SuperTrend Indicator Strategy

Learn about a trading strategy based on the SuperTrend indicator. This strategy promises significant net profit and is applicable across various markets and tim

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: Supertrend Strategies

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
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Indicators used

  • SuperTrend

Source video

Decoded from: SuperTrend Indicator Strategy | 💰$315,790 Net Profit! by Ali Casey | StatOasis — watch the original

Strategy overview

SuperTrend is an ATR-based trailing band that flips between a long state and a short state whenever price closes through it. That flip mechanism carries a consequence worth stating before anything else: a system driven by the indicator alone is never flat. Each exit is simultaneously the entry into the opposite position, so the account is continuously reversed rather than moved in and out of the market — exposure is effectively permanent, and the equity curve is one unbroken chain of trades rather than a set of discrete, independently chosen setups.

This entry comes from Ali Casey's video on the StatOasis channel, whose title leads with a net profit figure of $315,790. Read through the always-in-the-market lens, a single cumulative P&L number on a reversal system describes the endpoint of that chain and nothing about its shape: the same total can come from a handful of long trend runs that carried the whole result, or from a grind in which trending gains repeatedly financed the whipsaw losses of the flat stretches in between. The interesting question for a reversal model is not how much the chain ended up worth but what proportion of its trades were the market actually trending — and a headline figure cannot answer that.

The transcript behind this page does not specify the ATR lookback or multiplier the video uses, and no rule set was extracted for it, so treat this as a pointer to the source rather than a specification you could implement from. If you want to work with the idea, the honest starting point is to reproduce the plain flip logic yourself over both trending and sideways periods and see how the trade chain behaves when the market stops cooperating — that is where an always-positioned model shows its real cost.

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supertrend indicator · trading strategy · technical indicators · swing trading · day trading · trend following · stock trading strategy · forex strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is the SuperTrend indicator?

SuperTrend is a trend-following overlay built on Average True Range: it plots a trailing band offset from price by a multiple of ATR, and switches between a bullish and a bearish state each time price closes through that band.

Does a SuperTrend strategy ever stay out of the market?

Not by default. The indicator is always in one of two states, so a strategy that simply follows its flips is always positioned — every exit doubles as an entry in the opposite direction. Adding a flat state requires an extra condition, such as a volatility, session, or higher-timeframe filter that overrides the flip.

What ATR settings does this version of the SuperTrend strategy use?

The source video does not specify the ATR period or multiplier in the material available for this page. Those two inputs materially change how often the band flips, so any figures quoted in the video apply only to whatever configuration was tested there.

How should I evaluate a SuperTrend strategy before using it?

Test it across both trending and ranging periods rather than a single favourable stretch, and look at trade count and drawdown alongside any profit figure — a reversal system's weakness shows up in sideways markets. Strategy Decoder catalogues strategies presented in video sources so you can evaluate the concept and test it yourself on TradingView.

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