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SuperTrend Hedge

The trend picks the side, the gap picks the moment, and both sides share one exit. While the trend is green the bot considers longs only; while it is red, shorts only.

The idea

Put new money where the market is already going.

A plain hedge adds to both sides regardless of direction. This strategy reads a SuperTrend signal and only allows new orders on the side the trend favours. The other side is not closed — it keeps its inventory and works off its existing targets — it simply stops receiving new money until the trend turns.

The effect is fewer orders and materially less capital at risk than an unrestricted hedge, because the bot stops feeding the losing side.

Hover an order to see how it was held

Illustration of the signal logic. Not live market data, and not a performance claim.

How it behaves

The rules, in order.

New orders
Two modes. Continuous reads the trend and tests the gap on every update, so the gap itself spaces the ladder. Only on flip restricts new orders to a trend event — the moment the SuperTrend turns, or the moment a side goes flat while the trend favours it. In testing, flip-only produced roughly a third of the trades and about half the peak capital.
Entry
A side holding nothing enters on the trend alone. Otherwise price must be a set gap away from the newest order still open on that side — longs below it, shorts above it.
The ladder
Each cover measures its gap from the previous cover on the same side; the first cover measures from the initial order. When a take-profit fills, that side steps back a rung.
Frozen side
While the trend favours one side, the other keeps everything it holds and continues working off its existing take-profits — but takes no new orders.
Take profit
Four options: a resting limit at each cover’s own target; trail the peak and close on a retracement; book any cover that is in profit when the trend flips; or book on a flip but only covers that already reached their own target.
Session exit
One combined net result across both sides. The session closes on the net profit target, the stop loss, or the age limit.
Signal source
The SuperTrend direction is read from a candle interval you choose. Orders themselves execute against the live market price — the candle setting decides the trend only, not when the bot acts.
Worked example

A trend that turns.

SuperTrend is green, then flips red

  1. Trend is green. The long side is allowed to open, and adds covers each time price falls a full gap below its newest open order.
  2. The short side is frozen. It still holds what it had, and its resting targets still fill if price reaches them — but no new short orders are placed.
  3. The SuperTrend flips red. New orders now go to the short side only, and the long side freezes in turn.
  4. Each side keeps working its own ladder. The session closes when the combined net result reaches your target.

Illustrative only. Choppy markets that flip the trend repeatedly produce more entries than a single sustained trend.

Coming with futures.

SuperTrend Hedge launches alongside the futures product, included in every package.

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