Timing Strategies
Timing strategy overview
Timing is the most fundamental quantitative strategy type. It focuses on deciding when to buy or sell one or a small number of instruments, using signals such as technical indicators and price patterns to determine entries and exits.
All three examples below are production templates from Create Strategy → Strategy Templates, covering a progression from beginner to advanced:
💡 Use Load to canvas at the bottom of each strategy card to import its configuration into the strategy editor and start a backtest quickly.
Single moving average strategy
Single Moving Average Strategy
The simplest trend-following strategy: go long when the closing price rises above the 100-period moving average, and close the position when it falls below. This long-only strategy does not open short positions and is ideal for learning how to build a workflow.
Turtle breakout strategy
Turtle Breakout Strategy
A classic CTA breakout strategy: go long when price breaks above the upper band of the 20-period Donchian channel, and exit when it breaks below the lower band. ADX > 20 filters false breakouts in ranging markets. The strategy is long-only, allocates 90% of capital, sets no fixed take-profit or stop-loss, and exits on a trend-reversal signal.
SuperTrend system
SuperTrend System
An ATR-adaptive channel strategy: EMA20 is the center line, with dynamic bands two ATR14 values above and below it. Go long when price breaks above the upper band with ADX > 20, and exit when it falls back below EMA20. The strategy trades in both long and short directions.