TradeShields Strategy Builder🛡 WHAT IS TRADESHIELDS?
This no-code strategy builder is designed for traders on TradingView, offering an intuitive platform to create, backtest, and automate trading strategies. While identifying signals is often straightforward, the real challenge in trading lies in managing risk and knowing when not to trade. It equips users with advanced tools to address this challenge, promoting disciplined decision-making and structured trading practices.
This is not just a collection of indicators but a comprehensive toolkit that helps identify high-quality opportunities while placing risk management at the core of every strategy. By integrating customizable filters, robust controls, and automation capabilities, it empowers traders to align their strategies with their unique objectives and risk tolerance.
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🛡 THE GOAL: SHIELD YOUR STRATEGY
The mission is simple: to shield your strategy from bad trades . Whether you're a seasoned trader or just starting, the hardest part of trading isn’t finding signals—it’s avoiding trades that can harm your account. This framework prioritizes quality over quantity , helping filter out suboptimal setups and encouraging disciplined execution.
With tools to manage risk, avoid overtrading, and adapt to changing market conditions, it protects your strategy against impulsive decisions and market volatility.
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🛡 HOW TO USE IT
1. Apply Higher Timeframe Filters
Begin by analyzing broader market trends using tools like the 200 EMA, Ichimoku Cloud, or Supertrend on higher timeframes (e.g., daily or 4-hour charts).
- Example: Ensure the price is above the 200 EMA on the daily chart for long trades or below it for short trades.
2. Identify the Appropriate Entry Signal
Choose an entry signal that aligns with your model and the asset you're trading. Options include:
Supertrend changes for trend reversals.
Bollinger Band touches for mean-reversion trades.
RSI strength/weakness for overbought or oversold conditions.
Breakouts of key levels (e.g., daily or weekly highs/lows) for momentum trades.
MACD and TSI flips.
3. Determine Take-Profit and Stop-Loss Levels
Set clear exit strategies to protect your capital and lock in profits:
Use single, dual, or triple take-profit levels based on percentages or price levels.
Choose a stop-loss type, such as fixed percentage, ATR-based, or trailing stops.
Optionally, set breakeven adjustments after hitting your first take-profit target.
4. Apply Risk Management Filters
Incorporate risk controls to ensure disciplined execution:
Limit the number of trades per day, week, or month to avoid overtrading.
Use time-based filters to trade during specific sessions or custom windows.
Avoid trading around high-impact news events with region-specific filters.
5. Automate and Execute
Leverage the advanced automation features to streamline execution. Alerts are tailored specifically for each supported platform, ensuring seamless integration with tools like PineConnector, 3Commas, Zapier, and more.
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🛡 CORE FOCUS: RISK MANAGEMENT, AUTOMATION, AND DISCIPLINED TRADING
This builder emphasizes quality over quantity, encouraging traders to approach markets with structure and control. Its innovative tools for risk management and automation help optimize performance while reducing effort, fostering consistency and long-term success.
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🛡 KEY FEATURES
General Settings
Theme Customization : Light and dark themes for a tailored interface.
Timezone Adjustment : Align session times and news schedules with your local timezone.
Position Sizing : Define lot sizes to manage risk effectively.
Directional Control : Choose between long-only, short-only, or both directions for trading.
Time Filters
Day-of-Week Selection : Enable or disable trading on specific days.
Session-Based Trading : Restrict trades to major market sessions (Asia, London, New York) or custom windows.
Custom Time Windows : Precisely control the timeframes for trade execution.
Risk Management Tools
Trade Limits : Maximum trades per day, week, or month to avoid overtrading.
Automatic Trade Closures : End-of-session, end-of-day, or end-of-week options.
Duration-Based Filters : Close trades if take-profit isn’t reached within a set timeframe or if they remain unprofitable beyond a specific duration.
Stop-Loss and Take-Profit Options : Fixed percentage or ATR-based stop-losses, single/dual/triple take-profit levels, and breakeven stop adjustments.
Economic News Filters
Region-Specific Filters : Exclude trades around major news events in regions like the USA, UK, Europe, Asia, or Oceania.
