Fractional Accumulation Distribution Strategy🔹 INTRODUCTION:
As traders and investors, we often find ourselves searching for ways to maximize our market positioning—trying to capture the best price, manage risk, and adapt to ever-changing volatility. Through years of working with a variety of traders and investors, a common theme emerged: the most successful market participants were those who accumulated positions strategically over time, rather than relying on one-off, rigid entry points. However, even the best of them struggled to consistently time their entries and exits for optimal results.
That's why I created the Fractional Accumulation/Distribution Strategy (FADS)—an adaptable solution designed to dynamically adjust position sizing and entry points based on changing market conditions, enabling both passive and active market participants to optimize their approach.
The FADS trading strategy combines volatility-based trend detection and adaptive position scaling to maximize profitability across varied market conditions. By using the price ranges from higher timeframes, FADS pinpoints extreme demand and supply zones with a high statistical probability of reversal, making it effective in both high and low volatility environments. By applying adjustable threshold settings, users can focus on meaningful price movements to reduce unnecessary trades. Adaptive position scaling further enhances this approach by adjusting position sizes based on entry level distances, allowing for strategic position building that balances risk and reward in uncertain markets. This systematic scaling begins with smaller positions, expanding as the trend solidifies, creating a refined, robust trading experience.
🔹 FEATURES:
Multi-Timeframe Volatility-Based Trend Detection
Accumulation/Distribution Level Filter
Customizable Period for Highest/Lowest Prices Capture
Adjustable Sensitivity & Frequency in Positioning
Broad control settings of Strategy
Adaptive Position Scaling
🔹 SETTINGS:
Volatility : Determines trading range based on market volatility . Highest range value number of periods.
Factor : Adjusts the width of the Accumulation & Distribution bands separately. The Level Filter feature offers customizable triggering bands, allowing users to fine-tune the initiation point for the Accumulation/Distribution sequence. This flexibility enables traders to align entries more precisely with market conditions, setting optimal thresholds for initiating trade chains, whether in accumulating positions during uptrends or distributing in downtrends.
Lowest : Choose the price source (e.g., Close, Low). Number of bars considered when determining the lowest price level. Selecting the checkbox generate a signal when the price crosses below the previous lowest value for calculating the lowest value used for trade signals.
Highest : Choose the price source (e.g., Close, High). Number of bars considered when determining the highest price levels. Selecting the checkbox generate a signal when the price crosses above the previous highest value for calculating the highest value used for trade signals.
Accumulation Spread : Adjusts the buying frequency sensitivity by setting the distance between entries based on personal risk tolerance. Larger values for less frequent buys; smaller values for more frequent buys.
Distribution Spread : Adjusts the selling frequency sensitivity by setting the distance between exits based on reward preference. Larger values for less frequent sells; smaller values for more frequent sells.
Percentage of Capital Allocation : Sets the portion of total capital used for the initial trade in a strategy. It sets the scale for subsequent trades during accumulation phase.
🔹 APPLICATIONS:
❖ Accumulation and Distribution Phases
Early entries are avoided by initiating accumulation only after a trend reversal is confirmed and price breaks below long-term range.
Position sizes are determined by the distance between consecutive trades, smaller distance results in smaller position sizes and vice versa.
Average position cost is reduced by accumulating larger positions at the lower prices, potentially resulting in improved profitability.
Early exits are avoided by initiating distribution only after trend reversal is confirmed and price breaks above long-term range.
The pace of distribution can be tracked by the violet line that represents average positions during distribution phase
❖ Use Cases (Different than default setting input is used for illustration purposes)
If the starting point of accumulation starts too high for the risk preference, Accumulation Level Filter can be lowered by increasing the 🟢 threshold Factor.
If the starting point of distribution is too low for the reward preference, the Distribution Level Filter can be raised by increasing the 🔴 threshold Factor.
In lower timeframes, positions during the accumulation phase could be purchased at higher levels relative to prior entry positions. To optimize for this, consider extending the period used to capture the lowest prices. Similarly, during the distribution phase, increasing the period for identifying higher prices can improve accuracy.
🔹 Strategy Properties:
Adjusting properties within the script settings is recommended to align with specific accounts and trading platforms, ensuring realistic strategy results.
