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Every indicator, scored

The 382 indicators we tested — standard ones traders use plus a few custom edges — ranked by how often each is the best fit for an asset.

What peer-reviewed research says about these indicator families

Fibonacci Pivots

28 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.06

Fisher Transform

20 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

Camarilla Pivots

19 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.01

Projection Bands

18 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

18 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Intraday Momentum Index

17 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

15 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

14 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

14 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

13 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

Detrended Price Osc.

13 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

13 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Keltner Mean-Reversion

11 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

FRAMA 10/30 Cross

11 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

Pivot Points (Standard)

10 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.06

10 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Historical Volatility Regime

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

TEMA 20/50 Cross

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Bollinger Mean-Reversion

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Ultimate Oscillator

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Ehlers Roofing Filter

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

SMA 20/50 Cross

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Fisher Center-of-Gravity

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

Stochastic Fast (5,3)

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.11

Negative Volume Index

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

WaveTrend (8/6/4)

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

McGinley 200 Trend

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

TRIMA 200 Trend

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Supertrend (14,4)

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

Parabolic SAR (fast)

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

SMC: Change of Character

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

McGinley 30 Trend

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Volume Flow Indicator

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Ichimoku TK Cross

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

SMC: Order Block

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Positive Volume Index

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Volume Oscillator

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Volume Zone Oscillator

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Williams Fractals

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Twiggs Money Flow

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

KAMA 10/30 Cross

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Money Flow Index

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

DEMA 20/50 Cross

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.06

Elder Ray (Bull/Bear Power)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.01

Center of Gravity

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

Delta Volume Rising (CVD proxy)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

Standard Error Bands

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

Supertrend Fast (10,2)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Hull MA 100 Trend

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Chandelier Exit

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Gator Oscillator

4 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.07

Bullish Engulfing

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

EMA 13/48 Cross

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Predictive Ranges

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

4 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.0

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

Bandpass Oscillator

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Supertrend (10,3)

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Relative Volume Spike

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

Inside-Bar Breakout

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

ADX Strong Trend

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.02

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

Jurik MA (approx.)

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

Ehlers Cyber Cycle

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

Lorentzian Classification

3 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.0

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.11

Acceleration Bands

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

Trend Regularity Adaptive MA

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

McGinley Dynamic

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Linear Regression Slope

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Williams %R (28)

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Trend Intensity Index

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

Trendlines with Breaks

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

LSMA 10/30 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Holy Grail Confluence

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

3 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.05

Order-Flow Reversion

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Donchian 10 Break

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Advance Trend Pressure

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

DEMA 10/30 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Chande-Kroll Stop (fast)

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Stochastic Momentum Index

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

TEMA 10/30 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

SMC: Equal Highs / Lows

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

Ichimoku (fast)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

WMA 20/50 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Bollinger 10 (x1.5) Break

2 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.12

Ehlers Relative Vigor

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Choppiness Index

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

2 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.06

2 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.09

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Heikin-Ashi Trend

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.04

Stoch RSI (fast)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Williams Alligator

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Fractal Adaptive MA

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.06

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

Instantaneous Trendline

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

FRAMA 100 Trend

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

SMA 10/30 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

McGinley 100 Trend

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Keltner 50 (x2.0)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Chaikin Oscillator

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Supertrend (20,3)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

Andean Oscillator

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Relative Volatility Index

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

Perfect Trend Line

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

SMC: Break of Structure

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Supertrend (7,3)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Know Sure Thing

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Gann HiLo Activator

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

Williams %R (50)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Chande Forecast Osc.

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.11

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Donchian 100 Break

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

RSI Trend (>50)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

McGinley 10/30 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Hull MA 20/80 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

EMA Cascade Rider

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

SMA 15/60 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.38

Least Squares MA

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

UT Bot (ATR Trailing)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Volatility Regime (VIX-style)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

Accumulation/Distribution

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.01

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Derivative Oscillator

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

Klinger Oscillator

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

Schaff Trend Cycle

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.06

Stochastic (10,3)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.02

Price Momentum Oscillator

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Murrey Math Lines

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Holt Double-Exp MA

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

Balance of Power

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Vertical Horizontal Filter

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

Keltner 10 (x1.5)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.1

VuManChu Cipher B

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.11

Delta Volume (CVD proxy)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Chop Zone (EMA-34 angle)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

EMA 10/40 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

Pascal's Weighted MA

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Bollinger 50 (x2.5) Break

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.07

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Chande Kroll Stop

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Nadaraya-Watson Envelope

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

RSI Mean-Reversion

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

Williams %R (7)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Keltner Breakout

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

WMA 10/40 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

True Strength Index

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

SMC: Liquidity Sweep

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

SMC: Fair Value Gap

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Ease of Movement

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.1

Donchian 20 Break

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

Volatility Stop (ATR)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

SMA 50/200 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.38

Even Better Sinewave

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Stochastic Slow (21,5)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Markov Regime (Confirmed)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

Price Volume Trend

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

On-Balance Volume

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

SMA 20/80 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Hull MA 15/60 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Ehlers SuperSmoother

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Accelerator Oscillator

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

Three White Soldiers

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

Arnaud Legoux MA

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

Waddah Attar Explosion

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.01

EMA 20/50 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Stochastic (20,5)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

Pivot Point SuperTrend

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

Trend-Gated Asymmetric

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

Bullish Marubozu

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.02

Bollinger Breakout

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

Premier Stochastic

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Inverse Fisher RSI

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Keltner 20 Break

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.04

Donchian Breakout

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Ehlers Stochastic

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Random Walk Index

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Zero-Lag EMA Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Chaikin Volatility

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.07

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Regularized EMA

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

EMA 50/200 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.38

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

Donchian Midline

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

Awesome Oscillator

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Chande Momentum Osc.

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

Percentage Price Osc.

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Relative Vigor Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

Bollinger Squeeze

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

Chaikin Money Flow

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Kaufman Adaptive MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

Guppy Multiple MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Disparity Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

Pretty Good Oscillator

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

Smoothed Heikin-Ashi

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Sine-Weighted MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Ehlers Decycler

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Relative Momentum Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Adaptive Supertrend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Squeeze Momentum

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

Gaussian Channel

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

Ehlers TrendFlex

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Accumulation Swing Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.1

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Deviation-Scaled MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.11

Correlation Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Exponential Hull MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Triangular Hull MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Smoothed MA (Wilder)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Volume-Weighted EMA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

WMA 10/30 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

ZLEMA 10/30 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

ALMA 10/30 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

VIDYA 10/30 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.38

Aroon Oscillator

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Pring's Special K

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Ultimate Osc (4,8,16)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Elder Bull Power

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

Trade Volume Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Fibonacci Bands

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Std Error Channel

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Heikin-Ashi + EMA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Hull MA 30 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Hull MA 200 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

VIDYA 100 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

VIDYA 200 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

ZLEMA 100 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

ZLEMA 200 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

TRIMA 100 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

FRAMA 200 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

EMA 15/60 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

EMA 20/80 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

SMA 10/40 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

WMA 15/60 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

WMA 20/80 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Hull MA 10/40 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Williams %R (21)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Disparity (100)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Supertrend (7,2)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Supertrend (10,2)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Bollinger 30 (x2.0) Break

0 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.06

0 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.05

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Random Walk Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Cascade Z-Score

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Liquidity Flow Oscillator

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Super Smoother (Ehlers)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16