News Avoidance Windows : Pause trades before and after high-impact events or automatically close trades ahead of scheduled news releases.
Higher Timeframe Filters
Multi-Timeframe Tools : Leverage EMAs, Supertrend, or Ichimoku Cloud on higher timeframes (Daily, 4-hour, etc.) for trend alignment.
Chart Timeframe Filters
Precision Filtering : Apply EMA or ADX-based conditions to refine trade setups on current chart timeframes.
Entry Signals
Customizable Options : Choose from signals like Supertrend, Bollinger Bands, RSI, MACD, Ichimoku Cloud, or EMA pullbacks.
Indicator Parameter Overrides : Fine-tune default settings for specific signals.
Exit Settings
Flexible Take-Profit Targets : Single, dual, or triple targets. Exit at significant levels like daily/weekly highs or lows.
Stop-Loss Variability : Fixed, ATR-based, or trailing stop-loss options.
Alerts and Automation
Third-Party Integrations : Seamlessly connect with platforms like PineConnector, 3Commas, Zapier, and Capitalise.ai.
Precision-Formatted Alerts : Alerts are tailored specifically for each platform, ensuring seamless execution. For example:
- PineConnector alerts include risk-per-trade parameters.
- 3Commas alerts contain bot-specific configurations.
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🛡 PUBLISHED CHART SETTINGS: 15m COMEX:GC1!
Time Filters : Trades are enabled from Tuesday to Friday, as Mondays often lack sufficient data coming off the weekend, and weekends are excluded due to market closures. Custom time sessions are turned off by default, allowing trades throughout the day.
Risk Filters : Risk is tightly controlled by limiting trades to a maximum of 2 per day and enabling a mechanism to close trades if they remain open too long and are unprofitable. Weekly trade closures ensure that no positions are carried over unnecessarily.
Economic News Filters : By default, trades are allowed during economic news periods, giving traders flexibility to decide how to handle volatility manually. It is recommended to enable these filters if you are creating strategies on lower timeframes.
Higher Timeframe Filters : The setup incorporates confluence from higher timeframe indicators. For example, the 200 EMA on the daily timeframe is used to establish trend direction, while the Ichimoku cloud on the 30-minute timeframe adds additional confirmation.
Entry Signals : The strategy triggers trades based on changes in the Supertrend indicator.
Exit Settings : Trades are configured to take partial profits at three levels (1%, 2%, and 3%) and use a fixed stop loss of 2%. Stops are moved to breakeven after reaching the first take profit level.
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🛡 WHY CHOOSE THIS STRATEGY BUILDER?
This tool transforms trading from reactive to proactive, focusing on risk management and automation as the foundation of every strategy. By helping users avoid unnecessary trades, implement robust controls, and automate execution, it fosters disciplined trading.
Toolkit
RunRox - Backtesting System (SM)RunRox - Backtesting System (SM) is designed for flexible and comprehensive testing of trading strategies, closely integrated with our RunRox - Signals Master indicator. This combination enhances your ability to refine strategies efficiently, providing you with insights to adapt and optimize your trading tactics seamlessly.
The Backtesting System (SM) excels in pinpointing the optimal settings for the RunRox - Signals Master indicator, efficiently highlighting the most effective configurations.
Capabilities of the Backtesting System (SM)
Optimal Settings Determination: Identifies the best configurations for the Signals Master indicator to enhance its effectiveness.
Timeframe-Specific Strategy Testing: Allows strategies to be tested over specific historical time periods to assess their viability.
Customizable Initial Conditions: Enables setting of initial deposit, risk per trade, and commission rates to mirror real-world trading conditions.
Flexible Money Management: Provides options to set take profits and stop losses, optimizing potential returns and risk management.
Intuitive Dashboard: Features a user-friendly dashboard that visually displays all pertinent information, making it easy to analyze and adjust strategies.
Trading Flexibility Across Three Modes:
Dual-Direction Trading: Engage in both buying and selling with this mode. Our dashboard optimizes and identifies the best settings for trading in two directions, streamlining the process to maximize effectiveness for both buy and sell orders.
