Adaptive S/R Reversal — RSI Div + DCA + BE Stop (5m)

Adaptive S/R Reversal — RSI Div + DCA + BE Stop (5m) at a glance

Kind of rule	Averaging down (dollar-cost averaging)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	Donchian Channels, EMA, Pivot points, RSI, SMA, pivot low
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	20 cells: 15 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	16 of 20
Middle result before fees	−2.2%
Cells above zero	5 of 16
Middle drawdown before fees	7.4%
Page updated	2026-11-08

Adaptive S/R Reversal — RSI Div + DCA + BE Stop (5m) backtest results, every cell

Every cell is in the picture, not only the strongest. To the right of the black line is above zero. The orange line, when you see one, is the middle.

How Adaptive S/R Reversal — RSI Div + DCA + BE Stop (5m) works

Rules in this group usually work like this. When a buy goes the wrong way, it buys more, so the average price moves closer to the market. Most of the closed trades then look like small wins. The losses are rare and large, and they show up when price keeps falling. The next paragraph is this particular rule, which can be narrower than the group.

It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices. It acts only when several checks agree at once. It leans on EMA, pivot high, pivot low, RSI; those names are explained on their own pages, further down. The exact line is in the list below, in the author's names, and you can skip that list. When it enters, it also sets a stop or a target, so a trade can close without a new signal.

Each trade uses 95 percent of the account. It can stack up to 3 trades in the same direction.

The exact condition, from the code

Same rule, translated from the code, in the author's names. You can skip this list if the paragraph above was enough.

• Enters long when not (cycle closed on day equals dayofmonth) and no position is open and not (Force flatten at EOD UTC hour (on)) and the low is at or below (previous l × (1 + (S/R entry zone (%) (0.05) / 100))) and the low is above (previous l × (1 − 0.01)) and volume ok and range ok and bull div ok and (((((equity × 0.95) × (Total risk per cycle (%) (6) / 100)) / worst stop dist percent) / the close) / DCA levels (2)) is above 0.
• Enters short when not (cycle closed on day equals dayofmonth) and no position is open and not (Force flatten at EOD UTC hour (on)) and the high is at or above (previous h × (1 − (S/R entry zone (%) (0.05) / 100))) and the high is below (previous h × (1 + 0.01)) and volume ok and range ok and bear div ok and (((((equity × 0.95) × (Total risk per cycle (%) (6) / 100)) / worst stop dist percent) / the close) / DCA levels (2)) is above 0.
• Enters long when a long position is open and (((filled count + 1) + 1) + 1) is at or above 1 and (((filled count + 1) + 1) + 1) is below DCA levels (2) and the low is at or below (worst entry px × (1 − (DCA spacing (%) (0.85) / 100))).
• Enters short when a short position is open and (((filled count + 1) + 1) + 1) is at or above 1 and (((filled count + 1) + 1) + 1) is below DCA levels (2) and the high is at or above (worst entry px × (1 + (DCA spacing (%) (0.85) / 100))).
• Places a target at (target long hybrid when TP target (hybrid) equals 'hybrid', else (((previous h + previous l) / 2) × (1 − (Prev_mid TP offset (%) (0.1) / 100)))), a stop at (worst entry px × (1 − stop below worst)) when a long position is open.
• Places a target at (target long hybrid when TP target (hybrid) equals 'hybrid', else (((previous h + previous l) / 2) × (1 − (Prev_mid TP offset (%) (0.1) / 100)))), a stop at (worst entry px × (1 − stop below worst)) when a long position is open and (((filled count + 1) + 1) + 1) is at or above 2.
• Places a target at (target long hybrid when TP target (hybrid) equals 'hybrid', else (((previous h + previous l) / 2) × (1 − (Prev_mid TP offset (%) (0.1) / 100)))), a stop at (worst entry px × (1 − stop below worst)) when a long position is open and (((filled count + 1) + 1) + 1) is at or above 3.
• Places a target at (target short hybrid when TP target (hybrid) equals 'hybrid', else (((previous h + previous l) / 2) × (1 + (Prev_mid TP offset (%) (0.1) / 100)))), a stop at (worst entry px × (1 + stop below worst)) when a short position is open.

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	Donchian Channels, EMA, Pivot points, RSI, SMA, pivot low
A second chart speed	Yes. It also looks at a second chart speed.
Only at certain hours	No.
Adding to a trade	It can stack up to 3 trades in the same direction.
How much it trades	Each trade uses 95 percent of the account.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 0.04 percent per side.

