Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
17 documents
The document describes a short-term forex approach that opens a position around the transition between trading days, following the direction indicated by the previous day’s candle. It also discusses a script designed to collect statistics on whether a price…
These reading notes explain how futures can offset exposure to changes in commodity prices, exchange rates, or other market variables. A short hedge suits a party that benefits when an asset price rises and loses when it falls, such as a producer planning a…
This guide surveys data services that traders and researchers might use for market quotes, historical bars, and related financial information. It discusses Google Finance, Finnhub, iTick, and Bloomberg, contrasting broad asset coverage, real-time delivery,…
This Expert Advisor combines a trend strength filter, a pullback trigger, and volatility-scaled exits. It requires ADX to be above a threshold and rising on closed bars. A pullback event is defined by the price-to-EMA distance, measured in ATR units,…
This document outlines a MetaTrader 4 Expert Advisor template that retrieves economic calendar events without using a DLL. It describes a basic news-state signal: the EA indicates whether an event falls within a configurable window before or after its…
This EUR/USD expert advisor averages losing positions in one chosen direction, buying or selling at the user's setting. When price moves against the open position by a specified step, it adds an order of fixed volume. After accumulated positions reach a…
This guide explains two Rust workflows for running Nautilus Trader backtests. The lower-level BacktestEngine approach assembles a simulated venue, instruments, in-memory market data, and a strategy before running the engine. It allows direct configuration of…
This document describes configurable properties for the SmartAssTrade-V2 MetaTrader expert advisor. It specifies operation on the 30-minute chart and lists controls for Friday trading, automatic or manual lot sizing, maximum open orders, take profit, stop…
This document explains a simple automated Forex strategy driven by the crossover relationship between short- and long-period moving averages. When the short average is above the long average, the EA treats the market as bullish, closes any sell positions,…
This expert-advisor description outlines a tick-driven scalping system that compares short-window price returns with a rolling statistical baseline. It enters only when the move’s z-score exceeds a configurable threshold, then lets the user choose either…
This trading-system description uses changes in the ColorXADX indicator’s cloud color to signal entries at bar close. It adds a trend-strength threshold to avoid opening positions when the market is flat. The stated default threshold is 30, and the filter…
This document describes a MetaTrader indicator that summarizes trend direction across nine chart periods, from one minute through monthly. It combines readings from the Stochastic oscillator, RSI, and Commodity Channel Index, displaying the directions…
The article proposes finding unusually large price moves across a range of lookback lengths, rather than relying on a single fixed period such as the conventional RSI or Bollinger Band settings. It estimates volatility from prior chart data, measures moves…
This indicator overlays the price history of two currencies or other assets on one chart so a trader can inspect their relative movement. The example describes viewing USDCHF alongside EURUSD and presents the tool as potentially useful when studying…
This Expert Advisor uses moving average and Envelopes indicators to place pending buy and sell orders. It operates only when a new bar appears and limits order placement to a configured time window. The system can maintain up to three pending orders in each…
This document explains a MetaTrader 4 indicator for calculating pivot-like price levels according to a chosen session time zone. It distinguishes the time zone used by the chart’s server from the target session’s time zone, allowing levels to align with a…
This article describes updates to time-handling functions for trading software, focusing on daylight saving time, broker offsets, and the weekly forex session close. A change in the platform’s time-copying behavior meant future timestamps were no longer…