Buying the dips is a relatively easy automated trading strategy that can return impressive profits, especially during uptrend times. Not all price drops are for buying, though. This trading system is based on a multi time frame buy-the-dip approach to optimize each trade.
The strategy catches sudden price drops on a 1-hr time frame when the price increases significantly in the last 12 hours. During steep uptrends, profit-taking price actions result in flash crashes that provide great opportunity to enter at convenient prices.
Buy Condition
The setup of the script is optimized on a 30 min time frame. You can adjust the parameters to fit different time frames.
The system gets a buy signal when
- the price drops 1% from the two previous candles (1 hour time frame = two 30-min candles)
- the price is up 3% from the last 12 hours (twenty-four 30-min candles equal the desired time frame)
Sell Condition
Each trade comes with a stop loss of 3% and a take profit of 4%.
This setup has been optimized, running over 150 backtests on more than 20 different crypto trading pairs.
The strategy assumes each order to trade 30% of the available capital. A trading fee of 0.1% is taken into account. The fee is aligned to the base fee applied on Binance, which is the largest cryptocurrency exchange.