A 6-hour Bitcoin trend-rider built on Heikin-Ashi structure: it only enters when several HA candles grow in the same direction — bodies expanding, wicks one-sided — behind a 200-EMA regime filter. Then it does the hard part: no take-profit cap, so a winner rides the whole trend and exits only on the opposite signal. Trades both sides — long in uptrends, short in downtrends — bot-ready, and free.
Heikin-Ashi candles smooth out the noise so a real trend shows up as a clean run of same-colour, growing candles. This strategy reads that run directly — on the 6H timeframe — and only acts when the momentum is unmistakable.
Every candle in the run must close in the trend direction — all bullish (for a long) or all bearish (for a short). Mixed colours = no trade.
A long run wants little-to-no lower wick; a short run wants no upper wick. A clean HA body with the wick on the trend side signals real, one-directional pressure.
Each candle's body — and its trend-side wick — must be bigger than the one before it. The move has to be accelerating, not fading.
Longs only fire above a rising 200-EMA; shorts only below a falling one. This is the key edge — it stops the system from fighting Bitcoin's long uptrends.
The pattern is computed inside a 6H security call, so it's correct on any chart timeframe. All the account mechanics — $10k fixed size, commission, slippage, standard-OHLC fills — are embedded in the script, so what you backtest is what you get.
No fixed take-profit. A long is held for as long as the trend holds — often months — because the whole edge lives in a handful of huge rides. Capping them with a TP throws that away.
The position closes — and reverses — when the mirror pattern fires in the other direction (a growing bearish run below a falling EMA). Runs both sides, always in the direction of the 6H trend: long above a rising 200-EMA, short below a falling one.
Signals evaluate on the 6H HA series but orders fill on standard OHLC — so the backtest can't cheat by filling at synthetic Heikin-Ashi prices.
Built and validated on BYBIT BTCUSD.P (perpetual). The same signal logic applies on any BTC book — spot or perp.
Clean entry / exit alerts (action, symbol, price) for 3Commas, Cornix, or any custom webhook — including the free CryptoScope platform, which executes them on Bybit or Binance.
TradingView Strategy Tester results — BTC 6H HA Direction on Bybit BTCUSD.P (perp), 6H, Feb 2019 – Jul 2026 (~7.4 years), long + short, $10,000 fixed position size.
| Year | Trades | Return (6H, Bybit BTCUSD.P) |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 (from Feb) | 7 | +158.8% |
| 2020 | 9 | +26.3% |
| 2021 | 9 | +336.5% |
| 2022 (BTC bear) | 12 | +2.0% |
| 2023 | 7 | +10.4% |
| 2024 | 8 | +66.1% |
| 2025 | 9 | +82.5% |
| 2026 (partial) | 8 | +19.6% |
| Avg / full year 2019–2025 | 69 total | ~97% |
*Average of complete calendar years 2019–2025 (partial 2026 shown but excluded from the average). Overall: +702% total return (+$70,208 on a $10,000 account) over ~7.4 years across 69 trades, profit factor 3.92, max drawdown 10.2%. Win rate is 39% — and that is by design: a two-sided trend-rider takes many small opposite-signal losses and lets a few enormous winners run (2021 alone returned +337%), with an average winner ~6× the size of an average loser. Note 2022: where a long-only trend system bled through the bear market, the two-sided version stayed green (+2%) by shorting the downtrend. That is why profit factor, payoff and drawdown matter far more than win rate, and why returns are lumpy year to year. Tested on a fixed $10,000 position size, 0.075% commission per side, standard-OHLC fills. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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Get Free Access on TradingViewBy design. The growing-Heikin-Ashi pattern plus the 200-EMA regime filter is a high bar, so signals are relatively rare — and because it runs both directions, it fires roughly twice as often as a one-sided version. Like all trend-riders, most trades are small opposite-signal losses while a few winners ride for months. The 3.92 profit factor and ~6× payoff (avg win vs avg loss) are the numbers that matter — not win rate.
Because the edge is the long rides. A fixed take-profit would cap the exact months-long moves (like 2021's +337%) that make the strategy work. It exits — and reverses — on the opposite signal instead.
Bitcoin on the 6H timeframe — built and validated on Bybit BTCUSD.P (perpetual). It runs both long and short — long above a rising 200-EMA, short below a falling one — always trading with the 6H trend.
Yes. It fires clean entry/exit webhook alerts compatible with 3Commas, Cornix, or any custom webhook — including the free CryptoScope platform, which executes them on Bybit or Binance with managed TP/SL.
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Risk disclosure: Crypto trading involves substantial risk of loss. Backtested performance is hypothetical, does not account for all real-world conditions, and does not guarantee future results. Returns shown are on a fixed position size and are lumpy year to year. Nothing here is financial advice.