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Hawkes Shock Reversal

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Buys the end of a selling cascade, sells the end of a frenzy

StrategiesPrice overlay CanvasDashboardSignals
quascriptstrategiesstrategyreversalhawkesshocks

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Language
QuaScript
Engine
Native C++, incremental on live ticks
Rendering
Canvas
Placement
Price overlay
Settings
7
Plots
1
Lines of code
64
Source
presets/strategy/hawkes_shock_reversal.qs
Hawkes Shock Reversalengine result
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About

Buys the end of a selling cascade and sells the end of a buying frenzy. Large moves are counted as events in a self-exciting Hawkes process, so clusters build intensity and the intensity then decays. When a cluster of down shocks has decayed (calm returning) and price closes back above a short mean, the forced selling is likely done. Entry: down-shock intensity peaked above the cluster level and has since decayed below the calm level, close above the 10-bar EMA (mirror for shorts). Exit: stop below the cascade low, target `reward` R, time stop. Risk: 1 % per trade. Method: Hawkes (1971).

1
Plotted series
4
Signal marks
1
Drawings
0
Alert rules
7
Settings
56
Lines of code

What it draws

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

Series

  • Line1
    10-bar EMA
Legend
10-bar EMA

Signal marks

Selling cascadeBuying frenzyLong after cascadeShort after frenzy

Drawings and chart effects

  • Dashboard tables1 created

How it runs

From source to the live chart, for this script

  1. 1
    Compile

    The QuaScript compiler checks the 64-line script (56 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. 3 persist variables keep 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

    7 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
  • • 1 plotted series
  • • 4 signal mark types
  • • 1 dashboard tables (QuaScript layer)

Settings

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

Shocks
SettingTypeDefaultRange / optionsId
Volatility windowInteger10020 – 2000volatility_window
Shock size (sigma)Number21 – 5, step 0.1shock_size_sigma
Process
SettingTypeDefaultRange / optionsId
Decay per barNumber0.120.01 – 0.8, step 0.01decay_per_bar
Signals
SettingTypeDefaultRange / optionsId
Cluster levelNumber1.20.2 – 10, step 0.1cluster_level
Calm levelNumber0.30.01 – 5, step 0.01calm_level
Risk
SettingTypeDefaultRange / optionsId
Target (R)Number20.5 – 10, step 0.1target_r
Maximum bars heldInteger482 – 500maximum_bars_held

Script

packages/quascript/presets/strategy/hawkes_shock_reversal.qs

Header

strategy "Hawkes Shock Reversal" {
    overlay = true
    capital = 100000
    commission = 0.05
    slippage = 1
    sizing = risk_percent
    max_leverage = 1
    size = 1
    pyramiding = 1
}
Total lines
64
Code lines
56
Comment lines
7
Helper functions
0
Loops
0
Persistent variables
3
Higher-interval feeds
0
Engine plots
1

Built with

Technical analysis (ta.*)
ta.emata.highestta.lowest
Statistics (stat.*)
stat.stdev
Microstructure kernels (hft.*)
hft.hawkes
Math (math.*)
math.log
Imported modules
viz/premium

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