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This research summary explains a dynamic firm model in which companies can expand or shrink their operating scale, but face adjustment costs. Expansion and contraction options alter exposure to productivity shocks: the ability to reduce scale can buffer…
This indicator description explains a charting method for displaying candles from a larger timeframe as filled rectangles. The rectangles use a fill-drawing buffer, with the BrainTrend1 indicator determining the colors: the candle body uses one color for…
The Donchian Channel is presented as a way to track price movement and trend while marking potential support and resistance. For a selected lookback of prior bars, the indicator calculates the highest high, lowest low, and their midpoint. The document gives…
The document describes a simple price/volume indicator that divides price by volume and uses a simple moving average as its price input. It offers only a brief description of the calculation and does not specify a formula for the averaging period, signal…
The document describes an adaptive version of the Double Exponential Moving Average (DEMA) that uses Jurik Volty to adjust its behavior. It presents adaptivity as a natural fit for some moving-average indicators and compares the adaptive version with a…
This Expert Advisor uses changes in the direction of a weighted oscillator to generate trading signals. It buys when the oscillator turns upward and sells when it turns downward, with each signal evaluated after a bar closes. A higher-timeframe indicator is…
UniOscillator is an RSI-based technical indicator that colors overbought and oversold regions. Its settings allow users to choose the calculation period, applied price from a set of supported price types, and upper and lower boundaries. The display color can…
The document describes a trading-platform script that calculates the largest lot size that can be opened using all free margin currently available in an account. It displays the calculated size in the chart’s upper-right corner for a default period of ten…
The document outlines an Expert Advisor that uses changes in the color of the Directed Movement indicator’s cloud as its trading signal. A signal is generated when a bar closes and the cloud color has changed, so the method relies on confirmed bar data…
The document describes a Reverse MACD indicator that estimates the price required on the next bar for the MACD line and its signal line to intersect. This projected crossover level may help traders approximate prices for pending orders. The idea reverses the…
The indicator described here displays the standard Commodity Channel Index as a histogram after rounding its values to selected increments. Available settings range from no rounding through division by progressively larger values, including a coarse setting…
This indicator description explains a way to plot hourly pivot support and resistance levels. It calculates the first three resistance levels and first three support levels using either a standard pivot-point formula or Fibonacci-based levels, with the user…
This note describes a modification to the Stochastic RVI signaling approach attributed to John Ehlers. The original method uses a trigger line that the document characterizes as functioning like an exponential moving average. Although that trigger may be…
This swing trading Expert Advisor uses a Percentage_Crossover_Channel indicator to generate signals in one of two ways. In channel mode, a bar’s low crossing or touching the lower boundary triggers a buy, while its high crossing or touching the upper…
This document describes an Expert Advisor that trades signals from the TSICloud indicator. It opens a trade when a bar closes and the indicator cloud changes color. An input setting can invert the signal direction, allowing the system to trade against the…
The document describes an automated trailing-stop manager for MetaTrader 4. It monitors open positions and, after a chosen profit condition is reached, moves the stop loss as price advances favorably. Users configure the activation point, the distance…
The indicator overlays a selected symbol’s price bars in a separate window beneath the chart where it is launched. The displayed symbol can be chosen through an input parameter, and multiple copies can be configured to examine different instruments within…
The document outlines a MetaTrader 5 expert-advisor utility for retrieving a closed market trade by its position counting backward from the newest trade. An index of zero refers to the latest qualifying trade, while increasing the index selects progressively…
This Expert Advisor provides a framework for testing whether the previous trading day’s direction predicts continuation or reversal on a selected weekday. Users can choose weekdays and compare entries that follow or oppose the prior day’s move. Positions may…
The document outlines an automated recovery system that begins with a buy order. If price rises, the order is closed; if price falls by a configured distance, the system opens a sell. If the overall profit target has not been reached and price reverses…
The tool estimates the risk associated with a proposed position by combining its lot size with a chosen stop-loss level. A user marks a virtual stop on a chart, then receives a percentage risk estimate and a monetary risk figure. The inputs also distinguish…
This document describes an ATR-based technical indicator that allows users to choose among multiple smoothing algorithms and shift the plotted values horizontally. In addition to common moving-average methods—simple, exponential, smoothed, and linearly…
This document describes a MACD histogram indicator that displays the difference between the MACD line and its signal line using changing colors. The colors are intended to make crossovers, movement across the zero line, and shifts in trend direction or…
Aroon Horn is described as a trend-direction indicator built from the Aroon indicator. It aims to filter minor price fluctuations and displays bullish, bearish, and filtered or neutral readings with different colors. The user can adjust the calculation…