MASU+ v8.2 (DC+NW+ELM+VIX) [1H]

MASU+ v8.2 (DC+NW+ELM+VIX) [1H] 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	ADX / DMI, ATR, Donchian Channels, EMA, Pivot points, Rate of change, RSI, SMA, Standard deviation, VWAP, percent rank, pivot low, running total
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	12 cells: 12 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Trades placed	none
Page updated	2026-11-08

MASU+ v8.2 (DC+NW+ELM+VIX) [1H] backtest results, every cell

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

How MASU+ v8.2 (DC+NW+ELM+VIX) [1H] 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, DMI, EMA, percent rank; 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 (trend long or breakout long or mean rev long or Donchian long) and (not (Use MTF Filter (on)) or multi-timeframe bull) and (not (Use NW Kernel Ribbon (on)) or nw relaxed bull) and (not (Enable Order Flow (on)) or of bullish or the close is above VWAP) and smc filter long and (not (Enable Donchian Channel (on)) or the close is above Donchian mid) and not (elm block long) and not (vix block long) and not (Trade Only ….
• Enters short when (trend short or breakout short or mean rev short or Donchian short) and (not (Use MTF Filter (on)) or multi-timeframe bear) and (not (Use NW Kernel Ribbon (on)) or nw relaxed bear) and (not (Enable Order Flow (on)) or of bearish or the close is below VWAP) and smc filter short and (not (Enable Donchian Channel (on)) or the close is below Donchian mid) and not (Enable ELM Filter (on) and AI Can Block? (off) and elm ….
• On entry, places a target at (the close + (the 14-period ATR × Partial TP (ATR) (1.5))), a stop at (the lowest low of the last 20 bars when Use DC for Stop Loss (off) and Enable Donchian Channel (on), else (the close − (the 14-period ATR × regime stop))).
• On entry, places a stop at (the lowest low of the last 20 bars when Use DC for Stop Loss (off) and Enable Donchian Channel (on), else (the close − (the 14-period ATR × regime stop))), a trailing stop.
• On entry, places a stop at (the lowest low of the last 20 bars when Use DC for Stop Loss (off) and Enable Donchian Channel (on), else (the close − (the 14-period ATR × regime stop))), a target at (the close + (the 14-period ATR × regime target)).
• On entry, places a target at (the close − (the 14-period ATR × Partial TP (ATR) (1.5))), a stop at (the highest high of the last 20 bars when Use DC for Stop Loss (off) and Enable Donchian Channel (on), else (the close + (the 14-period ATR × regime stop))).

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ADX / DMI, ATR, Donchian Channels, EMA, Pivot points, Rate of change, RSI, SMA, Standard deviation, VWAP, percent rank, pivot low, running total
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 10 percent of the account.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 7 per contract.

Default settings

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

Setting	Default	Group
Asset Type	Auto	Asset Detection
Trade Only During Session	on	Time Filter
Trading Hours	0900-2200	Time Filter
Trend EMA Fast	21	Trend
Trend EMA Slow	50	Trend
Trend Filter EMA	200	Trend
Enable Donchian Channel	on	Donchian Channel
Donchian Period	20	Donchian Channel
Show Donchian Lines	on	Donchian Channel
Use DC Breakout Signals	on	Donchian Channel
Use DC for Stop Loss	off	Donchian Channel
Squeeze Threshold (x avg)	0.6	Donchian Channel
Enable VIX Sentiment	on	VIX Fear & Greed
VIX Symbol	CBOE:VIX	VIX Fear & Greed
Extreme Fear (VIX >)	30	VIX Fear & Greed
Fear (VIX >)	22	VIX Fear & Greed
Greed (VIX <)	14	VIX Fear & Greed
Extreme Greed (VIX <)	12	VIX Fear & Greed
VIX ROC Period	5	VIX Fear & Greed
Block Entries on Extreme Fear	off	VIX Fear & Greed
Adjust Position Size by Sentiment	on	VIX Fear & Greed
Show VIX Background Tint	on	VIX Fear & Greed
Enable Market Breadth	on	Market Breadth
Breadth Proxy Symbol	OANDA:SPX500USD	Market Breadth

and 70 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 12 cells, and it placed no trades.

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	12
Cells that placed a trade	0
Finished above zero	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

No cell took a trade, so there is no return to read. The rule above is the whole note.

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.

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 MASU+ v8.2 (DC+NW+ELM+VIX) [1H]

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 MASU+ v8.2 (DC+NW+ELM+VIX) [1H] uses

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

• ADX and the directional movement index: how strong the trend is, not which way
• 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
• Pivot points: swing pivots and floor-trader pivots, two different things with one name
• Rate of change (ROC) and momentum: the simplest measures of speed
• RSI (relative strength index): the formula, the 70/30 rule, and why it misleads in trends
• 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
• VWAP: the volume-weighted average price, and why its anchor is the whole question

"MASU+ v8.2 (DC+NW+ELM+VIX) [1H]" 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.