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Optimize Your Trading Strategy With The Right Timeframe
One of the most critical aspects of building a successful trading strategy is to optimize the timeframe of your trading strategy to fit the market conditions. The logic of a strategy could be correct, and it could produce good results, but optimizing the setup allows you to achieve much better performances.
Coinrule allows a wide range of options so you can catch all the opportunities that the market offers.
How to optimize the timeframe of your trading strategy?
The trading bot will send an order every time a condition is met on the market. One of the most tricky parts of setting up a trading strategy is the choice of the price percentage and the timeframe of the triggers.
Coinrule allows different options to cover all traders’ needs.
Static Reference
If you select “from current live price” we use the market price at the moment of launching the rule. The bot uses that price to calculate the price that will trigger the order based on the percentage set.
When the price target calculated is reached on the market, the condition is met and the bot sends the order to the market.
If the rule has multiple executions, that market price is updated with new market conditions when the rule starts from the beginning.
It’s important to underline that the price reference updates only when execution happens, which means that if the price never reaches the first price target, the strategy will not start. You will need to edit the parameters or relaunch it in that case.
When you relaunch the strategy, that will create a new rule with an updated starting price based on the new market conditions.
Dynamic Reference – Trading Strategy Time Frame
When you select a specific timeframe, for example, within 1 hour, the rule checks the price changes according to the candlesticks provided by the exchange.
In this case, the reference updates every hour to follow the price trend dynamically. Depending on the time frame you selected, the frequency of the update changes accordingly. Of course, if the condition is met during that period, the bot sends out the order to the market.
It’s very easy to verify how it works, and if a condition is met. The price increase or decrease set in the condition must happen within the “candle” related to the time frame chosen.
For the above condition to trigger, the price increase by 5% ‘WITHIN 15 minutes’ would have to happen within one 15 minute candle.
Example 1
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Rule starts at 10.03pm, price for 1 ETH is 1,000 USD
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The last Close Price of the last closed 15 minutes candle (9.45pm) is 995 USD
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The condition is not met. The condition looks for a 5% increase over the 995 USD of the previous closed 15 minute candle
- Let’s assume at 10.13pm the price of 1 ETH reaches 1,045 USD (straight from 995 USD).
- The condition of a 5% increase is met and the rule immediately triggers
Example 2
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Rule starts at 10.03pm, price for 1 ETH is 1,000 USD
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The last Close Price of the last closed 15 minutes candle (9.45pm) is 995 USD
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The condition is not met. The condition looks for a 5% increase over the 995 USD of the previous closed 15 minute candle
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Let’s assume it is 10.37pm, the price of 1 ETH is 1,020, the 10.15pm Close Price of the 15 minute Candle was 1,010 USD. The condition now looks for a 5% price increase against the 1,010 USD.
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The rule would trigger if the price were to reach 1,060.5 USD.
In the example below, the rule is set to trigger when ETHBTC has price increase by 2%
Looking at the price chart you can verify when the rule should trigger.
Selecting a specific timeframe allows your strategy to follow the trend of the price dynamically.
Timeframes of Technical Indicators
In the case of Moving Averages and the RSI, the timeframe is used to define how to aggregate data for calculation. For example a MA(9) in a timeframe of one day stands for the average of 9 daily prices.
The selection of the timeframe has a direct impact on the frequency of the executions. In general, select 15 min or 1 hour for short term strategies and higher timeframes for long term trading systems.
How do we calculate prices?
We use real-time data coming directly from the exchanges. We use prices of specific trading pairs to increase the preciseness of the triggers and the executions. For example, if you set a condition as the following
the bot will use prices of the BTCUSDC trading pair on the exchange to verify if a condition is met or not. Using this method allows the trading bot to align the prices in the condition with the price that will be traded when the order reaches the market.
In case you create a trading strategy like the following
the trading bot will only check prices of coins that have a trading pair with USDC on the exchange, we will filter out all the others. If you want to increase the possible coins that the rule will trade, you may want to select a wallet related to a currency that offers more trading pairs on the exchange.
Now that you know how to optimize the timeframe of your trading strategy according to your preferences, you are ready to define the orders of your strategy!
Trade safely!