What is SwingConfidence™?
SwingConfidence™ is a scoring system that helps us decide position size in swing trading, & take sit-out-in-cash decisions in an objective way.
Here is the SwingConfidence™ tool where you can now calculate the score (on your own) daily:
How to calculate SwingConfidence™?
It takes into account the daily swing state of the 2 benchmark indices (NIFTY, & CNXSMALLCAP). We also need to figure out whether the index is in a weekly upswing or a weekly downswing. It has 3 components:
Weekly Swing
Daily Swing
Concurrence
Let us understand them one-by-one.
Weekly Swing
Use the Simple Swing indicator on weekly charts of NIFTY & CNXSMALLCAP indices to determine whether the index is in a weekly upswing or downswing.
If the color of the weekly ribbon is green, we are in a weekly Upswing.
If the color of the weekly ribbon is red, we are in a weekly Downswing.
Daily Swing
Use the Simple Swing indicator on daily charts of NIFTY & CNXSMALLCAP indices to determine the daily swing state. There are 6 swing states on a daily chart:
Early Upswing (close above red ribbon)
Confirmed upswing (green ribbon)
Upswing under strain (close inside green ribbon)
Early Downswing (close below green ribbon)
Confirmed downswing (red ribbon)
Downswing under strain (close inside red ribbon)
The swing states have already been explained in detail in the Simplifying Swings article here:
Simplifying Swings (Part I)
SwingConfidence™ Scoring
You just need to select the Weekly & Daily Swing states from the dropdowns. If the daily swing states of both the indices are the same, then select the Concurrence dropdowns as *same* (in both indices), else select *different*. The sum of the scores is the final SwingConfidence™ score.
How to use SwingConfidence™ to decide position sizing?
If the SwingConfidence value is 100%, then we go with full position size (1% capital-at-risk).
If the value is 0%, we sit out in cash.
Between these 2 extremes, we reduce/increase our position size accordingly (either 0.25% CAR, or 0.75%CAR).
The TradingView Script
SwingConfidence script for TradingView is here!
The script automatically calculates the swing states of Nifty & Smallcap indices & the final SwingConfidence score.
p.s. Please note that this script will display only on the daily timeframe.
Hope you find this useful.