Order Block strategyvsRSI dip with trend filter strategy
Order Block strategy: Retest of the last opposite candle before a Break of Structure — long bullish OBs, short bearish. · RSI dip with trend filter strategy: Buy oversold RSI dips, but only when price is still above the 50 EMA.
Order Block strategy
Retest of the last opposite candle before a Break of Structure — long bullish OBs, short bearish.
RSI dip with trend filter strategy
Buy oversold RSI dips, but only when price is still above the 50 EMA.
Indicators
- Order Block (swing length 10)
- RSI (period 14)
- EMA (period 50)
Timeframes
Bias
Long & short
Long only
Market fit
Strong directional trends
Filtered, selective
Entry rules
- Long on a bullish OB retest (bull_retest > 0).
- Short on a bearish OB retest.
- RSI(14) below 35 AND
- Close is above the 50-bar EMA — the dip is with the trend, not against it.
Exit rules
- Position closes when the OB is mitigated (price closes through the opposite edge).
- An opposite-side OB retest also invalidates the trade.
- 4% trailing stop, 3-bar cooldown.
- RSI(14) above 65, OR close drops below EMA(50).
- Hard 2.5% stop; 5% take-profit.
Expected behavior
Selective — OBs are sparse and retests are rarer still. The strategy spends most of the time flat and produces concentrated trades around real structure flips.
Cleaner equity curve than vanilla RSI mean reversion because the EMA filter cuts the worst counter-trend trades. Fewer setups, but each one comes with a stacked deck.
Complexity
Which one is right for you?
Derived from the bias, timeframe and indicator profile of each strategy — not a back-test forecast.
When to pick Order Block strategy
- You expect strong directional trends — the thesis is "Retest of the last opposite candle before a Break of Structure — long bullish OBs, short bearish."
- You want a long & short bot on 15m–1d candles with a balanced rule-set.
- You're comfortable monitoring 1 indicator (Order Block (swing length 10)).
Retest of the last opposite candle before a Break of Structure — long bullish OBs, short bearish.
When to pick RSI dip with trend filter strategy
- You expect filtered, selective — the thesis is "Buy oversold RSI dips, but only when price is still above the 50 EMA."
- You want a long-only bot on 15m–4h candles with a balanced rule-set.
- You're comfortable monitoring 2 indicators (RSI (period 14), EMA (period 50)).
Buy oversold RSI dips, but only when price is still above the 50 EMA.
Order Block strategy
Retest of the last opposite candle before a Break of Structure — long bullish OBs, short bearish.
RSI dip with trend filter strategy
Buy oversold RSI dips, but only when price is still above the 50 EMA.
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