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 document describes a MetaTrader 5 trade-management expert advisor for open manual forex trades. It can assign stop-loss and take-profit levels in pips, move a stop to break-even after a chosen profit threshold, and trail the stop as price moves. Users…
This document describes a trading script that places a buy limit order and a sell limit order at equal distances from the current price. Its listed inputs let the user configure money management, allowed price deviation, order spacing in points, stop loss…
This example defines a long-only stock strategy that enters when the MACD line crosses above its signal line while a simple moving average is declining relative to its value over a lookback period. It initializes a protective stop several ATR units below the…
This document describes a trading routine that sizes a position as a chosen percentage of the account’s free margin. The stated inputs are a stop-loss distance in pips and a risk percentage, and the example explains how the calculated buy volume is checked…
This proposed daily strategy for the DAX mini switches between mean-reversion and breakout entries according to ADX thresholds. It uses the candle’s direction and size relative to average true range to trigger trades, and applies separate volatility ceilings…
This description outlines an expert advisor that manages open positions by closing part of a profitable position when a price-distance condition is met, then moving the remaining position’s stop to breakeven. The stated condition is incomplete: it does not…
This Supermind example turns a pressure-and-support indicator into a simple long-only trading system. It computes a price measure from the open, high, low, and close, then scales it within the recent 34-period low-to-high range. Two moving averages smooth…
This strategy scans a fixed universe of large, liquid US-listed stocks for breaks above the high established during the first 15 minutes of the regular session. A research agent identifies and ranks stocks that have since closed above that level; a separate…
The Smart AC Trader is described as a forex expert advisor that ranks eight major currencies by strength and combines that selection with moving averages and other indicators. It is intended for major currency pairs and multiple time frames, and the…
This essay presents four behavioral principles for discretionary stock trading: wait for clearer opportunities, control emotional reactions, make plans before the session, and manage exposure to preserve capital. It argues that avoiding low-quality trades…
The document presents a BigQuant example for trading the CSI 300 index futures contract from a user-supplied calendar of daily long, short, or no-trade directions. It checks minute data for entry windows around 10:00 and 14:00, targets a specified fraction…
This expert advisor uses a custom RSI Dual Cloud indicator and supports four signal types: entering a zone, remaining in it, leaving it, and line crossings. Buy signals use a zone below the specified lower level, while sell signals use a zone above the upper…
The article introduces the Kelly criterion as a way to choose the fraction of capital to risk based on the probability of winning and the payoff relative to losses. It gives the standard binary-bet formula and explains that positive values suggest a stake,…
This stock selection screen targets robot-themed A-shares with a floating market value below 10 billion yuan and turnover between 3% and 12%, while excluding Beijing-listed stocks. The accompanying example also removes names marked as special treatment,…
This reference explains how an engine represents cash, margin, betting, and wallet accounts across backtests and live trading. It defines total, locked, and free balances and requires them to reconcile at currency precision. It also describes how pending…
This article describes 25 reasons retail investors may lose money in equities. It groups them around information and research gaps, overreliance on one strategy, emotional and herd-driven decisions, limited planning and experience, concentrated portfolios,…
MA2CCI is described as a trading strategy built from two moving averages, average true range, and the commodity channel index. Average true range is used to calculate the stop-loss level, while position size is based on a specified percentage of margin. The…
This expert advisor acts on signals from two moving-average indicators, whose settings are built into the program. It checks for signals only when a new bar appears. On a buy signal it closes sell positions, and on a sell signal it closes buy positions,…
This document describes a rule-based strategy that opens at most one position per day at a configured hour, trading against the direction inferred from price movement over a chosen number of preceding hours. It also lists controls for trade size, take…
The article introduces cryptocurrency futures as contracts used to gain exposure to expected price moves without directly holding the underlying coins. It describes taking long positions when anticipating a rise and short positions when expecting a decline,…
The document describes an Expert Advisor for XAUUSD that combines a price dynamics filter, an online-learning neural network, and volatility-based risk management. Its market-state component derives velocity from price changes and an entropy-like measure…
This MetaTrader Expert Advisor description explains how one EA can run two BrainTrend2_V2-based trading systems, with separate input groups for long and short positions. Distinct magic numbers identify the systems independently, and each side has its own…
This brief release note describes two additions to a MACD pattern trading program. A user can set a start date and stop date to restrict the period during which the program operates. It also adds support for a “stretched” martingale, indicating that position…
This document describes an expert advisor built around a moving average indicator that analyzes recent bars to determine when to trade. Its configurable inputs include trade size, moving average period, minimum and maximum average slope, and timing and price…