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.
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This brief forum exchange concerns adding a percentage stop based on actual profit and loss to a CTA strategy. The questioner notes that margin differs by instrument, so a fixed price-distance calculation may not represent the actual loss, and asks whether…
The strategy described in the code sorts stocks around earnings announcements by their returns from four to two trading days before the event. The underlying research description first divides stocks by firm size, then sorts the largest size group into…
This expert advisor opens market orders using pseudo-random decisions and does not rely on a custom indicator. It places take-profit and stop-loss levels after execution, can trail stops after a configured threshold, and increases position size after a loss…
This document describes a simplified expert advisor that trades intersections between two custom moving average indicators configured for another timeframe. It compares the indicator values on the previous completed bar and the current bar to identify a…
This expert advisor starts a cycle by comparing the latest two bar closes: it opens a buy after an upward change and otherwise opens a sell. It then places a pending stop order in the opposite direction, a configurable distance from the current price. If…
This advice article presents four habits for discretionary equity traders: record trade ideas and their reasoning before entry, review how subsequent price action compares with expectations, wait for stronger opportunities instead of trading constantly, and…
The document describes adding withdrawal tracking to an Expert Advisor running on an account, with the aim of adapting its position size when the account balance falls because of a withdrawal. It highlights a problem with recovery-style sizing: an EA may…
This expert advisor describes a Stochastic-based approach for EUR/USD on a four-hour chart. It uses signals within the 20–80 range and starts trades at a configured minute. The listed parameters include the number of orders, a stop-loss setting, a balance…
Ilan 1.6 Dynamic is a forex expert advisor that averages into losing positions, increasing trade size as price moves against the initial entry. It sets the next entry distance from the recent high–low range, then seeks a small reversal to close the basket at…
The article proposes a short-horizon trading routine built around weekly profit targets and strict loss limits. Its central rule is to enter during the first trading day of the week, exit the full position once total portfolio gains reach 2.5%, and stop…
This description outlines an expert advisor that opens positions across two forex pairs and calculates direction and lot size from recent price history, using the last 60 bars without technical indicators. The stated premise is that the selected pairs should…
This short support discussion concerns a Chinese stock strategy whose test run reportedly rounded purchases to multiples of one hundred shares, while the published simulated account showed non-rounded quantities. A reply names two possible causes: trading…
This MetaTrader expert advisor is designed to open, manage, and close trades using a No Nonsense Forex-style workflow. Its controls can open two half-sized positions with stop losses set at 1.5 times ATR, while assigning an ATR-sized take profit to one…
This article describes a customizable stock selection strategy built from five rules, chiefly intended to identify oversold shares that may be stabilizing, with some rules aimed at possible upward moves. It contrasts AI-generated strategies, which are easier…
This tutorial illustrates a simple recurring fund purchase: a setup function schedules a trading function to run weekly, and that function submits an order for a specified index-enhanced fund. The explanation describes the roles of initialization and…
The document describes an expert advisor that adjusts position size across fixed-size groups of trades. After a group ends with consecutive losses, it scales the lot size upward by a configured factor; after a group of consecutive wins, it resets sizing.…
The document describes a trading robot that uses the previous day’s candle high and low as part of its trading logic. It says the EA operates on the open candle and is intended for H4 and daily charts, particularly major forex pairs and NASDAQ stocks. Its…
This article presents general guidance for smaller futures traders: define a loss limit before entering, exit when the market invalidates the trade, and follow the plan consistently. It also recommends allowing profitable positions to run while the trend…
The document describes a scalping expert advisor that uses the Money Flow Index to identify overbought and oversold conditions. It is presented for five-minute charts, with stated compatibility across other timeframes and instruments including major forex…
This Chinese-language essay presents conditional planning as a way to act under market uncertainty. Instead of claiming that traders can know what prices will do, it recommends preparing “if–then” responses to defined events. Examples include exiting when…
This article advocates making trading decisions through explicit “if–then” plans rather than trying to predict market outcomes with certainty. It suggests defining actions in advance for possible price, company, and broad-market conditions, with examples…
This description presents a short-term Expert Advisor using Stochastic and Parabolic indicators, with a suggested 15-minute chart for EUR/USD and NASDAQ stocks. It states that the EA trades using the open candle’s price and offers stop loss and take profit…
This Expert Advisor runs separate long and short systems using signals from an Adaptive Renko indicator. It adds direction-specific money-management settings that examine a chosen number of recent trades and reduce the next position size when enough of those…
The document lays out a practical sequence for developing a quantitative trading strategy, from matching the tooling to the researcher’s skills through live monitoring and eventual adjustment or termination. It suggests starting with an existing technical…