{"schemaVersion":"1.0","type":"BacktestEvidence","id":"https://formiq.jp/evidence/supertrend-settings/data.json","evidencePage":"https://formiq.jp/evidence/supertrend-settings","language":"en","article":{"title":"Supertrend Periods and Multipliers: 36 Settings Tested","url":"https://formiq.jp/blog/supertrend-settings","published":"2026-08-24","updated":"2026-08-30"},"author":{"name":"Yuichi Saiki","alternateName":"斉木勇一","url":"https://formiq.jp/about/yuichi-saiki"},"verified":"2026-08-30","question":"Which Supertrend setting moves the result: the period or the multiplier?","finding":"The multiplier. On hourly bars, moving the period from 5 to 30 moved the trade count only from 212 to 207 a year, while moving the multiplier from 1.5 to 5 took it from 408 trades to 80. The spread in average 2025 net pips was 406 across periods and 1,142 across multipliers. Fifteen-minute and hourly bars both had 21 of 36 combinations profitable in both 2024 and 2025; four-hour had all 36 profitable in 2024 but only 10 in 2025. The default period 10 with multiplier 3 returned +1,121.8 pips in 2025 and +1,145.0 in 2024 on hourly bars. Period 30 with multiplier 5 made +2,663.7 pips in 2024 but +52.2 in 2025: the fewer the trades, the more a year swings.","methodology":"Measured with Formiq's backtester. A long fills at the close of the bar where Supertrend turns up and a short where it turns down; the only exit is the opposite turn. No stop, no target, no time exit. Pips are recalculated from each trade's fill prices.","scope":["USDJPY, 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31, with 2024 run identically for comparison","15-minute, hourly and four-hour bars; 6,226 hourly bars in 2025, 24,903 on 15-minute, 1,610 on four-hour","6 periods (5 to 30) x 6 multipliers (1.5 to 5) = 36 combinations, per timeframe and per year","0.3 pip spread, 0.1 lots, zero slippage"],"keyResults":[{"label":"Trade count across period and multiplier, hourly","value":"212 to 207 a year across periods; 408 to 80 across multipliers"},{"label":"Profitable in both years","value":"21 of 36 on 15-minute and hourly; four-hour 36 of 36 in 2024, 10 of 36 in 2025"},{"label":"The default 10/3 on hourly bars","value":"+1,121.8 pips in 2025, +1,145.0 in 2024"}],"limitations":["One pair, two years.","Supertrend implementations differ in how the ATR is averaged (simple or Wilder) and in the band's trailing rule. These figures come from Formiq's.","Entries and exits both fill at bar closes, and the spread is modelled as a flat 0.3 pips for the whole period.","Four-hour combinations trade 26 to 110 times a year, and 26 to 29 at multiplier 5. Win rates and profit factors at that count are wide numbers."]}