Uptrick X PineIndicators: Z-Score Flow Strategy

Uptrick X PineIndicators: Z-Score Flow Strategy at a glance

Kind of rule	Betting on a snap-back (mean reversion)
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	EMA, RSI, SMA, Standard deviation
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	−43.8%
Cells above zero	6 of 66
Middle drawdown before fees	78.9%
Page updated	2026-11-08

Uptrick X PineIndicators: Z-Score Flow Strategy 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 Uptrick X PineIndicators: Z-Score Flow Strategy works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It buys after a fall and sells after a rise, on the idea that price returns toward normal. The wins are usually small and frequent. The loss comes when price does not return and the stretch turns into a trend. 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 EMA, RSI, SMA, standard deviation; 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 30 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 Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Standard' and Enable Long Trades (on) and raw buy and (the bar index − last sell bar) is above Cooldown (Bars) (10).
• Enters short when Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Standard' and Enable Short Trades (on) and raw sell and (the bar index − last buy bar) is above Cooldown (Bars) (10).
• Enters long when not (Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Standard') and Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Zero Cross' and zscore crosses above 0 and Enable Long Trades (on).
• Enters short when not (Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Standard') and Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Zero Cross' and zscore crosses below 0 and Enable Short Trades (on).
• Closes the position when Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Standard' and Enable Long Trades (on) and raw sell and (the bar index − last buy bar) is above Cooldown (Bars) (10).
• Closes the position when Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Standard' and Enable Short Trades (on) and raw buy and (the bar index − last sell bar) is above Cooldown (Bars) (10).
• Closes the position when not (Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Standard') and Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Zero Cross' and zscore crosses above 0 and Enable Short Trades (on).
• Closes the position when not (Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Standard') and Trade Mode (Standard) equals 'Zero Cross' and zscore crosses below 0 and Enable Long Trades (on).

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	EMA, RSI, SMA, Standard deviation
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 30 percent of the 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
Z-Score Period	100
EMA Trend Filter	50
RSI Length	14
EMA of RSI Period	8
Z-Score Buy Threshold	-2
Z-Score Sell Threshold	2
Cooldown (Bars)	10
Slope Sensitivity (Bars)	30
Show Z-Score Mean Line	on
Show Gradient to Price	on
Trade Mode	Standard
Enable Long Trades	on
Enable Short Trades	on

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. 6 of the cells that traded finished above zero (9.1%).

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	6 (9.1% of the cells that traded)
Middle result, before fees	−43.8%
Strongest cell, the top of the range	LTC 4-hour: +89.7%
Weakest cell, the bottom of the range	AVAX 30-minute: −247.4%
Middle drawdown, before fees	78.9%

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 78.9%.

What this does not show

The useful question is the stretch that never snapped back. That is where a year of small wins can disappear.

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 Uptrick X PineIndicators: Z-Score Flow Strategy

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 Uptrick X PineIndicators: Z-Score Flow Strategy uses

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

• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads
• 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

"Uptrick X PineIndicators: Z-Score Flow Strategy" 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.