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Autocorrelation Fade

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Fades outsized bars in a significant reversal regime

StrategiesPrice overlay CanvasDashboardBackgroundSignals
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Language
QuaScript
Engine
Native C++, incremental on live ticks
Rendering
Canvas
Placement
Price overlay
Settings
4
Plots
0
Lines of code
52
Source
presets/strategy/autocorrelation_fade.qs
Autocorrelation Fadeengine result
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quatick-charts · QuaScript engine on synthetic 1-minute bars · drag to pan · scroll to zoom · Run executes the script on the engine (⌘/Ctrl+Enter while editing)

About

Fades outsized one-bar moves, but only while one-bar returns are significantly negatively autocorrelated, i.e. while the market has been giving back its moves. Outside that regime the same moves are left alone. Trades are short-lived by design. Entry: lag-1 autocorrelation below minus the significance band, and the bar's return beyond k standard deviations; the fade is against that bar. Exit: target half the bar's range back, ATR stop, or after `hold` bars. Risk: 1 % per trade. Method: sample autocorrelation with the 2 / sqrt(n) significance band.

0
Plotted series
2
Signal marks
1
Drawings
0
Alert rules
4
Settings
44
Lines of code

What it draws

Price overlay · counted from the engine's plot table and the script's draw calls

Series

No plotted series; the output is drawings and marks.

Signal marks

Fade down moveFade up move

Drawings and chart effects

  • Dashboard tables1 created
  • Background shading

How it runs

From source to the live chart, for this script

  1. 1
    Compile

    The QuaScript compiler checks the 52-line script (44 lines of code) and lowers it for the native C++ engine. Compile errors point at the exact line and column.

  2. 2
    Place

    The header sets overlay = true, so everything is drawn on the price chart, on the same scale as the candles.

  3. 3
    Compute

    The script runs once per bar, oldest to newest. 1 persist variable keeps state (objects, counters) across bars.

  4. 4
    Stay live

    On the terminal the script keeps one live engine session: a tick rolls the forming bar back to its checkpoint and re-executes only that bar, and new bars are appended, so history is never rerun while the market moves. The live result is identical to a full run.

  5. 5
    Render

    The results are handed to the chart: series on Canvas.

  6. 6
    Tune

    4 settings in 4 groups appear in the chart's settings dialog. Changing one reruns the engine with the new value.

Rendering

This script draws on Canvas

WebGPUNot used

The browser's modern GPU API. The chart uploads every line, band and mark of the script as GPU buffers and draws them in one pass, so dense heatmaps and dozens of series stay smooth while you pan and zoom. Without WebGPU support the chart's GPU layer falls back to WebGL 2, then Canvas 2D.

WebGLNot used

GPU drawing through WebGL 2, available in every current browser. Used for chart-native profiles and for series that ask for it with backend = "webgl". Fast for large numbers of bars and wide fills.

CanvasSeries renderer

The browser's 2D drawing API. Text-heavy and object-style output (dashboard tables, zones, tags, segments), candle colors and backgrounds are painted by the QuaScript layer, a Canvas 2D surface over the chart. Series use Canvas when the script's header does not ask for a GPU.

In this script
  • • 2 signal mark types
  • • 1 dashboard tables (QuaScript layer)
  • • background shading (QuaScript layer)

Settings

4 settings, grouped as in the chart's settings dialog

Regime
SettingTypeDefaultRange / optionsId
Autocorrelation windowInteger15030 – 3000autocorrelation_window
Entry
SettingTypeDefaultRange / optionsId
Move size (sigma)Number1.80.5 – 5, step 0.1move_size_sigma
Exit
SettingTypeDefaultRange / optionsId
Maximum bars heldInteger61 – 100maximum_bars_held
Risk
SettingTypeDefaultRange / optionsId
Stop (ATR)Number1.50.3 – 6, step 0.1stop_atr

Script

packages/quascript/presets/strategy/autocorrelation_fade.qs

Header

strategy "Autocorrelation Fade" {
    overlay = true
    capital = 100000
    commission = 0.05
    slippage = 1
    sizing = risk_percent
    max_leverage = 1
    size = 1
    pyramiding = 1
}
Total lines
52
Code lines
44
Comment lines
7
Helper functions
0
Loops
0
Persistent variables
1
Higher-interval feeds
0
Engine plots
0

Built with

Technical analysis (ta.*)
ta.atr
Statistics (stat.*)
stat.autocorrstat.stdev
Math (math.*)
math.logmath.sqrt
Imported modules
viz/premium

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