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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The author describes a cryptocurrency strategy built around trend-aware entry selection and dynamically adjusted distances for adding to losing positions. After an initial trade, the method uses martingale-style averaging rather than promptly admitting a…
This document describes an expert advisor that monitors all open positions together and closes them when their combined losses exceed a user-set threshold. The threshold can be measured either as a percentage or in the account’s deposit currency. The advisor…
This listing describes an automated strategy that combines Ichimoku and Parabolic indicators, with configurable moving averages and momentum triggers. It says the system evaluates the open candle price and provides controls for stop loss, take profit,…
This document describes a MACD-based expert advisor that opens trades when a signal appears and closes an opposing position. It also offers optional trade-management settings: close half a position after a configured profit, move a position to breakeven, and…
This MetaTrader 5 article describes a way to trigger manual orders while an expert advisor runs in Strategy Tester. Since the author says chart events do not work there for detecting button clicks, the EA instead checks a shared files folder on each tick.…
This document outlines a semi-automated intraday trend strategy built from two Parabolic SAR settings. The slower indicator supplies the directional entry signal, while the faster one determines the exit level. Positions are also closed when an opposite…
This brief description outlines an automated short-term scalping strategy for one-minute charts. It names a six-period RSI and a two-period moving average as fast signals, and recommends filtering trades when spreads exceed a stated range. It also suggests a…
This trading script description explains how to place multiple pending buy or sell orders evenly across a specified price range, using a chosen point interval. It also describes bulk changes to take-profit and stop-loss levels, and deletion of untriggered…
This strategy description proposes trading a reversal in the Italy 40 index around the morning opening of its futures market. It takes a position opposite the prior day's directional move when that move exceeds a threshold, excludes August, and requires ATR…
This introductory article defines a trading strategy as a plan specifying what to trade, when to enter and exit, and how much risk to accept. It says the plan should reflect a trader’s goals and risk tolerance, and identifies technical analysis, risk…
This brief description outlines an expert advisor using Bill Williams’ Awesome Oscillator (AO) and Accelerator Oscillator (AC). It opens a buy position when both indicators are green and a sell position when both are red. It exits when either indicator…
This MQL4 and MQL5 library guide describes a wrapper for double-precision values and a vector collection of those objects. Its trading-focused methods round prices to a symbol’s tick size, volumes to its lot step, and trade-request price, stop-loss,…
This brief description outlines an automated MetaTrader 4 trading approach that uses MACD signals across two chart intervals. A signal on the daily chart acts as the directional filter: the system waits for a matching signal on a 15-minute chart before…
This short BigQuant forum exchange clarifies how an AI-generated portfolio template handles positions. The question asks whether a stated holding period means a ten-day accumulation window, why purchases are spread across days instead of completed…
The article explains that trading outcomes depend on both the proportion of winning trades and the average size of wins relative to losses. It gives examples intended to show that a low win rate can still be profitable when average wins are much larger,…
The document describes a spot trading scheme that opens a position with a fixed profit target, then adds to the position as price moves against it in an attempt to lower the average entry price. If losses or available capital prevent further additions, an…
This document describes an intraday strategy for the French CAC 40 using 10-second bars. It calculates Supertrend states across several higher timeframes, then combines those states with detailed weekday and time-of-day filters. Long entries are considered…
This document describes an on-chart calculator for determining trade volume from account balance, a chosen risk percentage, and stop-loss distance. It is intended to help manual traders translate a risk limit into a position size rather than choose lots by…
The document explains an Expert Advisor approach that triggers take profit using current profit in the account currency rather than a price or pip distance. It counts open orders and sums profit for orders sharing a magic number, which can isolate a…
This MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor estimates the likelihood of price rising or falling from historical bar patterns. It examines a configurable history, groups observations into clusters of bars, and counts how often closes move above or below opens by a…
The document introduces the Kelly criterion through repeated bets with known win probabilities and gain or loss sizes. It explains why a positive expected value alone does not justify risking all available capital: large bets expose a strategy to ruin and…
The article outlines a long-only strategy for crypto contracts that attempts to buy during declines using a grid-like sequence of limit orders. Starting from a reference price, it places further buys at progressively lower intervals, with order size…
The document describes an indicator that displays the estimated monetary value of a defined stop loss, take profit, or both, converted into the account’s deposit currency. This can help a trader see the approximate financial impact of exit levels in familiar…
This tutorial outlines a conventional trend-following strategy for Chinese stocks using short- and long-period moving averages. It describes entering when the short average is above the long average and exiting when it falls below, with trades placed at the…