Sniper Trade Pro (ES 15-Min) - Topstep Optimized

Sniper Trade Pro (ES 15-Min) - Topstep Optimized at a glance

Kind of rule	Trading activity (volume-based)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	ADX / DMI, ATR, EMA, Rate of change, SMA, VWAP, momentum
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	66 cells: 15 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	2 of 66
Middle result before fees	+0.0%
Cells above zero	2 of 2
Middle drawdown before fees	0.0%
Page updated	2026-11-08

Sniper Trade Pro (ES 15-Min) - Topstep Optimized 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 Sniper Trade Pro (ES 15-Min) - Topstep Optimized works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It acts when a lot of the coin is changing hands, or when price is on one side of the average price paid (often called VWAP). The idea is that a move with heavy trading behind it is more likely to continue. Crypto volume differs by exchange, so the filter inherits that. 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, EMA, momentum, 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 a fixed size of 1. 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 9-period EMA of the close is above the 21-period EMA of the close and the close is above VWAP and (1 when mfd is above the 10-period SMA of mfd, else −1) equals 1 and bull engulfing and ADX is above 20 and ((cumulative loss + trade loss) + trade loss) is above −1000.
• Enters short when the 9-period EMA of the close is below the 21-period EMA of the close and the close is below VWAP and (1 when mfd is above the 10-period SMA of mfd, else −1) equals −1 and bear engulfing and ADX is above 20 and ((cumulative loss + trade loss) + trade loss) is above −1000.
• On entry, places a stop at (the close − (the 14-period ATR × 0.8)), a target at (the close + (the 14-period ATR × 2)).
• On entry, places a stop at (the close + (the 14-period ATR × 0.8)), a target at (the close − (the 14-period ATR × 2)).
• Keeps a stop at the average entry price working while the position is open.

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ADX / DMI, ATR, EMA, Rate of change, SMA, VWAP, momentum
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	Each trade uses a fixed size of 1.
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.

The author left no settings adjustable. Every number is fixed in the code.

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 66 cells. It placed a trade on 2 of them. 2 of the cells that traded finished above zero (100.0%).

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	66
Cells that placed a trade	2
Finished above zero	2 (100.0% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	+0.0%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	ETH 30-minute: +0.0%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	ETH 15-minute: +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 is which exchange the volume came from. The amount traded is not the same number everywhere.

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 Sniper Trade Pro (ES 15-Min) - Topstep Optimized

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 Sniper Trade Pro (ES 15-Min) - Topstep Optimized 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
• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads
• Rate of change (ROC) and momentum: the simplest measures of speed
• Simple moving average (SMA): the plainest average, and why it still runs half the strategies
• VWAP: the volume-weighted average price, and why its anchor is the whole question

"Sniper Trade Pro (ES 15-Min) - Topstep Optimized" 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.