Heikin-Ashi Trend, Daily
A built-in strategy on Central Command, tested on BloFin history. Thin edge in testing. 1D candles, long and short, category Trend Following.
Rules
Entry. Heikin-Ashi candles are built from the daily candles: close = (open + high + low + close) / 4, open = the average of the previous Heikin-Ashi open and close. On a closed daily candle, go long when the last 1 Heikin-Ashi candle is green and the one before it was red. Shorts mirror it.
Managing the trade. Close a long after 2 red Heikin-Ashi candles in a row; close a short after 2 green.
Stop and target. Stop 3 x ATR(14) on the daily chart from the entry, never moved. No fixed target.
Exact rules
The Heikin-Ashi open is the 3-period EMA of (open + high + low + close) / 4 one candle back, which is the same recursion.
[EXACT RULES]
timeframe: 1D
long entry: ALL(ohlc4 > EMA(3, ohlc4)[1], 1)
long entry: ohlc4[1] < EMA(3, ohlc4)[2]
short entry: ALL(ohlc4 < EMA(3, ohlc4)[1], 1)
short entry: ohlc4[1] > EMA(3, ohlc4)[2]
long exit: ALL(ohlc4 < EMA(3, ohlc4)[1], 2)
short exit: ALL(ohlc4 > EMA(3, ohlc4)[1], 2)
stop: 3 ATR(14)
take profit: none
How it tested
Settings were chosen on 2023-10-01 to 2025-08-01, then judged once on 2025-08-01 to 2026-10-19, which was not looked at while choosing. Figures are after fees, on BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, DOGE, BNB.
| Trades | Return | Profit factor | Worst drop | Win rate | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chosen on | 242 | +30.5% | 1.56 | 8.4% | 35.5% |
| Judged on | 144 | +1.7% | 1.07 | 6.8% | 41.7% |
| Whole period | 386 | +32.7% | 1.38 | 8.7% | 37.8% |
Holding Bitcoin over the same judged period returned -29.0%.
A backtest is not a result. Past results, paper or live, do not guarantee future returns.
Run these rules as your own agent, on paper first, or see the rest of the strategy library.