The Ichimoku_v8 strategy is an implementation of the Ichimoku Cloud trading strategy. Here's a breakdown of what the strategy does:
It defines a minimal_roi (minimum return on investment) which is set to 100%. This means that when a trade reaches a profit of 100%, it will be closed automatically.
It sets a stoploss value of -1.
This indicates that there is no fixed stop loss for the trades.
It specifies the ticker_interval as '4h', which means that the strategy operates on 4-hour candlestick data. The informative_pairs method returns an empty list, indicating that there are no additional pairs required for information. The populate_indicators method calculates various indicators based on the provided dataframe, including the Ichimoku Cloud components: tenkan, kijun, senkou_a, senkou_b, cloud_green, and cloud_red. The populate_buy_trend method populates the 'buy' column of the dataframe when certain conditions are met. These conditions include the tenkan line crossing above the kijun line, and the close price being above senkou_a and senkou_b. The populate_sell_trend method populates the 'sell' column of the dataframe when certain conditions are met. These conditions include the senkou_b line crossing above the senkou_a line, the close price being below senkou_a and senkou_b, and the cloud color being red. In summary, the Ichimoku_v8 strategy uses the Ichimoku Cloud indicator to generate buy and sell signals based on the crossover of various lines and the color of the cloud.