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This indicator adapts an average true range channel using Perry Kaufman's efficiency ratio rather than the standard deviation ratio described in an earlier adjustable-bands approach. Its ATR component is adaptive and smoothed to produce less jagged bands.…
This document describes an MT5 indicator that displays account balance and equity alongside current and daily drawdown, floating profit or loss, daily results, margin level, and open positions. It also tracks peak equity so traders can see declines from the…
The Gann High-Low Activator is described as a simple moving average of prior-period highs or lows. This note presents a deliberately uncomplicated version intended to make indicator testing straightforward. Its line changes color according to the indicator’s…
The document describes an Expert Advisor that trades signals from a TRIX indicator with a separate signal line and arrows at their intersections. A bullish signal occurs when the signal line moves from below the main TRIX line to above it between consecutive…
The document describes a weekly chart indicator that marks reversal points and plots an average purple line as the weekly pivot. It says support and resistance levels are determined from the size of the weekly candlesticks, but does not explain the…
Rainbow WMA is described as a generalized form of Mel Widner’s Rainbow Average, with a connection to the Guppy Multiple Moving Average. It produces a single average value and allows the user to adjust the recursive calculation depth. The source contrasts…
This indicator extends a basic ZigZag tool, which marks local highs and lows, by searching for flat consolidation areas. It identifies repeated highs near a shared level to mark an upper boundary and repeated lows near a shared level to mark a lower…
Asymmetric Trend Pressure is a technical indicator for displaying trend direction and strength, with optional separate lines for bullish and bearish components. Its direction calculation uses open and close prices over a chosen period. The indicator also…
This indicator plots an exponential moving average of true range, a measure of price movement that accounts for gaps, along with an offset derived from the exponential average of deviations from that range. The construction offers a way to smooth changing…
Ozymandias Lite is presented as a stripped-down version of an existing MetaTrader indicator. The lite edition retains the main indicator line while removing the price-band lines and the ATR calculation used to plot those bands. The stated purpose is to…
This document explains a simplified ring buffer intended for short time series, indicator buffers, and intermediate streaming data inside trading software. It uses an unsigned 8-bit index that cycles through values from 0 to 255, so the implementation can…
SSH is described as an indicator that plots two lines from moving averages of candle highs and lows. Their crossing is treated as a potential buy or sell signal. The multi-timeframe version displays the indicator calculated on a higher timeframe within a…
The document introduces the SVE Volatility Band, a price-band indicator described by Sylvain Vervoort in a 2018 article. It is intended to make changes in volatility more visible on charts that are not built from fixed time intervals, such as Renko charts.…
The strategy uses ADX to identify quieter conditions and ATR to set breakout entry levels. When ADX is below 30, it places a buy stop above the recent high and a sell stop below the recent low, each offset by the 14-period ATR. Its money management is…
This Expert Advisor enters trades from the AroonSignal indicator. It acts when a bar closes and a newly colored diamond appears, which the document describes as an Aroon rearrangement moving between overbought and oversold zones. The strategy therefore…
This document explains a reusable time-control class for an expert advisor. The class lets a trader enable or disable trading on individual weekdays and define a start and stop time for each day. It can be initialized with default settings, a set of weekday…
This MetaTrader chart utility saves periodic image snapshots into folders named for the trading pair. It chooses a capture interval based on the chart timeframe, with separate defaults ranging from frequent captures on minute charts to less frequent captures…
This brief describes a version of the Slope Direction Line indicator that lets the user choose its calculation timeframe through an input parameter. It gives a four-hour period as the default example, so the indicator can use data from a timeframe different…
This document outlines an Expert Advisor that can move stop losses to break-even and/or trail them as prices move favorably. It can be limited to the current currency pair or applied across positions, and it can select trades by magic number, including all…
The document describes a simple MetaTrader 4 script for closing open trades one at a time. It first sorts the trade tickets in ascending order, then attempts to close them sequentially, beginning with the lowest ticket and continuing through the list. The…
This brief description outlines an Expert Advisor that uses a TSI-MACD oscillator. It says the EA generates a signal when a bar closes and the indicator’s cloud changes color. The document also notes that the indicator file must be installed in the…
The Disparity Index is presented as a way to identify prices that have moved unusually far from a reference level, helping traders decide when to look for reversal setups. The described version calculates each bar’s absolute percentage price change, averages…
This beta indicator aims to estimate whether currencies are strong or weak by detecting the currencies represented in a chart and examining all pairs involving them. It compares each pair’s current close with either its current open or its previous close,…
The document describes an automated EUR/USD strategy that uses a moving-average crossing on a 15-minute chart to enter trades. A 50-pip noise filter is intended to avoid reacting to small price moves. The stated setup uses a 350-pip take-profit and a 20-pip…