Trailing Stop-Limit Dip Buyer (TSSL)¶

What it does: Buys a small bounce after the price dips below its 15-minute average, then trails the exit. When the price is below its 15-minute 20-candle average, this follows the price down and buys once it bounces 0.5% off the low.

Style: Bot classics · Difficulty: Beginner · Risk: medium · Ready: 2 of 2 variants

When people use it: It tends to work in choppy, back-and-forth markets.

Where it struggles: It struggles in steep falls, where a 0.5% bounce can happen mid-crash.

Markets it was written for: BTC, ETH, majors. Timeframes: 15m.

Open it in the Strategy Library (on the Strategies page), pick a variant, adjust the settings and press Add to my strategies. It becomes your own strategy: edit, backtest or trade it like any other.

Long¶

Buys a small bounce after the price dips below its 15-minute average, then trails the exit.

Labels: Mean Reversion, Long, Spot, Beginner, Fast

Direction: Buy (long) · Market: spot
Trigger: On candle touch · Main timeframe: Auto (15m)

Entry

IF Price < EMA(20) (15m)
Trailing entry %: 0.5%

Exit: Standard Exit

Trailing take-profit: activation 1%, trail 0.3%
Loss controls: Trailing stop % 3%, Break-even stop after % 0.5%

Settings

Setting	Default	Editable	What changing it does
Bounce before entry %	0.5	Yes	After the signal, the bot waits for the price to turn back by this much before entering. Higher waits for more proof the move has turned, but enters at a worse price and can miss quick turns; lower (or 0) enters sooner, with more risk of catching a move that keeps going.
Exit trail %	0.3	Yes	How far the price may pull back from its best level before the trailing take-profit sells. Tighter locks in gains sooner but exits on small wiggles; wider rides moves further but gives back more.

How it works (as shown in the app)

When the price is below its 15-minute 20-candle average, this follows the price down and buys once it bounces 0.5% off the low.
Once the trade is 1% up, a trailing take-profit follows the price and sells on a 0.3% pullback. There is also a 3% trailing stop, and after a 0.5% gain the stop moves to your entry price.
It tends to work in choppy, back-and-forth markets.
It struggles in steep falls, where a 0.5% bounce can happen mid-crash.
Frequent trades on 15-minute candles: fees take a large share.
After an exit it can re-enter quickly; the bounce wait is what spaces trades out.

Short (perp)¶

Shorts a small drop after the price spikes above its 15-minute average, then trails the exit.

Labels: Mean Reversion, Short, Futures, Fast, Backtest Only

Direction: Sell (short) · Market: swap
Trigger: On candle touch · Main timeframe: Auto (15m)

Entry

IF Price > EMA(20) (15m)
Trailing entry %: 0.5%

Exit: Standard Exit

Trailing take-profit: activation 1%, trail 0.3%
Loss controls: Trailing stop % 3%, Break-even stop after % 0.5%

Settings

Setting	Default	Editable	What changing it does
Bounce before entry %	0.5	Yes	After the signal, the bot waits for the price to turn back by this much before entering. Higher waits for more proof the move has turned, but enters at a worse price and can miss quick turns; lower (or 0) enters sooner, with more risk of catching a move that keeps going.
Exit trail %	0.3	Yes	How far the price may pull back from its best level before the trailing take-profit sells. Tighter locks in gains sooner but exits on small wiggles; wider rides moves further but gives back more.

How it works (as shown in the app)

When the price is above its 15-minute 20-candle average, this follows the price up and shorts once it drops 0.5% off the high.
Once the trade is 1% in profit, a trailing take-profit follows the price and buys back on a 0.3% bounce. There is also a 3% trailing stop, and after a 0.5% gain the stop moves to your entry price.
It tends to work in choppy, back-and-forth markets.
It struggles in steep rallies, where a 0.5% drop can happen mid-surge.
Frequent trades on 15-minute candles: fees take a large share.
After an exit it can re-enter quickly; the 0.5% drop wait is what spaces trades out.
Shorting means you profit if the price falls and lose if it rises.
Suggested leverage is at most 5x. On isolated margin, at 5x the exchange closes the position (liquidation) if the price moves about 19.6% against you, and you lose the margin you put into it. Keep your stop well inside that.
For now this version runs in backtests only; paper and live futures trading are coming later.

Warnings¶

"Backtest only for now: paper and live trading of shorts are coming later.": shown on short variants. They need perpetual or futures pairs.
Variants on On candle touch act while the candle is still forming. The backtest estimates touches inside a candle, so live fills can differ, and a signal can repaint if price turns back before the close.
Some variants suggest leverage. On isolated margin a liquidation loses the margin in that position; keep any stop well inside the liquidation distance (the Trade Builder warns you when it isn't).
Once added, the strategy's conditions get the usual condition checks. Messages show under each condition on the entry / exit conditions screen; setting errors start with the indicator's short name (for example "MACD: Fast must be between 1 and 1000") and block saving, while the other warnings never block saving and repeat in the strategy's Entry or Exit section. See the indicator pages below for each one.
"You already have this strategy with these settings (…). Change a setting to add another copy.": shown on the variant's page in the Strategy Library when you already added this variant with the same settings.

Good to know¶

After you add it, the strategy keeps the library's trigger and an Auto main timeframe; you can change both in the builder. Nothing links it back to the library, except that the builder still shows the library's explanations in the info bubbles.
Changing a setting before adding it also changes the saved name, so you can tell copies apart.
Past results don't predict future ones. Try it in a backtest and on paper before using real money.
Indicators used: EMA.