Fibonacci Trailing Stop [LuxAlgo]

12 Sep 2023

The Fibonacci Trailing Stop indicator creates a Trailing Stop, based on Fibonacci levels which are retrieved from the latest swing high & low. This provides a Trailing Stop-line.

🔶 USAGE



The Fibonacci Trailing Stop can indicate the current trend direction.



Shadows can also provide potential support/resistance areas.



Users can also display Fibonacci retracements.

🔶 CONCEPTS

🔹 Basic principles

There are 2 basic principles:

1. Every new swing will create or update a new Fibonacci pattern, potentially changing the Fibonacci Trailing Stop (FTS)
   
2. The Trend depends on whether the FTS is crossed/breached, the trigger is a chosen 'level/trigger'
       (settings -> Fibonacci Trailing Stop -> Level/Trigger)
   

• In an  uptrend, these levels will be placed at the bottom half of the pattern.
  
• In a downtrend, these levels will be placed at the top half of the pattern.
  

Once a trend is established, the Trailing Stop will only update in the direction of the trend:

• Only higher when in an uptrend
  
• Only lower when in a downtrend
  

If a Trailing Stop line is broken, the trend shifts to the other direction

The FTS line is accompanied by a secondary line (colour-filled), created by smaller swings (half of L/R, rounded to above)

EXAMPLES

• New bullish Trend/pattern
• Updating later on


• Bearish Trend -> breached -> New bullish Trend -> Trend is updated later on, and is breached at the end:


• Trend broken -> new Trend/direction:


• Bearish Trend -> breached -> New bullish Trend -> breached -> New bearish Trend (Here you see the latest cross of the bullish trend)


🔹 Shadows & latest Fibonacci

The indicator contains the option to show:

• Latest Fibonacci
• Shadows: previous Fibonacci Levels (will only appear after a 1 bar delay)
  

Shadows can be very useful to provide support/resistance areas, especially from large shadow-blocks.

When shadows are enabled, the color fill of Latest Fibonacci and FTS will be removed, this to provide less clutter:





🔶 SETTINGS

🔹 Swings

• L: set left of pivothigh/pivotlow
• R: set right of pivothigh/pivotlow
• Swing labels: show labels of swings (updated in the same direction)
  

🔹 Fibonacci Trailing Stop

• Level - Toggle - Custom value
  

   • Choose pré-set levels [[]-0.5, -0.382, -0.236 , 0, 0.236, 0.382, 0.5, 0.618[]]
   • Choose custom level -> Toggle enabled and adjust the number at the right

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  Trigger: set trigger for breaching the FTS, close or wick (high in downtrend/low in uptrend)
  

🔹 Fibonacci

• Latest Fibonacci: show Latest Fibonacci
• Shadows: show Shadows