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This document describes a foreign exchange expert advisor built around breakout stop orders and hedging losing positions in an effort to close trades with an overall positive result. The version discussed adds volatility-spike entries, trend checks, hourly…
The document describes a MetaTrader 5 technique for changing the chart objects drawn by an indicator when its source code is unavailable and it does not expose indicator buffers. The method first logs chart object names to identify a naming prefix associated…
This indicator description focuses on displaying clearly labeled bid and ask price lines on a trading chart. The visual aid is intended to reduce confusion between the two quotes when considering order placement. It explains that a buy order reaching the…
The Price Momentum Oscillator (PMO) is a momentum indicator built from the rate of change in closing prices. It first calculates the close-to-close percentage change, scales that value, then applies two successive smoothing stages. A third adjustable period…
This MetaTrader indicator tracks the time remaining in a candle on a second-by-second basis without relying on incoming market ticks. It can count down to the expected candle close, alert when a new candle opens, and count up elapsed time if a candle opens…
This indicator compares the current daily price range with the prior day’s range and marks cases where the ratio falls below a user-set threshold. Its purpose is to identify unusually narrow daily ranges, which traders may use as a prompt to watch for a…
This document describes a simple countertrend Expert Advisor. When price moves by at least a configured number of points within a single tick, the system opens a position in the opposite direction. It closes the position once it has any positive profit,…
This Expert Advisor design combines signals from the Commodity Channel Index, moving averages, Stochastic, Accelerator/Decelerator, DeMarker, and Awesome Oscillator. It can use several indicators together or operate with one, and it lets traders choose…
The document describes a visual indicator that represents the states of MACD and Stochastic as lines of squares. It says the display compares the position of each indicator’s signal line relative to its corresponding indicator line, with the underlying…
The document describes a narrow-range indicator based on comparing the current bar’s high-to-low range with the smallest range observed over a preceding check period. When the current range is smaller, the indicator flags market compression. Its parameters…
This indicator adds support and resistance levels on the chart to a Trix oscillator. The display offers two options for when to show colors and their associated levels: when the oscillator crosses the zero line, or when its slope changes direction. The…
The Lentz Volatility indicator compares the current Average True Range with a moving average of ATR. It subtracts ATR, calculated over a chosen ATR period, from a smoothed average of ATR. The resulting oscillator therefore expresses the difference between…
This document describes an hourly MACD histogram setup intended to identify trend continuation. The rules use threshold levels and the sequence of histogram highs, lows, and reversals to define potential long and short signals. For a long setup, a histogram…
This document introduces pivot points as a forex technical-analysis tool for estimating potential reversal areas. It says the central pivot is calculated from the prior day’s high, low, and close, then used to identify support and resistance levels for the…
SniperJaw is described as an automated, one-trade-at-a-time strategy that follows trends using the Alligator indicator’s Jaw, Teeth, and Lips lines. Traders can adjust the periods and shifts used for those lines, set position size, and enable or disable…
The document introduces the fair value gap as a price imbalance visible across three consecutive candles when their ranges do not fully overlap. Traders may mark the resulting area as a possible return zone, expecting price to revisit and fill the imbalance…
This indicator displays the direction or a signal from a Chandelier Stops calculation on a selected timeframe. It uses a lookback length, an ATR period, and a multiplier to define the underlying stop indicator. A continuing trend is marked with a horizontal…
This indicator concept addresses a limitation of fixed RSI overbought and oversold levels: after prices adjust, RSI may continue to signal an extreme even when that reading is less informative. The proposed relative price channel uses RSI together with upper…
This indicator description explains the Chande Momentum Oscillator (CMO), a momentum measure based on the balance between recent gains and losses relative to total price movement over a selected period. It notes that traders often compare CMO with fixed…
This trading-system description uses an AnchoredMomentum indicator to generate entries when price breaks above or below the indicator’s high or low level at bar close. Positions are exited through a pending order or when the indicator changes color between…
This indicator keeps a moving average tied to a selected timeframe while the chart is viewed at other intervals. The example anchors an eight-period moving average to the hourly chart, then shows equivalent period settings on 15-minute, 30-minute,…
The document describes a chart indicator that displays moving averages for 20-, 50-, 100-, and 200-day periods without requiring the trader to switch chart timeframes. It also inserts gaps between periods so the start of a new period is easier to see. This…
This indicator divides traded volume into buy and sell categories according to whether price is above or below a selected moving average. Price above the average is treated as a buy state, and price below it as a sell state. Users can choose tick volume or…
MultiXRSXSignal presents four XRSX indicator readings from different time frames as separate lines, allowing users to view several timeframe signals together. Each line changes color according to the indicator’s position relative to its signal line: blue…