Awesome Oscillator Strategy

Learn the Awesome Oscillator Strategy: a technical indicator-based approach for identifying market momentum and potential entry/exit points across various marke

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: Momentum Trading

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: strategy

Indicators used

  • Awesome Oscillator

Source video

Decoded from: Awesome Oscillator Strategy Made 189% Profit! (Full Tutorial) by Quant Tactics — watch the original

Strategy overview

The Awesome Oscillator is a momentum histogram that plots the gap between a shorter and a longer average of each bar's midpoint, sitting above or below a zero line as that gap widens or narrows. What makes this entry worth reading carefully is not the indicator but the headline attached to it: the source video is titled "Awesome Oscillator Strategy Made 189% Profit! (Full Tutorial)", from the channel Quant Tactics — a number and a framing that put the weight on a tested outcome rather than on a discretionary chart read.

That framing raises a question the indicator itself cannot answer: which Awesome Oscillator strategy? The AO is unusual in that it supports several mutually incompatible signal conventions — the zero-line cross, the twin-peaks divergence pattern, and the saucer — and they trigger at different moments, hold for different durations, and fail in different ways. A performance figure belongs to whichever convention was tested, together with the instrument, the timeframe, the date range and the cost assumptions behind it; the same indicator run under a different convention is a different strategy with a different equity curve. A bare percentage carries none of that, which makes a headline return a starting point for investigation rather than a conclusion.

No mechanical rule set was extracted for this entry, so what this page offers is the concept and the source rather than a decoded specification. The "Full Tutorial" framing suggests the chosen convention and its settings are walked through on screen, which is where the actual definition lives — and reproducing that test on your own data is the only way to know what the number is worth.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Awesome Oscillator?

It is a momentum histogram that measures the difference between a short-term and a longer-term average of each bar's midpoint, oscillating around a zero line to show whether short-term momentum is running ahead of or behind the longer-term trend.

Is there one standard Awesome Oscillator strategy?

No. The AO is traded through several distinct conventions — zero-line crosses, twin-peaks divergence, and the saucer pattern — and they produce different entries on the same chart. Any description of "the AO strategy" is really a description of one of these branches, so it matters which one a given video is teaching.

Does the 189% figure in the video title mean the strategy works?

That figure is the claim made in the source video's own title, not an independently verified or reproduced result. A return percentage on its own does not state the instrument, the period, the number of trades, the drawdown along the way, or whether spread and commission were included — all of which decide whether a result is meaningful.

How can I evaluate an Awesome Oscillator approach before trading it?

Define the exact signal convention you intend to use, then backtest it on historical data for your own instrument and timeframe, with realistic costs, and look at drawdown and trade count alongside total return. Strategy Decoder catalogs strategies sourced from trading videos so you can trace the original explanation and assess the idea on TradingView yourself.

About this strategy page

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