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Momentum Term Pullback
Admin's Choice NewFreeLong-horizon trend, short-horizon dip, entry on the turn
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- Language
- QuaScript
- Engine
- Native C++, incremental on live ticks
- Rendering
- Canvas
- Placement
- Price overlay
- Settings
- 9
- Plots
- 0
- Lines of code
- 82
- Source
- presets/strategy/momentum_term_pullback.qs
About
Buys dips that the long horizons have not noticed. Momentum is measured on a short and a long horizon band as volatility-scaled t-statistics (return over the horizon divided by the volatility expected over it). When the long band is strongly positive while the short band has gone negative, price is pulling back inside an established trend; the entry waits until the short band turns back up, so the pullback is already ending. Shorts mirror this. Entry: long-band t above `long_t`, short-band t below `-dip_t` within the last `memory` bars and now rising for two bars (mirror for shorts). Exit: ATR stop under the pullback low, target `reward` R, or the long band losing its sign. Risk: 1 % per trade.
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
Drawings and chart effects
- Dashboard tables1 created
- Candle colors
How it runs
From source to the live chart, for this script
- 1Compile
The QuaScript compiler checks the 82-line script (72 lines of code) and lowers it for the native C++ engine. Compile errors point at the exact line and column.
- 2Place
The header sets
overlay = true, so everything is drawn on the price chart, on the same scale as the candles. - 3Compute
The script runs once per bar, oldest to newest. Each bar also runs one loop (1 for). 2
persistvariables keep state (objects, counters) across bars. Helper function:band_t(). - 4Stay 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.
- 5Render
The results are handed to the chart: series on Canvas.
- 6Tune
9 settings in 3 groups appear in the chart's settings dialog. Changing one reruns the engine with the new value.
Rendering
This script draws on Canvas
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.
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.
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.
- • 2 signal mark types
- • 1 dashboard tables (QuaScript layer)
- • candle colors (QuaScript layer)
Settings
9 settings, grouped as in the chart's settings dialog
| Setting | Type | Default | Range / options | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short band from | Integer | 3 | 1 – 50 | short_band_from |
| Short band to | Integer | 12 | 2 – 100 | short_band_to |
| Long band from | Integer | 60 | 10 – 500 | long_band_from |
| Long band to | Integer | 160 | 20 – 1000 | long_band_to |
| Volatility window | Integer | 200 | 20 – 5000 | volatility_window |
| Setting | Type | Default | Range / options | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trend strength (t) | Number | 1 | 0.2 – 4, step 0.1 | trend_strength_t |
| Pullback depth (t) | Number | 0.6 | 0.1 – 4, step 0.1 | pullback_depth_t |
| Pullback memory (bars) | Integer | 8 | 1 – 100 | pullback_memory_bars |
| Setting | Type | Default | Range / options | Id |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Target (R) | Number | 2.5 | 0.5 – 10, step 0.1 | target_r |
Script
packages/quascript/presets/strategy/momentum_term_pullback.qs
Header
strategy "Momentum Term Pullback" {
overlay = true
capital = 100000
commission = 0.05
slippage = 1
sizing = risk_percent
max_leverage = 1
size = 1
pyramiding = 1
}- Total lines
- 82
- Code lines
- 72
- Comment lines
- 9
- Helper functions
- 1
- Loops
- 1
- Persistent variables
- 2
- Higher-interval feeds
- 0
- Engine plots
- 0
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ta.atrta.bars_sinceta.highestta.loweststat.stdevmath.coalescemath.logmath.maxmath.minmath.roundmath.sqrtviz/premium
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