Trend Pulse OBV

Trend Pulse OBV at a glance

Kind of rule	Trading activity (volume-based)
Buys or sells	It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices.
Built on	ATR, EMA, OBV
Where it was published	TradingView, by its author, as a Pine Script strategy
Tested on	68 cells: 15 coins, October 2021 to June 2026, no fee
Cells that placed a trade	66 of 68
Middle result before fees	−46.2%
Cells above zero	8 of 66
Middle drawdown before fees	49.2%
Page updated	2026-11-08

Trend Pulse OBV 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 Trend Pulse OBV 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 only buys. It does not bet on falling prices. It acts only when several checks agree at once. It leans on ATR, EMA, true range; 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 33 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 close crosses above tpc upper and regime ok and (OBV is above the 60-period EMA of OBV value when Require OBV > EMA(OBV, N) (on), else on) and no position is open.
• Places a stop at (the close − (the previous 14-period ATR × ATR Stop Multiplier (1.7))) when a long position is open.
• Closes the position when (mid exit or regime exit) and a long position is open.

Buys or sells	It only buys. It does not bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	ATR, EMA, OBV
A second chart speed	No. It uses one chart speed only.
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 33 percent of the account.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 0.1 percent per side.

Default settings

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

Setting	Default	Group
Start Date	a date
End Date	a date
Source	hlc3
Poles	4
Period	144
Range Multiplier	1.414
Require OBV > EMA(OBV, N)	on
OBV EMA Length	60
Require close > regime EMA	on
Regime EMA Length	50
Exit on close < TPC midline	on
Exit on close < regime EMA	on
ATR Length	14
ATR Stop Multiplier	1.7

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 68 cells. It placed a trade on 66 of them. 8 of the cells that traded finished above zero (12.1%).

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	68
Cells that placed a trade	66
Finished above zero	8 (12.1% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	−46.2%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	XLM 4-hour: +13.3%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	AAVE 5-minute: −100.0%
Middle drawdown, before fees	49.2%

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 49.2%.

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 Trend Pulse OBV

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 Trend Pulse OBV 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
• On-balance volume (OBV): a running tally of volume by direction

"Trend Pulse OBV" 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.