Buy-Only Mode: Tailored for traders focusing exclusively on purchasing assets. In this mode, our backtester pinpoints the most advantageous sensitivity, speed reaction, and filter settings specifically for buying. Optimal settings in this mode may differ from those used in dual-direction trading, providing a customized approach to single-direction strategies.
Sell-Only Mode: Perfect for strategies primarily based on selling. This setting allows you to discover the ideal configurations for asset sales, which can be particularly useful if you are looking for optimal exit points in long-term transactions or under specific market conditions.
Here's an example of how profits can differ on the same asset when trading using two distinct strategies: exclusively buying or trading in both directions.
Above in the image, you can see how one-directional trading influences the results of backtests on historical data. While this does not guarantee future outcomes, it provides insight into how the strategy's performance can vary with different trading directions.
As you can also see from the image, one-directional trading has affected the optimal combination of settings for Sensitivity, Speed Reaction, and Filters.
Stop Loss and Take Profit
Our backtesting system, as you might have gathered, includes flexible settings for take profits and stop losses. Here are the main features:
Multiple Take Profits: Ability to set from 1 to 4 take profit levels.
Fixed Percentage: Option to assign a fixed percentage for each take profit.
Trade Proportion Fixation: Ability to set a fixed size from the trade for securing profits.
Stop Loss Installation: Option to establish a stop loss.
Break-Even Stop Loss: Ability to move the stop loss to a break-even point upon reaching a specified take profit level.
These settings offer extensive flexibility and can be customized according to your preferences and trading style. They are suitable for both novice and professional traders looking to test their trading strategies on historical data.
As illustrated in the image above, we have implemented money management by setting fixed take profits and stop losses. Utilizing money management has improved indicators such as profit, maximum drawdown, and profit factor, turning even historically unprofitable strategies into profitable ones. Although this does not guarantee future results, it serves as a valuable tool for understanding the effectiveness of money management.
Additionally, as you can see, the optimal settings for Signals Master have been adjusted, highlighting the best configurations for the most favorable outcomes.
Disclaimer:
Historical data is not indicative of future results. All indicators and strategies provided by RunRox are intended for integration with traders' strategies and should be used as tools for analysis rather than standalone solutions. Traders should use their own discretion and understand that all trading involves risk.
LuxAlgo - Backtester (S&O)The S&O Backtester is an innovative strategy script that encompasses features + optimization methods from our Signals & Overlays™ toolkit and combines them into one easy-to-use script for backtesting the most detailed trading strategies possible.
Our Signals & Overlays™ toolkit is notorious for its signal optimization methods such as the 'Optimal Sensitivity' displayed in its dashboard which provides optimization backtesting of the Sensitivity parameter for the Confirmation & Contrarian Signals.
This strategy script allows even more detailed & precise backtests than anything available previously in the Signals & Overlays™ toolkit; including External Source inputs allowing users to use any indicator including our other paid toolkits for take profit & stop loss customization to develop strategies, along with 10+ pre-built filters directly Signals & Overlays™' features.
🔶 Features
Full Sensitivity optimization within the dashboard to find the Best Win rates or Best Profits.
Counter Trade Mode to reverse signals in undesirable market conditions (may introduce higher drawdowns)
Built-in filters for Confirmation Signals w/ Indicator Overlays from Signals & Overlays™.
Built-in Confirmation exit points are available within the settings & on by default.
External Source Input to filter signals or set custom Take Profits & Stop Losses.
Optimization Matrix dashboard option showing all possible permutations of Sensitivity.
Option to Maximize for Winrate or Best Profit.
🔶 Settings
Sensitivity signal optimizations for the Confirmation Signals algorithm
Buy & Sell conditions filters with Indicator Overlays & External Source
Take Profit exit signals option
External Source for Take Profit & Stop Loss
Sensitivity ranges
Backtest window default at 2,000 bars
External source
Dashboard locations
🔶 Usage
Backtests are not necessarily indicative of future results, although a trader may want to use a strategy script to have a deeper understanding of how their strategy responds to varying market conditions, or to use as a tool for identifying possible flaws in a strategy that could potentially be indicative of good or bad performance in the future.
