
The entry signal is only valid for one day. This confirms that price reversed instead of trending lower. An entry should be approximately 5-10 cents above the previous 20 day low.A low of today versus yesterday is too soon, at least four days need to go by between new 20 day lows to be valid. The previous 20 day low in price must have happened a minimum of four days ago on the daily chart.The lower that price falls beneath that previous low the better the risk/reward for this signal. The chart breaks to a new 20 day low in price.(The real time signals for the chart differ in real time intraday versus how they work out by the end of the day on the historical chart). The Donchian channel is a great visual tool for tracking Turtle Soup signals. This chart sets it at 20 days as an example. The Donchian channel is a technical trading indicator that tracks the high and low over a number of periods. The Turtle Soup trading strategy plays the reversions to the mean and signals entries for the times when the price breakout fails.

Most charts will breakout into trends eventually over the long term but this strategy plays the whip saws. With momentum and trend trading, a breakout can fail and price can whipsaw back into the trading range. So when the Turtle Traders bought or sold a breakout and it whipsawed against them and they lost money, she would make money be betting on a breakout failure and reversal. Linda Bradford-Raschke shared the Turtle Soup trading strategy in her book “Street Smarts: High Probability Short-Term Trading Strategies.” Linda Raschke reversed the trend following edge of this trading strategy and created a short-term reversion to the mean swing trading method. This is an inverse strategy to the legendary Turtle traders trend following system that they used to make millions in trending markets.

The Turtle Soup trading strategy was created by legendary trader and Market Wizard Linda Bradford-Raschke. The problem with the Turtle trading strategy is that during breakouts that reverse you can be a dead turtle.
