Caldera Meridian Strategy [JOAT]

Caldera Meridian Strategy [JOAT] at a glance

Kind of rule	Chart turning points (price action and market structure)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ADX / DMI, ATR, EMA, MACD, Pivot points, RSI, SMA, Standard deviation, VWAP, percent rank, pivot low
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

Caldera Meridian Strategy [JOAT] backtest results, every cell

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

How Caldera Meridian Strategy [JOAT] works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It tries to act the way a person reading a chart would: at spots where price turned, at gaps, and at places where many people are likely to have set a stop. In code those ideas become counts of bars. The result depends on how those spots are defined. 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 ATR, DMI, EMA, MACD; 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.

The author did not set a size, so each trade uses whatever amount the code assumes. 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 not (Use session filter (off)) and no position is open and clamp (long score raw, 0, 100) is at or above Minimum execution score (72) and clamp (long score raw, 0, 100) is above (clamp (short score raw, 0, 100) + 8) and (not (Use confirmed HTF filter (on)) or the close is above higher-timeframe basis) and not (auction premium).
• Enters short when not (Use session filter (off)) and no position is open and clamp (short score raw, 0, 100) is at or above Minimum execution score (72) and clamp (short score raw, 0, 100) is above (clamp (long score raw, 0, 100) + 8) and (not (Use confirmed HTF filter (on)) or the close is below higher-timeframe basis) and not (auction discount).
• Places a stop at active long stop, a target at (the close + (the larger of |(the close − ATR stop)| and (the 21-period ATR × 0.25) × TP1 R (1))) when a long position is open.
• Places a stop at active long stop, a target at (the close + (the larger of |(the close − ATR stop)| and (the 21-period ATR × 0.25) × TP2 R (2))) when a long position is open.
• Places a stop at active long stop, a target at (the close + (the larger of |(the close − ATR stop)| and (the 21-period ATR × 0.25) × TP3 R (3.2))) when a long position is open.
• Places a stop at active short stop, a target at undefined when a short position is open.

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ADX / DMI, ATR, EMA, MACD, Pivot points, RSI, SMA, Standard deviation, VWAP, percent rank, pivot low
A second chart speed	Yes. It also looks at a second chart speed.
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	The author did not set a size, so each trade uses whatever amount the code assumes.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 0.05 percent per side.

Default settings

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

Setting	Default	Group
Fast EMA	21
Mid EMA	55
Slow EMA	200
ATR length	21
Regime memory	120
Markov transition memory	80
Minimum continuation probability	58
Pivot confirmation	5
Pressure window	24
Volume baseline	34
Auction memory	90
Value deviation	1.15
Displacement ATR multiplier	1.1
Use confirmed HTF filter	on
Confirmed HTF	240
HTF EMA length	55
Use session filter	off
Trading session	0930-1600
Minimum execution score	72
Stop ATR multiplier	1.7
TP1 R	1
TP2 R	2
TP3 R	3.2
TP1 quantity %	35

and 7 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 how the turning points are counted in the code. A person can be vague. The code has to count bars.

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 Caldera Meridian Strategy [JOAT]

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 Caldera Meridian Strategy [JOAT] 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
• ATR (average true range): the volatility number behind most stops
• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads
• MACD: two EMAs, a signal line and a histogram, read correctly
• 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
• Standard deviation in trading: the volatility measure inside Bollinger Bands and z-scores
• VWAP: the volume-weighted average price, and why its anchor is the whole question

"Caldera Meridian Strategy [JOAT]" 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.