Confluence Engine Strategy [JOAT]

Confluence Engine Strategy [JOAT] at a glance

Kind of rule	Joining a move (trend following)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, EMA, Linear regression, RSI, SMA
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

Confluence Engine Strategy [JOAT] backtest results, every cell

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

How Confluence Engine Strategy [JOAT] works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It waits until price is already moving, then joins that move. It is wrong in small ways many times, and right in a large way a few times. The hard part is the stretch where price chops around and every entry is a fake. 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, EMA, linear regression, 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 5 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 the 9-period linear regression of the close crosses above the 5-period SMA of lr close and the 20-period EMA of the close is above the 50-period EMA of the close and higher-timeframe EMA f is above higher-timeframe EMA s and volume ok and the 14-period RSI of the close is below RSI Max for Longs (72) and is trending and (score l when lr close crosses above signal line, else 0) is at or above Min Confluence Score ….
• Enters short when the 9-period linear regression of the close crosses below the 5-period SMA of lr close and the 20-period EMA of the close is below the 50-period EMA of the close and higher-timeframe EMA f is below higher-timeframe EMA s and volume ok and the 14-period RSI of the close is above RSI Min for Shorts (28) and is trending and (score s when lr close crosses below signal line, else 0) is at or above Min Confluence Score ….
• Places a target at (the average entry price + (entry ATR × TP (ATR x) (2.5))), a stop at (the average entry price − (entry ATR × SL (ATR x) (1.5))) when in long.
• Places a target at (the average entry price + (entry ATR × TP (ATR x) (2.5))), a stop at (the average entry price − (entry ATR × SL (ATR x) (1.5))) when in short.
• Closes the position when in long and (the bar index − entry bar) is at or above Timeout Exit (bars) (20).
• Closes the position when in short and (the bar index − entry bar) is at or above Timeout Exit (bars) (20).

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, EMA, Linear regression, RSI, SMA
A second chart speed	Yes. It also looks at a second chart speed.
Only at certain hours	No.
Adding to a trade	It holds one trade at a time.
How much it trades	Each trade uses 5 percent of the account.
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
LR Length	9
LR Signal Length	5
Fast EMA	20
Slow EMA	50
ATR Length	14
Regime ATR Length	50
Min Confluence Score	50
Trade Long	on
Trade Short	on
Require Volume Spike	on
Volume SMA Length	20
Volume Multiplier	1
RSI Length	14
RSI Max for Longs	72
RSI Min for Shorts	28
Cooldown Bars After Exit	3
Regime Filter (no ranging)	on
Trending Regime Threshold	0.85
Risk Per Trade (%)	5
SL (ATR x)	1.5
TP (ATR x)	2.5
Timeout Exit (bars)	20
HTF Bias Timeframe	60
Show Signal Labels	on

and 1 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, for a rule that joins a move already underway, is what it gave back in the choppy months when there was no trend to join.

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 Confluence Engine 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 Confluence Engine Strategy [JOAT] uses

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

• ATR (average true range): the volatility number behind most stops
• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads
• Linear regression on a chart: the least-squares line, its slope, and the channel around it
• 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

"Confluence Engine 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.