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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A forum user asks how to exempt a selected portion of a trading setup from risk control after commenting out a line caused an error. The reply suggests setting the relevant limit higher than the largest order the user expects to submit, so that the rule does…
The document explains how crypto perpetual futures differ from dated futures. Perpetual contracts have no expiry or rollover, so exchanges use funding payments between long and short holders to encourage the futures price to track spot. When the contract…
This document describes an A-share stock screen combining metaverse classification, a turnover-related threshold, and the presence of an outstanding convertible bond. Its final proposed version adds a market-cap ranking filter and an ROE condition. It also…
This document describes a MetaTrader 5 chart indicator that calculates a suggested lot size from account balance, a chosen risk percentage, and stop-loss distance. Its central method divides the intended cash risk by the loss associated with one lot at the…
The document introduces a discretionary approach that uses an opposing pending order to hedge a position instead of placing a conventional stop loss. The author says they use scripts to place the orders through keyboard shortcuts. The title describes sell…
This Chinese equity strategy combines two types of candidates: stocks in the top 30% by return over the prior 120 trading days, and stocks in the bottom 10% by performance over the prior 30 days. A candidate must also have net inflows from very large orders…
The article argues that capital management should take priority over choosing individual securities, because losses can require disproportionately large gains to recover. It presents position sizing as a way to preserve the ability to keep trading and says…
This MetaTrader expert advisor places sell-stop orders during a configurable trading window. It checks whether trading is allowed and screens orders against a maximum spread, then sets the pending entry below the bid with a stop loss above the ask. The code…
This document describes an expert advisor that opens positions pseudorandomly without custom indicators. It can apply a stop loss, take profit, and trailing stop, and it tracks closed deals to identify losses caused by stop-loss execution. When a qualifying…
This article discusses holding cryptocurrencies through bear markets and adding to a position as prices fall through dollar-cost averaging (DCA). It illustrates how successive purchases at lower prices reduce the average entry price, while stressing that…
This expert-advisor description explains a pending-order strategy that can place buy and sell limit orders or, in a revised version, stop orders. Orders are initially set a configurable distance from market price with stop-loss and take-profit levels, then…
This MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor describes a countertrend entry method that combines an extreme RSI reading with a close beyond a Bollinger Band, then looks for a reversal candlestick pattern as confirmation. The stated defaults use RSI period 14 with…
This document presents an MQL-style function for updating stop-loss levels on open buy and sell orders. It can filter which orders it manages by symbol and magic number, set an initial stop after a trade moves favorably by a start distance, and then adjust…
This stock screen combines three filters: membership in the metaverse theme, a close above the previous session's low, and a stated minimum threshold for float market capitalization. The accompanying explanation treats the price condition as a sign of a…
This document describes a trading account script that displays the maximum lot size the account can currently support. The estimate is based on free margin, which reflects account funds available for opening positions, and is influenced by account size and…
This Expert Advisor describes a range breakout method keyed to a narrowest-range indicator. When a signal appears, it places buy-stop and sell-stop orders beyond the range boundaries, with a take-profit setting and a stop loss at the opposite boundary. If a…
The document introduces a quantitative way to assess an individual stock before deciding whether to buy it and how much capital to allocate. Rather than forecasting which stocks will be attractive, the proposed diagnostic approach looks backward at how the…
This Chinese equity selection rule screens for main board shares with RSI below 65 and a daily rise greater than 1%, then ranks eligible names by opening auction value and selects the top five. The post presents the ranking as a way to favor stocks with…
The post asks why VeighNa’s spread position calculation divides net position by a trading multiplier and rounds down, while an algo’s leg-traded calculation also rounds to the spread’s minimum volume before rounding down. It presents the two code snippets as…
This document describes a chart indicator that calculates an average or breakeven price across multiple positions in the same symbol. It draws a horizontal line and uses color to distinguish an overall buy position, sell position, or neutral state. The…
This reading summary presents a trader’s reflections on moving from discretionary stock speculation toward systematic trading. It argues that market analysis is necessarily incomplete, that market regimes and favored styles can change, and that traders…
This Expert Advisor runs two trading systems based on changes in the direction of the ColorJFatl_Digit indicator: one for long positions and one for short positions. Each side has its own settings, including a distinct magic number and money-management…
This MetaTrader script is described as a position-sizing aid: the user enters a maximum risk percentage and stop-loss distance to calculate the lot size for an opening position. Parameters also allow buy or sell mode, multiple orders, a take-profit distance,…
PROphet is an Expert Advisor built around two independent linear perceptrons that classify candlestick-shift inputs. One model distinguishes buy signals from flat or sell conditions; the other distinguishes sell signals from flat or buy conditions. The…