Archived — below our codifiability bar

Supertrend Indicator

Explore a Supertrend indicator for buy/sell signals on TradingView. Learn how this technical indicator identifies trends across various markets and timeframes.

Published · Archived · Methodology: Technical Indicators

  • Algo score: 70%
  • Discretionary score: 30%

This strategy was decoded from a public trading video but did not clear Strategy Decoder's codifiability bar: the extraction could not pin the rules down precisely enough to be turned into a reviewable specification. It is kept here as a reference post-mortem rather than as a strategy you can trade or backtest.

Part of: Supertrend Strategies

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: indicator

Indicators mentioned

  • Supertrend

Why this strategy was archived

Supertrend is a trend-following overlay built on ATR: it plots a single line that flips from below price to above it as volatility-scaled bands are breached, producing an unambiguous long/short state at every bar. Its appeal is exactly that binary clarity — one line, one direction, no interpretation required. This entry decodes the Supertrend discussion in Trading with DaviddTech's video "Trader Review: Supertrend 3578% Profit Insane Buy Sell Indicator On Tradingview!", which walks through the indicator as a buy/sell signal tool on TradingView.

**Why this entry is archived.** Our extraction scored this video below the codifiability bar. The material does give us structure — Supertrend is identified as the core signal generator, and the walkthrough is clear enough to follow on a chart — but the surrounding rule set stayed incomplete: the extractor could not pin down settings, confirmation conditions, stop and target logic, or the timeframe and market context the signals were meant to operate in. Signals are shown and discussed, yet not specified precisely enough to automate without guesswork. We also do not carry forward performance figures we cannot tie to an extracted, reproducible rule set. An entry that would require us to fill in the missing pieces ourselves does not belong in the active catalog, because whatever we published would be our strategy, not the video's.

**What it still offers.** As an orientation to Supertrend, the video does the useful work: it shows what the flip looks like in practice, how the line behaves through trends and through chop, and how traders read it on a live TradingView chart. That visual grounding is a reasonable starting point if Supertrend is new to you. To trade it mechanically you need the parameters and exit logic this entry could not extract — the Supertrend and trend-following indicator hubs list decoded entries where those pieces were fully specified.

Source video

Decoded from: Trader Review: Supertrend 3578% Profit Insane Buy Sell Indicator On Tradingview! by Trading with DaviddTech — watch the original

Frequently asked questions

Why is this Supertrend entry archived?

Our extraction identified Supertrend as the core indicator but could not recover a complete rule set — settings, confirmation, stops, targets and timeframe were referenced or shown rather than specified. It scored below the codifiability bar we require for the active catalog.

What is the Supertrend indicator?

A trend-following overlay based on Average True Range. It plots volatility-scaled bands around price and flips its line from support to resistance (and back) as those bands are breached, giving a single binary trend state per bar.

Is the video still worth watching?

Yes, as an introduction. It shows how Supertrend behaves on a live TradingView chart, which is a sensible first step before deciding whether to build a system around it.

Where can I find codifiable Supertrend strategies on Strategy Decoder?

The Supertrend and trend-following indicator hubs, along with the active catalog, list decoded video strategies where full entry, exit and parameter rules were successfully extracted.

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