Timeframe
1h
Direction
Long Only
Stoploss
-10.0%
Trailing Stop
No
ROI
0m: 10000.0%
Interface Version
3
Startup Candles
N/A
Indicators
4
"""
VolBreakoutSized — per-pair Donchian-24 break w/ 4h regime + vol-target sizing
Paradigm: breakout
Hypothesis: v0.3.0's BTCLeaderBreakX hit 1.07 via cross-pair Donchian on BTC
triggering trades on every pair — but its single-regime success
doesn't tell us whether breakouts as a paradigm survive 2022 bear.
Try a per-pair Donchian-24 (24-bar = 1 day at 1h) WITHOUT the
BTC-leader cross-pair lever, gated by a 4h slow trend regime
(4h EMA50 > 4h EMA200 — engages/disengages on weeks-long regime
shifts), with vol-target sizing (4h ATR/close → scale stake to
target ~2.5% ATR per trade). The vol-target is the v0.4.0 honesty
mechanism: in 2022 winter ATRs balloon, so this strategy
structurally trades smaller — letting us distinguish breakout
edge from regime exposure cleanly. Patient SMA30 exit transfers
v0.3.0 Finding 2 (breakouts benefit from "ride the move" exits).
Parent: root (paradigm-inspired by v0.3.0 BTCLeaderBreakX but structurally
different: per-pair Donchian not BTC-cross-pair, 4h EMA regime not
portfolio-diversification, vol-target sizing not equal-weight)
Created: pending — fill in after first commit
Status: active
Uses MTF: yes
"""
from pandas import DataFrame
import talib.abstract as ta
from freqtrade.strategy import IStrategy, informative
class VolBreakoutSized(IStrategy):
INTERFACE_VERSION = 3
timeframe = "1h"
can_short = False
minimal_roi = {"0": 100}
# r13 reverts r12's stoploss=-0.10 → -0.99. r12 found stoploss had
# near-zero aggregate effect (Sharpe 1.122→1.100, slight drag) —
# SMA50 patient exit already cuts bad trades at ~the right point.
# Stoploss adds no value on this configuration, small drag.
stoploss = -0.99
trailing_stop = False
process_only_new_candles = True
use_exit_signal = True
exit_profit_only = False
ignore_roi_if_entry_signal = False
startup_candle_count: int = 250
@informative("4h")
def populate_indicators_4h(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
dataframe["ema50"] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=50)
dataframe["ema200"] = ta.EMA(dataframe, timeperiod=200)
dataframe["atr"] = ta.ATR(dataframe, timeperiod=14)
dataframe["atr_pct"] = dataframe["atr"] / dataframe["close"]
return dataframe
def populate_indicators(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
# Per-pair Donchian-24 prior-bar high (exclude current bar to avoid
# self-reference at break detection)
dataframe["donchian_high_24"] = dataframe["high"].rolling(24).max().shift(1)
# r15 reverts r14: SMA75→SMA50. r14 SMA75 lifted profit +72% but
# cost 0.064 Sharpe (clean risk/return tradeoff — Pareto frontier).
# SMA50 is the Sharpe optimum for this strategy.
dataframe["sma50"] = ta.SMA(dataframe, timeperiod=50)
dataframe["volume_sma20"] = dataframe["volume"].rolling(20).mean()
return dataframe
def populate_entry_trend(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
# r6: revert volume threshold 1.4x → 1.3x. r5 bump cost 0.09 Sharpe
# (1.085→0.998), the -28 filtered trades were net positive. 1.3x
# is the local optimum — clean isolation, single-knob revert.
dataframe.loc[
(dataframe["close"] > dataframe["donchian_high_24"])
& (dataframe["ema50_4h"] > dataframe["ema200_4h"])
& (dataframe["volume"] > 1.3 * dataframe["volume_sma20"]),
"enter_long",
] = 1
return dataframe
def populate_exit_trend(self, dataframe: DataFrame, metadata: dict) -> DataFrame:
# Patient ride-the-move exit (v0.3.0 Finding 2: breakouts benefit
# from slow-SMA exits, not responsive ones)
dataframe.loc[dataframe["close"] < dataframe["sma50"], "exit_long"] = 1
return dataframe
def custom_stake_amount(
self,
pair: str,
current_time,
current_rate: float,
proposed_stake: float,
min_stake,
max_stake: float,
leverage: float,
entry_tag: str,
side: str,
**kwargs,
) -> float:
# Vol-target sizing: scale stake so position-level ATR exposure
# tracks ~2.5% per 4h bar. In low-vol bull, scale is capped at 1.0
# (don't OVER-size when vol is unusually low). In high-vol bear,
# ATR% balloons → smaller stake → bear-regime de-risking.
df, _ = self.dp.get_analyzed_dataframe(pair, self.timeframe)
if df.empty or "atr_pct_4h" not in df.columns:
return proposed_stake
atr_pct = df["atr_pct_4h"].iloc[-1]
if atr_pct != atr_pct or atr_pct <= 0:
return proposed_stake
# r20 (final): vol_target 0.005→0.003. Final peak-mapping step
# before stopping for retrospective review. If Sharpe still climbs,
# the boundary is past 0.003 (extreme de-risk territory).
vol_target = 0.003
scale = min(1.0, vol_target / atr_pct)
stake = proposed_stake * scale
return max(min_stake or 0.0, min(max_stake, stake))