Balance (default): $100,000
Initial Order Size: 1% of the default balance
Commission: 0.1%
Slippage: 5 Ticks
Backtesting: Backtested using TradingView’s built-in strategy testing tool with default commission rates of 0.1% and slippage of 5 ticks. It reflects average market conditions for Apple Inc. (APPL) on 1-hour timeframe
Disclaimers: Commission and slippage varies with market conditions and brokerage policies. The assumed value may not represent all trading environments.
PAST PERFORMANCE DOESN’T GUARANTEE FUTURE RESULTS!
Disclaimer: Please remember that past performance may not be indicative of future results. Due to various factors, including changing market conditions, the strategy may no longer perform as well as in historical backtesting. This post and the script don’t provide any financial advice.
This invite-only script is being published as part of my commitment to developing tools that align with TradingView’s community standards. Access requests will be reviewed carefully after the script passes TradingView's moderation process.
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Central Pivot Point Cross & Retrace Strategy // AlgoFyreThe Central Pivot Point Cross & Retrace Strategy uses pivot points for trend identification and trade entry. It combines accumulation/distribution indicators with pivot point levels to generate signals. The strategy incorporates dynamic position sizing based on a fixed risk amount and allows for both long and short positions with customizable stop-loss levels.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
🔶 ORIGINALITY
🔸Pivot Point-Based Trading
🔸Accumulation/Distribution
🔸Dynamic Position Sizing
🔸Customizable Risk Management
🔶 FUNCTIONALITY
🔸Indicators
🞘 Pivot Points
🞘 Accumulation/Distribution
🔸Conditions
🞘 Long Entry
🞘 Short Entry
🞘 Take Profit
🞘 Stop Loss
🔶 INSTRUCTIONS
🔸Adding the Strategy to the Chart
🔸Configuring the Strategy
🔸Backtesting and Practice
🔸Market Awareness
🔸Visual Customization
🔶 CONCLUSION
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🔶 ORIGINALITY The Central Pivot Point Cross & Retrace Strategy uniquely combines pivot point analysis with accumulation/distribution indicators to identify optimal entry and exit points. It employs dynamic position sizing based on a fixed risk amount, ensuring consistent risk management across trades. This approach allows traders to adapt to varying market conditions by adjusting position sizes according to predefined risk parameters, enhancing both flexibility and control in trading decisions. The strategy's integration of customizable stop-loss levels further refines its risk management capabilities.
🔸Pivot Point-Based Trading This strategy utilizes daily pivot points to identify key support and resistance levels, providing a framework for trend identification and trade entry. The central pivot point serves as the intraday point of balance between buyers and sellers, with the largest amount of trading volume assumed to take place in this area.
🔸Accumulation/Distribution The strategy incorporates the Accumulation/Distribution (A/D) line, an underrated volume-based indicator, to establish the main trend. The A/D line is used in conjunction with a trend based indicator like the 200-period Exponential Moving Average (EMA) to confirm trend direction and strength.
🔸Dynamic Position Sizing Position sizes are calculated dynamically based on a fixed risk amount, allowing traders to maintain consistent risk exposure across trades.
🔸Customizable Risk Management Traders can set flexible risk-reward ratios and adjust stop-loss and take-profit levels, tailoring the strategy to their risk tolerance and market conditions. The strategy recommends taking partial profits at S1 or R1 levels and moving the stop-loss to break-even for remaining positions.
🔶 FUNCTIONALITY The Central Pivot Point Cross & Retrace Strategy leverages pivot points and accumulation/distribution indicators to identify optimal trading opportunities. This strategy is designed to capitalize on price movements around key pivot levels by dynamically adjusting position sizes based on predefined risk parameters. It allows traders to manage risk effectively while taking advantage of both long and short positions.
🔸Indicators 🞘 Pivot Points: Calculates daily pivot points (PP, R1, R2, S1, S2) to identify key support and resistance levels. The central pivot point is crucial for determining market bias and entry points.
🞘 Accumulation/Distribution: Uses the A/D line and with a trend based indicator like the 200 EMA to determine market direction and trend strength. This combination helps eliminate noise and provides more reliable trend signals. We recommend using the Adaptive MAs (Hurst, CVaR, Fractal) // AlgoFyre , but any moving average could be used.
