*Backtesting System Template

*Backtesting System Template at a glance

Kind of rule	Time of day (session and opening range)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ADX / DMI, ALMA, ATR, Donchian Channels, EMA, Hull MA, Linear regression, MACD, RSI, Standard deviation, bars since, falling, rising, running total, value when
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	13 cells: 13 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Trades placed	none
Page updated	2026-11-08

*Backtesting System Template backtest results, every cell

There is no cloud of cells to draw. The frame below says why.

How *Backtesting System Template works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It only acts during set hours, such as the London or New York morning. Crypto never closes, so those hours are a choice, not a fact of the market. The question is whether those hours behave the same way on more than one coin. 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 ALMA, ATR, DMI, EMA; 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 10 percent of the account. It holds one trade at a time.

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 signal equals 1 and Long Deals (on) and ok to trade and filter long ok.
• Enters short when signal equals −1 and Short Deals (on) and ok to trade and filter short ok.
• Closes the position when Close Early # Bars (0) is above 0 and (((bars below entry + 1) + 1) + 1) is at or above Close Early # Bars (0) and (not ((𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 ([1] S.ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛʏ) equals 'Trailing' or 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 ([1] S.ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛʏ) equals 'Fast Trail' or 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 ([1] S.ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛʏ) equals 'MA' or 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 ([1] S.ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛʏ) equals 'Activator' or 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 ([1] S.ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛʏ) equals 'HILOEST' or 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 ([1] S.ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛʏ) equals 'SAR')) or (𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬 ([1] S.ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛʏ) ….
• Closes the position when signal equals 1 and Long Deals (on) and ok to trade and filter long ok and ReOpen Deal (off) and in long and signal equals 1 and Long Deals (on) and ok to trade and filter long ok.
• Closes the position when signal equals −1 and Short Deals (on) and ok to trade and filter short ok and ReOpen Deal (off) and in short and signal equals −1 and Short Deals (on) and ok to trade and filter short ok.
• Keeps a target at (build leveles ((na (float) when 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 (R:R) differs from 'None', else na (float)), 0) when 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 (R:R) differs from 'None', else na (float)), a stop at (na (float) when 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 (R:R) differs from 'None', else build leveles ((na (float) when 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭 (R:R) differs … working while the position is open.

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ADX / DMI, ALMA, ATR, Donchian Channels, EMA, Hull MA, Linear regression, MACD, RSI, Standard deviation, bars since, falling, rising, running total, value when
A second chart speed	No. It uses one chart speed only.
Only at certain hours	Yes. It only acts during set hours.
Adding to a trade	It holds one trade at a time.
How much it trades	Each trade uses 10 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
𝐄𝐱𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞	close
Long Deals	on
Short Deals	on
Close at Session End	off
Wait End Deal	on
Reverse Signal	off
ReEntry Deal	off
ReOpen Deal	off
𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐭	R:R
𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐋𝐨𝐬𝐬	[1] S.ᴠᴏʟᴀᴛʏ
ᵀ¹	off
qtake1	20
ᵀ²	off
qtake2	20
ᵀ³	off
qtake3	20
ᵀ⁴	off
qtake4	20
ᵀ⁵	off
qtake5	20
s⁰	off
qstop0	50
Custom Timezone	off
timezone str	UTC

and 91 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 13 cells, and it placed no trades.

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	13
Cells that placed a trade	0
Finished above zero	0

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

No cell took a trade, so there is no return to read. The rule above is the whole note.

What this does not show

The useful question is whether the same hours work on other coins. Crypto has no closing bell, so the hour is a choice.

There is no cell to single out, and this note does not invent one. Other years, another exchange, or another fee would be a different measurement.

Questions about *Backtesting System Template

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 *Backtesting System Template uses

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

• ADX and the directional movement index: how strong the trend is, not which way
• Arnaud Legoux moving average (ALMA): a Gaussian window with an offset
• ATR (average true range): the volatility number behind most stops
• 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
• Hull moving average (HMA): how it removes lag, and what it costs
• Linear regression on a chart: the least-squares line, its slope, and the channel around it
• MACD: two EMAs, a signal line and a histogram, read correctly
• RSI (relative strength index): the formula, the 70/30 rule, and why it misleads in trends
• Standard deviation in trading: the volatility measure inside Bollinger Bands and z-scores

"*Backtesting System Template" 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.