L1 Breakout Indicator

18. Sept. 2020

Level: 1

Background
A breakout refers to when the price of an asset moves above a resistance area or below a support area. Breakouts indicate that the price may be trending in the direction of the breakout.

Function

L1 Breakout Indicator utilizes highest() and lowest() functions to define breakout levels. Use ema() to draw a trade line to detect the distance to breakout points. By doing that, you will know whether is overbought or oversold. Then, by applying a set of simple threshold inputs, you can locate the long and short entries points.

Key Signal

trade line and its lag version

Pros and Cons

Pros:

1. Simple but powerful to know overbought and oversold regions
2. Flexible input threshold values to adapt various market conditions


Cons:

1. It may satruate for extreme conditions of long and short.
2. Multiple long and short entries may be generated.


Remarks

Just simple

Readme

In real life, I am a prolific inventor. I have successfully applied for more than 60 international and regional patents in the past 12 years. But in the past two years or so, I have tried to transfer my creativity to the development of trading strategies. Tradingview is the ideal platform for me. I am selecting and contributing some of the hundreds of scripts to publish in Tradingview community. Welcome everyone to interact with me to discuss these interesting pine scripts.

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