VIX Fix VIX Strategy

VIX Fix VIX Strategy at a glance

Kind of rule	Breakout
Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Built on	Bollinger Bands, EMA, MACD, SMA, Standard deviation, VWMA, WMA, RMA
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

VIX Fix VIX Strategy backtest results, every cell

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

How VIX Fix VIX Strategy works

Rules in this group usually work like this. It buys when price pokes above a recent high, and it bets on a fall when price pokes under a recent low. It is wrong often. It pays for those false starts with the few times price keeps going. How far back it looks decides how many pokes it takes. 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, MACD, RMA, 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 10 percent of the account. It can stack up to 5 trades in the same direction.

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 ((wvfh + wvfl) crosses above (ma (wvfh, ma length (20), ma type (SMA)) × Factor Upper MA (1.1)) and MACD line is below 0 or (wvfh + wvfl) is above (ma (wvfh, ma length (20), ma type (SMA)) × Factor Upper MA (1.1)) and equals ).
• Enters short when (sell when not (Use Short-Selling-Level? (on)) and not (Shorting? (on)), else (sell when the close is at or above Short-Selling-Level (20) and sell, else off)).
• Places a stop at (the close × StopLoss level - 0.80 = 20% below entry (0.8)) when ((wvfh + wvfl) crosses above (ma (wvfh, ma length (20), ma type (SMA)) × Factor Upper MA (1.1)) and MACD line is below 0 or (wvfh + wvfl) is above (ma (wvfh, ma length (20), ma type (SMA)) × Factor Upper MA (1.1)) and equals ) and Use StopLoss? (off).
• Places a stop at (the close × (2 − StopLoss level - 0.80 = 20% below entry (0.8))) when (sell when not (Use Short-Selling-Level? (on)) and not (Shorting? (on)), else (sell when the close is at or above Short-Selling-Level (20) and sell, else off)) and Use StopLoss? (off).
• Closes the position when Close position at contract expiration? (off).
• Closes the position when Use Fixed Selldate? (on) and bars since entry (j) is at or above Bars till expiration (180) and strategy.opentrades.entry comment(j 4bf equals 'L'.

Buys or sells	It can buy, and it can bet on falling prices.
Tools it calculates	Bollinger Bands, EMA, MACD, SMA, Standard deviation, VWMA, WMA, RMA
A second chart speed	Yes. It also looks at a second chart speed.
Only at certain hours	No.
Adding to a trade	It can stack up to 5 trades in the same direction.
How much it trades	Each trade uses 10 percent of the account.
Cost the author assumed	The author assumed a trading cost of 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
LookBack Period VIX Fix	22
Bollinger Band Length	20
Bollinger Band Standard Deviation Up	2
Look Back Period Last High/Low	50
Percentile of Last High - 0.90=90%, 0.95=95%, 0.99=99%	0.99
Percentile of Last Low - 1.10=90%, 1.05=95%, 1.01=99%	1.01
Show High/Low Range - Based on Percentile and Lookback Period?	on
Show Standard Deviation Line?	on
Use Buy-Level-Stop?	on
Buy-Stop-Level	20
Shorting?	on
Use Short-Selling-Level?	on
Short-Selling-Level	20
Use StopLoss?	off
StopLoss level - 0.80 = 20% below entry	0.8
MA	on
ma type	SMA
ma source	WVF
ma length	20
Show Upper Factor of MA	on
Show Lower Factor of MA	on
Factor Upper MA	1.1
Factor Lower MA	3
Use MA Entry Optimization?	on

and 13 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 what the false starts cost. Count the trades, not the one that kept going.

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 VIX Fix VIX 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 VIX Fix VIX Strategy uses

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

• Bollinger Bands: a moving average with two standard deviations on each side
• Exponential moving average (EMA): what it measures and where it misleads
• MACD: two EMAs, a signal line and a histogram, read correctly
• 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
• Volume-weighted moving average (VWMA): an average that listens to volume
• Weighted moving average (WMA): linear weights, less lag, and the price of it
• Wilder's smoothing (RMA): the average inside RSI, ATR and ADX

"VIX Fix VIX 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.