Fractal Alignment System Strategy

Fractal Alignment System Strategy at a glance

Kind of rule	Candle shapes (candlestick pattern)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	price only
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	26 cells: 15 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	12 of 26
Middle result before fees	−0.1%
Cells above zero	2 of 12
Middle drawdown before fees	0.2%
Page updated	2026-11-08

Fractal Alignment System 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 Fractal Alignment System Strategy works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It acts on the shape of one or a few price bars: a tall wick, a bar that swallows the bar before it, a bar hiding inside the one before it. The shape says who won a very short fight. That information fades quickly, so the way out matters more than the way in. 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. 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 2 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 previous low is below low 2 bars ago and the low is above the previous low and (in session when Use Session Filter (on), else on) and (daily bias equals 1 when Use Daily Bias Filter (on), else on) and ((long count + 1) + 1) is below Max Trades Per Direction Per Day (3) and no position is open.
• Enters short when the previous high is above high 2 bars ago and the high is below the previous high and (in session when Use Session Filter (on), else on) and (daily bias equals −1 when Use Daily Bias Filter (on), else on) and ((short count + 1) + 1) is below Max Trades Per Direction Per Day (3) and no position is open.
• Places a target at v tp1, a stop at v stop when v direction equals 1 and a long position is open and not (v tp1 hit).
• Places a target at v tp2, a stop at v entry when v direction equals 1 and a long position is open and v tp1 hit and not (v tp2 hit).
• Places a stop at v entry, a trailing stop when v direction equals 1 and a long position is open and v tp1 hit and v tp2 hit.
• Places a target at v tp1, a stop at v stop when v direction equals −1 and a short position is open and not (v tp1 hit).

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	price only
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 2 percent of the account.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 0.0002 percent per side.

Default settings

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

Setting	Default	Group
Risk Per Trade (%)	2
SL Buffer Beyond Pivot (pips)	5
TP1 Risk Reward Ratio	2
TP2 Risk Reward Ratio	4
Percent to Close at TP1	50
Percent of Remainder at TP2	50
Trailing Stop Pips for Runner	30
Session Start Hour (GMT+3)	9
Session End Hour (GMT+3)	14
Use Session Filter	on
Show Session Background	on
Use Daily Bias Filter	on
Max Trades Per Direction Per Day	3
Show Performance Dashboard	on
Show Trade Labels	on
Show SL and TP Lines	on

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 26 cells. It placed a trade on 12 of them. 2 of the cells that traded finished above zero (16.7%).

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	26
Cells that placed a trade	12
Finished above zero	2 (16.7% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	−0.1%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	BCH 4-hour: +0.2%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	TRX 4-hour: −0.3%
Middle drawdown, before fees	0.2%

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 0.2%.

What this does not show

The useful question is how it gets out. A bar shape is about one bar, and that information fades.

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 Fractal Alignment System 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.

"Fractal Alignment System 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.