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Hello!
Iāve been doing some backtesting to try new things on this strategy. Iāve chosen this S10 because it uses a trading bot and not a combo bot and it have allowed me to test a few things as using an indicator for deal start condition or try to compound the bot.
Context:
1. Backtesting periods: I have backtested all the conditions on 3 periods of 3 months in order to not have a too big deviation causing gaps in the backtest. The 3 periods are:
- february-march-april 2024
- november-december-january 2023/2024
- august-september.october 2023
2. Indicator choice: I decided to use a very simple indicator here, it was a market structure indicator, so each time a 1 min lower low was crossed it opens a new trade. Why I have chosen this indicator? Because I wanted to optimize a little bit the entry conditions without loosing to much time entering trades. The number of trades of each backtested period is the same with this setting.
3. Compounding: I just changed the currency reference from USDC to %free USDC to try to compound. For clarification I backtested an account with 2368$ with 5 and 20% USDC that more or less corresponds to 100 and 400 USDC.
Results:
What I can say by looking at these results is:
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That the market structure indicator seems to improve a little bit the net results, mostly on the second backtesting period. There is no conclusion to make on the drawdown as sometimes it gets better and sometimes worse.
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The compounding condition seems to improve the net results obtained most of the time except for the time where I backtested with 400 USDC but the drawdown gets worse which makes sense as the position increases over time because if a crash occurs, a larger drawdown may also happen.
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The best condition (400 USDC / ASAP) doesnāt make sense to me for now. I donāt understand why I am getting the best results with this one as it donāt use indicator or compounding. For me it seems a too large position that could result in a big lose if a big crash occurs, but I should look more into the details on this one.
Feel free to give your opinion or suggestions on this. See you! 
ASAP is highly dependent on the period used. If the period is somewhat bullish, ASAP is likely to overperform the indicators, and when the period is bearish it will underperform. Having ASAP deals means being always in the market, so if the period is bullish it will translate to more deals and more profit. And always being in the market is a risk in itself, as you point out a sharp downturn will surely catch you.
Indicators may have lower performance, but as you are timing your entry and exit, your time in the market is less, and therefore your risk is lower. The goal is not necessarily to obtain the highest performance strategy, but to obtain the strategy that gets more performance as related to their risk. This is where the sortino ratio comes in handy.
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Wooow itās great that you spent some time looking into it and shared some insights about it
I start saying that the S-10 is still under development so it has something interesting (probably one of the most interesting strategies an ever looked into) but also things that needs improvements.
As @aressanch said ASAP really depends on the time you started the backtest which it could be an advantage or disadvantage mainly because the strategy it selves doesnāt rely on any timeframe but price ranges - this means it could move, close, start or get stuck (atm) not being linked to time.
The strategy tempts to draw lines across the chart spacing them evenly to catch any price movement - if the price goes up or down or sideways it wonāt matter- why? Because we create traps in ranges ($70k to $60k and all the way down spaced evenly or $70k to $80k all the way up spaced evenly) simulating an infinite grid.
Introducing a moving SL (positive value) solved some issues improving speed and profitability since if closes the deal and restarts - but Iām not working on a way to making it more dynamic so if the price moves with high volatility it doesnāt close deals in negative but instead profits from it and also Iām looking to a way to make the drawdown more dynamic to cover a wider range.
The reason why I developed this strategy on a trading bot is mainly because allows us to merge deals if the price crashes at any point therefore our average price once merged will be quite competitive since we bought at every x%, while profiting from some deals via multi TPs.
Note - I know many traders running strategies using the min order size making practically any strategy affordable and low risk.
I will add more info when I have a moment and also some features suggestions about some IF conditions to support not only this strategy but any strategies that doesnāt come out of the box 
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Thanks @aressanch and @Rossano for these clarifications! I understand now that the idea of adding an indicator is not that good because we want to trade in both directions and opening trades as fast as possible, I had a bullish bias on this.
@Rossano Iāve noticed something strange on the S-10 0 MOVS strategy, there is by default a SL parameter with webhook. It is intended or it is a mistake? If itās intended, how does this SL work in that specific case?
Iāve also experimented with high timeframe indicators like the Supertrend or Moving Average on a 1D chart. The bot will open deals as soon as there is a long-term bullish trend. The issue arises when the market turns bearish, but the Supertrend indicator still signals a bullish trend. To address this, I added another short-term Supertrend, such as on a 15-minute chart. In some strategies, this yields decent results, but executing trades immediately (without indicators) often outperforms using indicators. However, as @aressanch mentioned, itās all about managing drawdown and achieving a higher Sortino Ratio.
Yes this trick is used so we donāt have any actual SL (or you can use -100% SL).
Webhook is even safer as it will never trigger but it will allow the moving SL to move in positive as soon as one TP is filled - hope itās clear
You will also see multiple deals atm thatās because it testing the dynamic drawdown manually so at the moment deals overlaps
Indicator gives you and indication of something but you can only decide a trend - there are way of using indicators so the signals is neutral but then I found itās always better (for this strategy) to use ASAP as neither timeframes or indicators make any impact since we are playing with the movement of the price only
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Hi @Rossano
You are talking about āmergingā deals with the S10 strategy? What do you mean with that? Is it something we have to do manually?
Thanks
Yes it basically merges two or more deals to average the price of our āoverall price rangeā - what does it means? simple you look at the all chart as one range with a general overall price range.
If we covered already x% deviation with all simultaneous deals and the price keeps moving opposite to our deals we can merge then into one to give the new merged deal a better change to close by TP.
Yes at the moment we can merge the deals manually while in the meantime I suggested an AUTO-Merge feature within a specific price range deviation (% of deviation from the current price)
So far the bot in less than a month made a good 3.5% ROI
You can check the live stats on a real account here - NO SECRETS!
Okay I think Iāve just now understood this strategy haha.
How does it work to manually merge Deals? where is this function?
Thank you for explaining this.
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You are very welcome - simple, go in the open deal panel select the deals you are willing to merge and press MERGE at the top