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This brief document identifies an indicator called SessionRangeBreakout and says its author uses breakouts from the Asian trading range when trading gold. It provides a little context for the indicator’s intended market and general approach: define a session…
The document presents a variation on MACD signals that uses Bollinger Band Stops in place of the conventional signal line. It also describes a risk-percentage setting that affects how quickly the stops respond: a smaller risk percentage makes them react…
This MetaTrader 5 indicator adapts an earlier MetaTrader 4 tool that searches price history for candle sequences resembling a selected recent pattern. It uses dynamic time warping (DTW) to identify candidate matches and presents possible future price paths…
ColorMFI_X20 is a chart indicator that displays twenty Money Flow Index lines in one window, using sequential periods that begin at a configurable starting period and advance by a configurable step. Each line can be colored according to its position relative…
The document identifies logarithmic Garman–Klass volatility as one possible method for estimating volatility. It offers no derivation, formula, input requirements, comparison with other estimators, or empirical results, so it serves only as a brief pointer…
This document describes a modified variable moving-average indicator that can replace its averaging method, display the latest value as a price label, and round channel levels to a chosen number of digits. Its main analytical feature is a three-level…
The document explains a correlation indicator for comparing price changes in two symbols. It describes values from positive one to negative one: positive values indicate prices tending to move together, negative values indicate movement in opposite…
This MetaTrader Expert Advisor trails the stop loss of an open position along the boundary of a channel formed by an ATR_Trailing indicator. It updates the stop only when a new bar forms, using data from the newly closed bar, and only when the resulting stop…
The document describes a short-term signal method that combines Stochastic direction with price crossing a moving average and an ADX-based trend assessment. A long setup requires Stochastic to rise, price to break the moving average, and the trend to…
The Vertical Horizontal Filter (VHF), introduced by Adam White in 1991, is designed to assess whether prices are trending or moving sideways. The document presents it as a way to guide the choice between trend following and range oriented indicators. It…
The post introduces a custom simulator intended to provide trade-event notifications in MQL4, where the author says the built-in OnTrade event was not yet supported in the referenced build. The proposed event categories cover opening an instant order,…
This document describes a MetaTrader 5 version of the TDI-2 indicator that can use a selected chart timeframe, with a higher-timeframe setting shown as an example. It also explains how the repeater variant is compiled with the original custom indicator…
This note describes a MACD-style indicator built around the difference in responsiveness between an exponential moving average and a simple moving average. Its central idea is to use that speed difference with a single period, instead of the separate fast…
The Notis oscillator uses the distances from the close to the intraday high and low to form two smoothed series. In its default, non-cumulative mode, the gap between the Plus and Minus lines is presented as a measure of volatility; their crossing is…
This document describes a MetaTrader indicator for MT4 and MT5 that calculates a breakeven price level from open positions and displays it as a horizontal chart line. It also reports the number of trades, total lots, and distance from the breakeven level in…
This document explains how to add notifications to the BrainTrend2Sig semaphore indicator in MetaTrader. It introduces inputs for selecting the signal bar, enabling sound, email, or mobile push alerts, and setting an alert limit. Buy and sell routines…
This description presents a chart indicator that classifies volume bars into categories such as buying climax, selling climax, churn, climax churn, weak candle, and ordinary volume. It displays those categories with colors and adds a moving average of…
This brief indicator description explains a simple way to display Fibonacci levels on a MetaTrader chart. The levels are calculated from the most recent bar on a user-selected timeframe, then redrawn whenever a new bar appears. User-configurable settings…
The Channel Balance indicator measures where the median price, defined as the average of the high and low, sits within the highest-to-lowest price range over a chosen period. It first normalizes that position: subtract the period low from the median price…
The document outlines an automated grid approach that places equally spaced pending limit orders around the current market price. It places sell limits above price and buy limits below, with the trading range derived from weekly highs and lows. Once orders…
This short-term forex strategy combines a 34-period exponential moving average, a 50-period Commodity Channel Index, and the default MACD settings. It is presented as having been tested on EUR/USD and as best suited to a 15-minute chart. The proposed buy…
The document defines a Hurst oscillator using two smoothing steps. First, it calculates a centered moving average by offsetting a simple moving average of median price by half the selected period. Separately, it assigns a flow value based on the close’s…
The document describes two interpretations of the Chaikin volatility indicator. One view associates rising volatility with nervousness near market tops and falling volatility with the late stages of market bottoms, when participation may have waned.…
The document briefly describes a Rapid RSI indicator variant that applies T3 price prefiltering before presenting its RSI output. It also explains an MT5 display feature: the indicator line can change color across user-defined value steps, with 20 steps…