also lengthen whenever the trend is weakening.
Exit
- Close the trade as soon as price action shows signs of a bearish reversal.
The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum technical indicator which identifies trends, momentum, as well as overbought or oversold market conditions, as an oscillator type of indicator. It plots a line which oscillates within the range of zero to 100.
The Heiken Ashi Smoothed indicator is a great tool for identifying trend direction, as well as filtering out trades that does not agree with the trend direction. Color changes of the bars can also be considered as trend reversal signals which tend to be more smoothened out.
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