Default settings

The test used the defaults in the middle column. Nothing was turned to help a coin.

Setting	Default	Group
Leverage cap	2
Total risk per cycle (%)	6
DCA levels	2
DCA spacing (%)	0.85
SL below worst entry (%)	2
S/R entry zone (%)	0.05
Force flatten at EOD UTC hour	on
Force flatten at UTC hour	20
Hold past EOD if favorable	on
Min favorable % to hold past EOD	1.5
Max cycles per UTC day	1
Require volume confirmation at entry	on
Volume × 20-bar avg	1.1
RSI period (for divergence)	14
Require RSI divergence at S/R	on
Pivot left bars	5
Pivot right bars	5
Divergence valid for N bars	20
Range filter mode	extend
Min prev range (%)	2
Max lookback days (extend mode)	2
TP target	hybrid
Hybrid: post-DCA TP distance from first entry (%)	4
Prev_mid TP offset (%)	0.1

and 3 more settings, left at the author's defaults.

How the backtest was run

Every strategy was tried the same way, on the settings the author published.

The years are October 2021 to June 2026. The prices are from Bybit, for 13 widely traded coins, mostly on hourly, 4-hour and daily charts, with some faster charts. That was 47,242 tries. The window stored in the files is 2021-09..2026-06.

599 rules produced a finished try. A rule that finished above zero on at least 12 cells, before any fee, was tried again with a fee of 0.12 percent per side. Only buys are counted in that second try. 273 rules got it.

The method, the aggregate results and a downloadable table are on the study page. What the desk does with the results beyond these pages is its own.

Before any fee, it was tried on 20 cells. It placed a trade on 16 of them. 5 of the cells that traded finished above zero (31.2%).

It was not run a second time with a fee. That second pass happens only when at least 12 cells finished above zero before fees. 273 rules got that pass.

Cells tried	20
Cells that placed a trade	16
Finished above zero	5 (31.2% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	−2.2%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	XLM daily: +13.9%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	BCH daily: −19.9%
Middle drawdown, before fees	7.4%

Label: backtest · old prices, zero commission · Oct 2021 – Jun 2026. Hypothetical results; see the risk disclosure.

How to read the result

How to read the number

The median of every cell that traded is the result. No fee has been taken off, so the number is a ceiling. A fee comes off each trade, and this page does not guess that cost, because this rule did not get the second pass where the fee is applied. The weakest and the strongest cells are not a result on their own.

The middle drawdown, on the cells that traded, was 7.4%.

What this does not show

The useful question is the largest loss while the extra buys are still open. A high share of closed wins hides that loss.

Nothing on this page was fit to the cell that finished highest. One coin, one chart speed, or one strong stretch is a single row. It is not the rule. Other years, another exchange, or another fee would be a different measurement.

Questions about Adaptive S/R Reversal — RSI Div + DCA + BE Stop (5m)

Words used on this page

Backtest

The rule was tried on old prices. No real money moved.

Cell

One coin on one chart speed. Bitcoin every 4 hours is one cell. Bitcoin once a day is another.

Chart speed

How often a new price bar is drawn. 15m means every 15 minutes, 1h means hourly, 4h means every 4 hours, 1D means once a day.

Fee, per side

A cost taken each time the rule trades. Per side means once on the way in and once on the way out.

Median

Line the cells up from the biggest loss to the biggest gain. The median is the middle one. Half the cells did better and half did worse.

Drawdown

The deepest fall from a high point along the way, as a percent of the account at that high.

Above zero

The account finished with more than it started.

The indicators Adaptive S/R Reversal — RSI Div + DCA + BE Stop (5m) uses

Each has its own page: what it measures, how it is read, where it misleads.

• Donchian Channels: the highest high and lowest low, and the breakout rule they define
• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads
• Pivot points: swing pivots and floor-trader pivots, two different things with one name
• RSI (relative strength index): the formula, the 70/30 rule, and why it misleads in trends
• Simple moving average (SMA): the plainest average, and why it still runs half the strategies

"Adaptive S/R Reversal — RSI Div + DCA + BE Stop (5m)" was published on TradingView by its author, under the author's own license. This page is an independent reading of those rules and of what they did on these old prices. It is not written with the author, and it is not a recommendation. Not every detail survives the translation onto this page, so read the original before you rely on it.