A strategy script can also be useful in terms of it's ability to generate more complete & configurable alerts, giving users the option to integrate with external processes.
In the chart below we are using default settings and built-in optimization parameters to generate the highest win rate.
Results like the above will vary & finding a strategy with a high win rate does not necessarily mean it will persist into the future, however, some indications of a well-optimized strategy are:
A high number of closed trades (100+) with a consistently green equity curve
An equity curve that outperforms buy & hold
A low % max drawdown compared to the Net Profit %.
Profit factor around 1.5 or above
In the chart below we are using the Trend Catcher feature from Signals & Overlays™ as a filter for standard Confirmation Signals + exits on a higher timeframe.
By filtering bullish signals only when the Trend Catcher is bullish, as well as bearish signals for when the Trend Catcher is bearish, we have a highly profitable strategy created directly from our flagship features.
While the Signals & Overlays features being used as built-in filters can generate interesting backtests, the provided External Sources can allow for even more creativity when creating strategies. This feature allows you to use many indicators from TradingView as filters or to trigger take-profit/stop-loss events, even if they aren't from LuxAlgo.
The chart below shows the HyperWave Oscillator from our Oscillator Matrix™ being used for take-profit exit conditions, exiting a long position on a profit when crossing 80, and exiting a short position when crossing 20.
🔶 Counter Trade Mode
Our thesis has always firmly remained to use Confirmation Signals within Signals & Overlays™ as a supportive tool to find trends & use as extra confirmation within strategies.
We included the counter-trade mode as a logical way to use the Confirmation signals as direct entries for longs & shorts within more contrarian trading strategies. Many traders can relate to using a trend-following indicator and having the market not respect its conditions for entries.
This mode directly benefits a trader who is aware that market conditions are generally not-so-perfect trends all the time. Acknowledging this, allows the user to use this to their advantage by introducing countertrend following conditions as direct entries, which tend to perform very well in ranging markets.
The big downfall of using counter-trade mode is the potential for very large max-drawdowns during trending market conditions. We suggest for making a strategy to consider introducing stop-loss conditions that can efficiently minimize max-drawdowns during the process of backtesting your creations.
Sensitivity Optimization
Within the Signals & Overlays™ toolkit, we allow users to adjust the Confirmation Signals with a Sensitivity parameter.
We believe the Sensitivity paramter is the most realistic way to generate the most actionable Confirmation Signals that can navigate various market conditions, and the Confirmation Signals algorithm was designed specifically with this in mind.
This script takes this parameter and backtests it internally to generate the most profitable value to display on the dashboard located in the top right of the chart, as well as an optimization table if users enable it to visualize it's backtesting.
In the image below, we can see the optimization table showing permutations of settings within the user-selected Sensitivity range.
The suggested best setting is given at the current time for the backtesting window that's customizable within the indicator. Optimized settings for technical indicators are not indicative of future results and the best settings are highly likely / guaranteed to change over time.
Optimizing signal settings has become a popular activity amongst technical analysts, however, the real-time beneficial applications of optimizing settings are limited & best described as complicated (even with forward testing).
🔶 Strategy Properties (Important)
We strongly recommend all users to ensure they adjust the Properties within the script settings to be in line with their accounts & trading platforms of choice to ensure results from strategies built are realistic.
🔶 How to access
You can see the Author's Instructions below to learn how to get access on our website.
Trading Associates slot saverIncludes:
Pivot Reversal Strategy (Source code: pastebin.com )
Donchian Channels
Bollinger Bands
6 MAs with crossing indicator
4 EMAs
Candlestick Patterns identified by repo32
Support and Resistance by RicardoSantos (I just changed it a bit)
Weekly and Daily Pivot Points
Ichimoku Cloud with my parameters
VWAP
You can save some slots with this indicator on Tradingview. Take advantage of it.
The pivot reversal strategy isn't bad on higher timeframes, bot it if you want to.
Cheers
