GXG Trend Engine

GXG Trend Engine at a glance

Kind of rule	Joining a move (trend following)
Buys or sells	It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, EMA, Heikin Ashi
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Result	no finished try; every run errored or timed out
Page updated	2026-11-08

GXG Trend Engine backtest results, every cell

There is no cloud of cells to draw. The frame below says why.

How GXG Trend Engine 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 only buys. It does not bet on falling prices. It acts only when several checks agree at once. It leans on ATR, EMA; 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 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 (the close on the period timeframe when Use Heikin Ashi Source (off), else the close) is above trail line and the 1-period EMA of price feed crosses above trail line.
• Closes the position when (the close on the period timeframe when Use Heikin Ashi Source (off), else the close) is below trail line and trail line crosses above the 1-period EMA of price feed.

Buys or sells	It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, EMA, Heikin Ashi
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 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
Reaction Factor	3
Volatility Window	1
Use Heikin Ashi Source	off

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.

It was one of the over 600 rules in the screen, but every try errored or timed out, so it has no result. That is a problem running this script, not a finding about the market.

How to read the result

How to read the number

There is no finished result on this page. A try that did not finish is not a finding about the market.

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.

There is no cell to single out, and this note does not invent one. Other years, another exchange, or another fee would be a different measurement.

Questions about GXG Trend Engine

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 GXG Trend Engine 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
• Heikin Ashi candles: smoothed bars that hide the price you would have paid

"GXG Trend Engine" 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.