Four MA Strategy with TP and SL: backtest on crypto, and how the rule works

Four MA Strategy with TP and SL 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	EMA, SMA, VWMA, WMA, RMA
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	69 cells: 15 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	67 of 69
Middle result before fees	+0.0%
Cells above zero	0 of 67
Middle drawdown before fees	0.0%
Page updated	2026-11-08

Four MA Strategy with TP and SL 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.

Each dot is one cell, lined up by chart speed. Dots to the right of the black line finished above zero. The orange line is the middle.

Each bar is the middle result for that coin, across its chart speeds. The black line is zero.

How Four MA Strategy with TP and SL 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 EMA, RMA, SMA, VWMA; 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 (Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Both' or Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Long Only') and ma (the close, Long MA1 (10), Moving Average Type (WMA)) crosses above ma (the close, Long MA2 (20), Moving Average Type (WMA)).
Enters short when (Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Both' or Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Short Only') and ma (the close, Short MA1 (30), Moving Average Type (WMA)) crosses below ma (the close, Short MA2 (40), Moving Average Type (WMA)).
Places a target at (the average entry price × (1 + (Take Profit % (1) / 100))), a stop at (the average entry price × (1 − (Stop Loss % (1) / 100))) when (Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Both' or Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Long Only') and Enable TP and SL (on).
Closes the position when (Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Both' or Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Long Only') and (ma (the close, Long MA1 (10), Moving Average Type (WMA)) crosses below ma (the close, Long MA2 (20), Moving Average Type (WMA)) or Enable Alternate Exit Condition (off) and the close is below undefined).
Places a target at (the average entry price × (1 − (Take Profit % (1) / 100))), a stop at (the average entry price × (1 + (Stop Loss % (1) / 100))) when (Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Both' or Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Short Only') and Enable TP and SL (on).
Closes the position when (Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Both' or Trade Direction (Both) equals 'Short Only') and (ma (the close, Short MA1 (30), Moving Average Type (WMA)) crosses above ma (the close, Short MA2 (40), Moving Average Type (WMA)) or Enable Alternate Exit Condition (off) and the close is below undefined).

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	EMA, SMA, VWMA, WMA, RMA
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	The author did not set a size, so each trade uses whatever amount the code assumes.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed no trading cost.

Default settings

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

Setting	Default	Group
Long MA1	10
Long MA2	20
Short MA1	30
Short MA2	40
Moving Average Type	WMA
Enable TP and SL	on
Take Profit %	1
Stop Loss %	1
Trade Direction	Both
Enable Alternate Exit Condition	off
MA for Alternate Exit	Long MA1

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 69 cells. It placed a trade on 67 of them. 0 of the cells that traded finished above zero (0.0%).

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	69
Cells that placed a trade	67
Finished above zero	0 (0.0% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	+0.0%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	AAVE daily: +0.0%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	AAVE daily: +0.0%
Middle drawdown, before fees	0.0%

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

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 0.0%.

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.

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 Four MA Strategy with TP and SL

What is Four MA Strategy with TP and SL?

Four MA Strategy with TP and SL is a trend following trading strategy published on TradingView as a Pine Script. In plain terms it is a rule of the kind this site calls joining a move. It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices. It is built on EMA, SMA, VWMA, WMA, RMA. This page reads the rules from the code and reports what they did on old crypto prices.

How does Four MA Strategy with TP and SL work?

Is Four MA Strategy with TP and SL profitable in a backtest?

Before any fee, 0 of 67 cells that traded finished above zero, and the median of those cells was +0.0%. No fee has been taken off, so that number is a ceiling. The rule did not reach the second pass where a fee is charged on every trade.

Where can I find the Four MA Strategy with TP and SL script?

It is published on TradingView by its author. Search TradingView for the title to find the original script. This page is an independent reading and is not affiliated with the author.

What does backtest mean on this page?

Backtest means the rule was replayed on old prices from Bybit. No real money moved. Every number on this page carries that label, and old prices do not promise anything about new ones.

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 Four MA Strategy with TP and SL uses

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

"Four MA Strategy with TP and SL" 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.

Four MA Strategy with TP and SL