SME Backtesting [TFO]

3 may 2023

This strategy script is an extension of my Smart Money Essentials (SME) indicator and aims to provide a simplified means of backtesting complex trade models that incorporate a variety of Smart Money Concepts.

Among other things, Smart Money Essentials contains logic for:
- Market structure
- Fair Value Gaps
- Order Blocks
- Breaker Blocks
- Optimal Trade Entries
- HTF Market Structure

The Confluence section can then be utilized to build and test trade models from any combination of the included factors. As a basic example, we could test a strategy that only utilizes market structure. With Manual Exit turned off, we would simply be flipping long on bullish market structure shifts, and reversing short on bearish market structure shifts for the duration of the user-defined session.



As one might expect, such a simple strategy isn't expected to produce very reliable results by itself. However, we could build on these ideas by adding extra layers of Confluence, like looking for entries where Market Structure aligns with Order Block interactions. We could also turn on Manual Exit with a 40 tick stop loss and 80 tick profit target (10 points and 20 points, respectively, for ES futures), for more defined exit criteria.



One could expand on these ideas by adding factors like Fair Value Gaps, HTF Market Structure, etc. Any of the core pieces of SME can be used to build and backtest strategies that would otherwise be extremely tedious to do by hand, and as the SME indicator grows, so too will this backtesting script. Ultimately, the purpose of this is to make Smart Money Concepts more objective and easily testable so that users may better understand where these concepts may perform best.

16 may 2023

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v1.1.0
- Re-enabled the Liquidity setting, as it impacts the size of the Optimal Trade Entry auto-fib

23 may 2023

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v1.1.1
- Fixed an issue where the Optimal Trade Entry wasn't being utilized

7 jul 2023

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v1.2.0
- Added Premium & Discount to the confluence section, in addition to OTE
- Added optional entry delay

28 jul 2023

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v1.3.0
- Breaker Blocks have been updated to act similarly to Order Blocks, with their boxes being extended until mitigated, rejections that can be filtered by the current trend, etc.
- Added optional Rejection Strength parameters to all relevant Confluence features, where previously the default was locked at 1

16 sept 2023

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Updates to Author's Instructions for access. No version change

6 oct 2023

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v1.4.0
- Added a Confluence option to Wait for Rejections. With this enabled, price must form a local swing high/low in the selected POI (if any) in order to meet the Confluence criteria. This can serve as additional confirmation to see if price is potentially respecting said POI
- Removed the Confluence threshold to avoid confusion. It is now automatically calculated based on the selected Confluence factors
- Bug fixes

20 oct 2023

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v1.4.1
- Bug fixes

17 nov 2023

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v1.5.0
- Added Timeframe Continuity (TFC) as a major feature and a Confluence option that may be used in conjunction with all other major indicator features

17 nov 2023

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v1.5.1
- Minor bug fixes regarding MTF Structure and TFC

29 nov 2023

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v1.6.0
- Added dynamic Stop Loss and Profit Target options, in addition to the original fixed values
- Removed Liquidity's dependency on Pivot Strength
- Improved FVG logic and Displacement Strength sensitivity

30 nov 2023

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v1.6.1
- Bug fixes regarding new dynamic Stop Loss and Profit Target options

8 jul

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v1.7.0
- Added analysis tables and filters for Day of Week & Time of Day
- Added Liquidity and External Confluence options
- Added ability to test indicator presets

9 jul

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v1.7.1
- Bug fix regarding table text color

7 ago

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v1.8.0
- Added FVG inversions and OB mitigations as optional confluence factors