Fabio + Whale + VRVP

Fabio + Whale + VRVP at a glance

Kind of rule	Breakout
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, Donchian Channels, EMA, SMA, Standard deviation
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	29 cells: 15 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	14 of 29
Middle result before fees	−0.6%
Cells above zero	5 of 14
Middle drawdown before fees	1.1%
Page updated	2026-11-08

Fabio + Whale + VRVP 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 Fabio + Whale + VRVP works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It buys when price pokes above a recent high, and it bets on a fall when price pokes under a recent low. It is wrong often. It pays for those false starts with the few times price keeps going. How far back it looks decides how many pokes it takes. 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, SMA, standard deviation; 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 CALLs (on) and (long confirmed when Confirm candle (off), else long setup).
• Enters short when PUTs (on) and (short confirmed when Confirm candle (off), else short setup).
• Places a stop at ((pending low when Confirm candle (off), else the low) − (the 14-period ATR × Stop ATR× (1))), a target at (entry price + ((entry price − (signal low − (ATR value × Stop ATR× (1)))) × R:R (2))) when a long position is open.
• Closes the position when a long position is open and (the bar index − entry bar) is at or above Max bars (20).
• Closes the position when a long position is open.
• Places a stop at ((pending low when Confirm candle (off), else the low) − (the 14-period ATR × Stop ATR× (1))), a target at (entry price + ((entry price − (signal low − (ATR value × Stop ATR× (1)))) × R:R (2))) when a short position is open.

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, Donchian Channels, EMA, SMA, Standard deviation
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 0.05 percent per side.

Default settings

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

Setting	Default	Group
CALLs	on
PUTs	on
Trend lookback	20
Trend strength	0.5
Profile lookback (bars)	100
Profile rows	40
Value Area %	70
Tolerance to level (%)	0.15
Show POC/VAH/VAL lines	on
Lookback	5
Sigma	3
Min Tier	1
Show whale dots	on
Confirm candle	off
Open CST	0830
Close CST	1400
Cooldown	5
ATR	14
Stop ATR×	1
R:R	2
Max bars	20
Plot entry/exit shapes	on
Entry/exit text labels	on
EMAs 9/21	on

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 29 cells. It placed a trade on 14 of them. 5 of the cells that traded finished above zero (35.7%).

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	29
Cells that placed a trade	14
Finished above zero	5 (35.7% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	−0.6%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	ETH 4-hour: +1.2%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	AAVE hourly: −4.0%
Middle drawdown, before fees	1.1%

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 1.1%.

What this does not show

The useful question is what the false starts cost. Count the trades, not the one that kept going.

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 Fabio + Whale + VRVP

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 Fabio + Whale + VRVP 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
• 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
• 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

"Fabio + Whale + VRVP" 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.