EMA Slope - RSI Oscilator Strategy

EMA Slope - RSI Oscilator Strategy at a glance

Kind of rule	Trading activity (volume-based)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, EMA, Pivot points, RSI, SMA, Standard deviation, VWMA, WMA, pivot low, swma
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	54 cells: 13 coins on 5 chart speeds (15m, 30m, 1h, 4h, 1D), October 2021 to June 2026
Fee in the test	0.12 percent per side, buys only
Middle result after fees, every cell	−20.8%
Cells above zero	18 of 54
Cells that cleared the quality check	8 of 54
Middle drawdown, every cell	59.1%
Page updated	2026-11-08

EMA Slope - RSI Oscilator Strategy 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 EMA Slope - RSI Oscilator Strategy works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It acts when a lot of the coin is changing hands, or when price is on one side of the average price paid (often called VWAP). The idea is that a move with heavy trading behind it is more likely to continue. Crypto volume differs by exchange, so the filter inherits that. 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, pivot high, pivot low; 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. It gets out when another set of checks agrees. That line is in the list below too.

Each trade uses 90 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 no long position is open and entry outside ntz and last bar filter long and (ntz cross long or Enable Acceleration Entry (on) and sudden slope raise long or RSI divergence long or slope RSI divergence long or Enable RSI-Slope Oscillator Entries (off) and RSI slope oscillator long).
• Enters short when no short position is open and entry outside ntz and last bar filter short and (ntz cross short or Enable Acceleration Entry (on) and sudden slope raise short or RSI divergence short or slope RSI divergence short or Enable RSI-Slope Oscillator Entries (off) and RSI slope oscillator short).
• Enters short when a long position is open and not (suppress long position logic) and Reverse/Close on RSI-Slope Cross (Same Direction) (on) and (waiting for bearish cross confirmation and bars since cross bearish valid or (RSI − 50) crosses below ((100 / pi) × atan((ma df / ma dfscale)))) and (RSI − 50) is below the previous (RSI − 50) and slope heading down and the close is below the open and not (use timeframe delta) and Reverse ….
• Enters long when a short position is open and not (suppress short position logic) and Reverse/Close on RSI-Slope Cross (Same Direction) (on) and (waiting for bullish cross confirmation and bars since cross bullish valid or (RSI − 50) crosses above ((100 / pi) × atan((ma df / ma dfscale)))) and (RSI − 50) is above the previous (RSI − 50) and slope heading up and the close is above the open and not (use timeframe delta) and Reverse ….
• Closes the position when a long position is open and not (suppress long position logic) and Reverse/Close on RSI-Slope Cross (Same Direction) (on) and (waiting for bearish cross confirmation and bars since cross bearish valid or (RSI − 50) crosses below ((100 / pi) × atan((ma df / ma dfscale)))) and (RSI − 50) is below the previous (RSI − 50) and slope heading down and the close is below the open and not (use timeframe delta) and Reverse ….
• Closes the position when a long position is open and not (suppress long position logic) and Reverse/Close on RSI-Slope Cross (Same Direction) (on) and (waiting for bearish cross confirmation and bars since cross bearish valid or (RSI − 50) crosses below ((100 / pi) × atan((ma df / ma dfscale)))) and (RSI − 50) is below the previous (RSI − 50) and slope heading down and the close is below the open and not (use timeframe delta) and not ….
• Closes the position when a short position is open and not (suppress short position logic) and Reverse/Close on RSI-Slope Cross (Same Direction) (on) and (waiting for bullish cross confirmation and bars since cross bullish valid or (RSI − 50) crosses above ((100 / pi) × atan((ma df / ma dfscale)))) and (RSI − 50) is above the previous (RSI − 50) and slope heading up and the close is above the open and not (use timeframe delta) and Reverse ….
• Closes the position when a short position is open and not (suppress short position logic) and Reverse/Close on RSI-Slope Cross (Same Direction) (on) and (waiting for bullish cross confirmation and bars since cross bullish valid or (RSI − 50) crosses above ((100 / pi) × atan((ma df / ma dfscale)))) and (RSI − 50) is above the previous (RSI − 50) and slope heading up and the close is above the open and not (use timeframe delta) and not ….

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, EMA, Pivot points, RSI, SMA, Standard deviation, VWMA, WMA, pivot low, swma
A second chart speed	No. It uses one chart speed only.
Only at certain hours	No.
Adding to a trade	It holds one trade at a time.
How much it trades	Each trade uses 90 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
Short MA Length	20
Short MA Type	EMA
Long MA Length	160
Long MA Type	EMA
Smooth Bars	3
Slope Arctan Scale (Bars)	140
NTZ Threshold	10
Acceleration display greater than	20
Position Size Type	Percent of Equity
Position Size Value	90
Max Stretch Threshold (%)	0.34
Minimum Delta Threshold	2.3
Enable Acceleration Entry	on
Min Acceleration for Entry	5
Use MA Trend Confirmation	on
Last Bar Filter	on
Enable RSI Divergence Entries	off
Show RSI Divergences	on
RSI Length	12
RSI Smoothing	3
Divergence Sensitivity	6
Max Peaks to Compare	8
Show Slope-RSI Exhaustion	on
Enable Slope-RSI Divergence Entries	on

and 25 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.

This is the second pass. A fee of 0.12 percent per side is taken on the buy and again on the sell. Only buys are counted. If the rule also bets on falling prices, those trades are not in these numbers.

After fees, 18 of 54 cells finished above zero (33.3%). The median of every cell was −20.8%.

8 of the cells cleared a quality check: at least 50 trades, gains that are not one lucky trade, and a drawdown that is real without taking the whole account.

Finished above zero by chart speed: 15-minute chart, 15m 0 of 13; daily chart, 1D 1 of 2; hourly chart, 1h 8 of 13; 30-minute chart, 30m 4 of 13; 4-hour chart, 4h 5 of 13.

Cells tried after the fee	54
Finished above zero	18 (33.3%)
Middle result, the median of every cell	−20.8%
Middle drawdown, every cell	59.1%
Cells that cleared the quality check	8
Middle result, over the cells that cleared the quality check	+19.5%
Extra, Calmar on the checked rows. Result divided by the deepest fall	0.38
Extra, Sharpe on the checked rows. Result divided by how bumpy the path was	0.03
Middle drawdown, the checked rows	47.4%
Deepest fall, the checked rows	85.7%
Middle number of trades, the checked rows	100

Label: backtest · old prices, buys only, a fee of 0.12 percent per side, every cell · 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 is the result of the rule. The author's settings were not changed to help any coin. The weakest and the strongest cells are not a result on their own.

What the number leaves out

The table also shows +19.5%, taken only over the cells that cleared the quality check. Cells that finished down are left out of that figure, which is why it stands away from the median of every cell. It describes those rows only.

8 of 54 cells cleared a quality check: at least 50 trades, a profit factor that is not one lucky trade, and a drawdown that is real without taking the whole account. Profit factor means the gains divided by the losses. Clearing the check describes this sample. It says nothing about the next set of years.

The count above is also split by chart speed. A speed that finished higher, in these years, is one slice of the same rule. It is not a separate strategy.

What this does not show

The useful question is which exchange the volume came from. The amount traded is not the same number everywhere.

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 EMA Slope - RSI Oscilator Strategy

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 EMA Slope - RSI Oscilator Strategy 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
• 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
• Volume-weighted moving average (VWMA): an average that listens to volume
• Weighted moving average (WMA): linear weights, less lag, and the price of it

"EMA Slope - RSI Oscilator Strategy" 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.