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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.

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Fibonacci Pivots

22 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

22 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.38

Camarilla Pivots

18 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.01

Fisher Transform

18 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

Intraday Momentum Index

17 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

14 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Detrended Price Osc.

13 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

12 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Projection Bands

11 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

11 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

10 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Historical Volatility Regime

10 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

10 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

10 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

9 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

Keltner Mean-Reversion

9 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

9 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

Stochastic Fast (5,3)

9 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.11

Ultimate Oscillator

9 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

TEMA 20/50 Cross

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

8 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Money Flow Index

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

SMC: Change of Character

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Pivot Points (Standard)

7 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

Volume Oscillator

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Supertrend Fast (10,2)

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Negative Volume Index

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

McGinley 100 Trend

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Ichimoku TK Cross

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Bullish Engulfing

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.11

McGinley 30 Trend

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

6 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

Schaff Trend Cycle

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.06

Positive Volume Index

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

FRAMA 10/30 Cross

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

TRIMA 200 Trend

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Williams Fractals

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

RSI Trend (>50)

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Supertrend (14,4)

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

KAMA 10/30 Cross

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

Chande-Kroll Stop (fast)

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Holy Grail Confluence

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

SMA 20/50 Cross

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

Bollinger Mean-Reversion

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

5 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.06

Supertrend (7,3)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Elder Ray (Bull/Bear Power)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

Center of Gravity

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.0

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Lorentzian Classification

4 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.01

Predictive Ranges

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

Williams %R (50)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

McGinley 200 Trend

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Chaikin Oscillator

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Twiggs Money Flow

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

McGinley Dynamic

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Linear Regression Slope

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Parabolic SAR (fast)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Fisher Center-of-Gravity

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

Volatility Stop (ATR)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Chandelier Exit

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Volume Flow Indicator

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

WaveTrend (8/6/4)

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

Order-Flow Reversion

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Ehlers Roofing Filter

4 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Bandpass Oscillator

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

DEMA 20/50 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

SMC: Order Block

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Accumulation Swing Index

3 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.1

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Relative Volume Spike

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

SMC: Liquidity Sweep

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

Ehlers Relative Vigor

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Stochastic Momentum Index

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

Inside-Bar Breakout

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

Delta Volume Rising (CVD proxy)

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Relative Volatility Index

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Donchian 10 Break

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

TEMA 10/30 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Stoch RSI (fast)

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

LSMA 10/30 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Hull MA 100 Trend

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

Trend Regularity Adaptive MA

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Hull MA 20/80 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Gator Oscillator

3 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.08

DEMA 10/30 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Supertrend (20,3)

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Supertrend (10,3)

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Trend Intensity Index

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

On-Balance Volume

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Three White Soldiers

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

EMA 13/48 Cross

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

3 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.01

RSI Mean-Reversion

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Nadaraya-Watson Envelope

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

Murrey Math Lines

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Waddah Attar Explosion

2 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.0

True Strength Index

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Holt Double-Exp MA

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.03

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

Heikin-Ashi Trend

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.04

ADX Strong Trend

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

Jurik MA (approx.)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

Relative Vigor Index

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

Chaikin Money Flow

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Keltner 20 Break

2 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.04

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

Ehlers Cyber Cycle

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

VuManChu Cipher B

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Acceleration Bands

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

FRAMA 100 Trend

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Standard Error Bands

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

SMA 10/30 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Pascal's Weighted MA

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Keltner 50 (x2.0)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Instantaneous Trendline

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

SMC: Fair Value Gap

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

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

WMA 10/40 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Know Sure Thing

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

Hull MA 15/60 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

2 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.04

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Derivative Oscillator

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.06

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Trendlines with Breaks

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Klinger Oscillator

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

Trend-Gated Asymmetric

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Markov Regime (Confirmed)

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

SMA 15/60 Cross

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Least Squares MA

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

Bullish Marubozu

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.03

Donchian Breakout

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Advance Trend Pressure

2 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

SMC: Equal Highs / Lows

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Squeeze Momentum

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.09

Heikin-Ashi + EMA

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.01

Price Momentum Oscillator

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.05

Bollinger 10 (x1.5) Break

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.12

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

SMA 10/40 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Chande Forecast Osc.

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Fractal Adaptive MA

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.07

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

ZLEMA 200 Trend

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Donchian Midline

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Stochastic (10,3)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.11

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Perfect Trend Line

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

Bollinger 50 (x2.5) Break

1 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.07

Chande Kroll Stop

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Williams %R (7)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

Keltner Breakout

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.19

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

McGinley 10/30 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

Relative Momentum Index

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Delta Volume (CVD proxy)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

Donchian 20 Break

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

SMA 50/200 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.38

Even Better Sinewave

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Gann HiLo Activator

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Awesome Oscillator

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

Ichimoku (fast)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Ehlers Stochastic

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Williams %R (28)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Andean Oscillator

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Ehlers SuperSmoother

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

Bollinger Breakout

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

Random Walk Index

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Volatility Regime (VIX-style)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Ehlers TrendFlex

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.34

Premier Stochastic

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

UT Bot (ATR Trailing)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Williams Alligator

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

Hull MA 10/40 Cross

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Stochastic (20,5)

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.17

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

Volume Zone Oscillator

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Ease of Movement

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Accumulation/Distribution

1 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

EMA 50/200 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

EMA 20/50 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

WMA 20/50 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.33

Chande Momentum Osc.

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

Percentage Price Osc.

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Balance of Power

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

Bollinger Squeeze

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Price Volume Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

Kaufman Adaptive MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

Arnaud Legoux MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

Zero-Lag EMA Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Guppy Multiple MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.35

Accelerator Oscillator

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

Choppiness Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.05

Disparity Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

Pretty Good Oscillator

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

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 0.24

Vertical Horizontal Filter

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.1

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

Adaptive Supertrend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Gaussian Channel

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

Inverse Fisher RSI

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

Chaikin Volatility

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Deviation-Scaled MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Correlation Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

0 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.1

Exponential Hull MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Triangular Hull MA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.13

Smoothed MA (Wilder)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Regularized EMA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

Volume-Weighted EMA

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

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 0.29

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

Stochastic Slow (21,5)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

Ultimate Osc (4,8,16)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.08

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

Elder Bull Power

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.2

0 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.08

Trade Volume Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

Fibonacci Bands

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

Std Error Channel

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.26

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

Hull MA 30 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.12

Hull MA 200 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.25

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.23

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.18

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

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 0.19

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.28

ZLEMA 100 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

TRIMA 100 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.21

FRAMA 200 Trend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

EMA 10/40 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

EMA 15/60 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

EMA 20/80 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

SMA 20/80 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

WMA 15/60 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

WMA 20/80 Cross

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.37

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.22

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.31

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 0.26

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 0.17

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.29

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

Donchian 100 Break

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

Keltner 10 (x1.5)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.1

Bollinger 30 (x2.0) Break

0 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.06

Random Walk Index

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.24

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.14

Cascade Z-Score

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.27

Liquidity Flow Oscillator

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

EMA Cascade Rider

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.32

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.3

Pivot Point SuperTrend

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.36

Chop Zone (EMA-34 angle)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.16

Super Smoother (Ehlers)

0 best fits · avg Sharpe 0.15

0 best fits · avg Sharpe -0.04