🔸Conditions 🞘 Long Entry: Initiates a long position when the price crosses above the central pivot point (PP), retraces back to it and the A/D line is above its 200 EMA, indicating an uptrend. A limit entry order is set at the PP for entering the long trade.
🞘 Short Entry: Initiates a short position when the price crosses below the central pivot point (PP), retraces back to it and the A/D line is below its 200 EMA, indicating a downtrend. A limit entry order is set at the PP for entering the short trade.
🞘 Take Profit: 50% of the position is closed as profit when R1 for Longs and S1 for Shorts is reached. The position is fully closed when R2 for Longs and S2 for Shorts is reached.
🞘 Stop Loss: Stop loss is set via strategy settings. When the first 50% take profit for both long and shorts is taken, stop loss for both will be moved to break-even/entry.
🔶 INSTRUCTIONS
The Central Pivot Point Cross & Retrace Strategy can be set up by adding it to your TradingView chart and configuring parameters such as the accumulation/distribution source, stop-loss percentage, and risk management settings. This strategy is designed to capitalize on price movements around key pivot levels by dynamically adjusting position sizes based on predefined risk parameters. Enhance the accuracy of signals by combining this strategy with additional indicators like trend-following or momentum-based tools. Adjust settings to better manage risk and optimize entry and exit points.
🔸Adding the Strategy to the Chart Go to your TradingView chart.
Click on the "Pine Editor" button at the bottom of the chart.
Copy and paste the strategy code into the Pine Editor.
Click "Add to Chart" to apply the strategy.
Add the technical indicator "Accumulation/Distribution" to the chart.
Add the trend indicator " Adaptive MAs (Hurst, CVaR, Fractal) // AlgoFyre " or any other MA to the chart and move it to the "Accumulation/Distribution" pane.
Set the source of your trend indicator to "Accumulation/Distribution".
🔸Configuring the Strategy Open the strategy settings by clicking on the gear icon next to its name on the chart.
Accumulation/Distribution Source: Select the source for the accumulation/distribution indicator.
Accumulation/Distribution EMA Source: Select the source for the trend indicator.
Stop Loss Percentage: Set the stop loss distance from the pivot point as a percentage.
Risk Amount: Define the fixed risk amount for position sizing.
Base Order Size: Set the base order size for position calculations.
Number of Positions: Specify the maximum number of positions allowed.
Time Frame: Adjust the time frame based on the currency pair or asset being traded (e.g., 15-minute for EUR/USD, 30-minute for GBP/USD).
🔸Backtesting and Practice Backtest the strategy on historical data to understand how it performs in various market environments.
Practice using the strategy on a demo account before implementing it in live trading.
Test different time frames and asset pairs to find the most suitable combinations.
🔸Market Awareness Keep an eye on market news and events that might cause extreme price movements. The strategy reacts to price data and might not account for news-driven events that can cause large deviations.
Remember that this strategy is not recommended for stocks due to the A/D line's inability to account for gaps in its calculation.
🔸Visual Customization Visualization Settings: Customize the display of entry price, take profit, and stop loss levels.
Color Settings: Switch to the AlgoFyre theme or set custom colors for bullish, bearish, and neutral states.
Table Settings: Enable or disable the information table and adjust its position.
🔶 CONCLUSION
The Central Pivot Point Cross & Retrace Strategy provides a robust framework for capitalizing on price movements around key pivot levels by combining pivot point analysis with accumulation/distribution indicators. This strategy leverages pivot point crossovers to identify entry points and utilizes the A/D line crossover with its 200 EMA for trend confirmation, ensuring trades align with prevailing market conditions. By incorporating dynamic position sizing based on a fixed risk amount, traders can effectively manage risk and adapt to varying market conditions. The strategy's focus on trading around the central pivot point and its customizable stop-loss and take-profit levels further enhance its risk management capabilities, making it a versatile tool for both trending and ranging markets. With its strategic blend of technical indicators and risk management, the Central Pivot Point Cross & Retrace Strategy offers traders a comprehensive approach to optimizing trade execution and maximizing potential returns across various currency pairs and commodities.
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