FX Institutional SMC – Clean Dark Zones vFinal

FX Institutional SMC – Clean Dark Zones vFinal at a glance

Kind of rule	Chart turning points (price action and market structure)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, Donchian Channels, SMA
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	18 cells: 11 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	7 of 18
Middle result before fees	+0.9%
Cells above zero	5 of 7
Middle drawdown before fees	0.3%
Page updated	2026-11-08

FX Institutional SMC – Clean Dark Zones vFinal 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 FX Institutional SMC – Clean Dark Zones vFinal works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It tries to act the way a person reading a chart would: at spots where price turned, at gaps, and at places where many people are likely to have set a stop. In code those ideas become counts of bars. The result depends on how those spots are defined. 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, SMA; 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 the whole 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 bull bias and the close is above the 50-period SMA of the close and the close crosses above inline series (the highest close of the last 5 bars, 1) and fair value gap active and trades today is below 2 and daily loss amount is below 2 and no long position is open.
• Enters short when bear bias and the close is below the 50-period SMA of the close and the close crosses below inline series (the lowest close of the last 5 bars, 1) and fair value gap active and trades today is below 2 and daily loss amount is below 2 and no short position is open.
• On entry, places a stop at (the close − (the 14-period ATR × ATR Multiplier (2.2))), a target at (the close + (the 14-period ATR × RR Target (2))).
• On entry, places a stop at (the close + (the 14-period ATR × ATR Multiplier (2.2))), a target at (the close − (the 14-period ATR × RR Target (2))).

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, Donchian Channels, SMA
A second chart speed	Yes. It also looks at a second chart speed.
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 the whole account.
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
Risk % per Trade	0.5
RR Target	2
ATR Length	14
ATR Multiplier	2.2
Trend SMA Length	50
Max Trades per Day	2
Trading Session (UTC)	0000-2359
Label Size	normal
Zone Transparency (0-100)	80

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 18 cells. It placed a trade on 7 of them. 5 of the cells that traded finished above zero (71.4%).

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	18
Cells that placed a trade	7
Finished above zero	5 (71.4% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	+0.9%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	BCH 4-hour: +0.9%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	ADA 4-hour: −1.0%
Middle drawdown, before fees	0.3%

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 0.3%.

What this does not show

The useful question is how the turning points are counted in the code. A person can be vague. The code has to count bars.

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 FX Institutional SMC – Clean Dark Zones vFinal

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 FX Institutional SMC – Clean Dark Zones vFinal 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
• Simple moving average (SMA): the plainest average, and why it still runs half the strategies

"FX Institutional SMC – Clean Dark Zones vFinal" 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.