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 expert advisor manages existing positions by moving their stop loss along a user-defined price path. The trader specifies a target through a bar offset and a price change, then selects a linear, exponential, or power curve. The chosen curve shapes how…
This document describes a MetaTrader expert advisor that closes trades when account-currency profit or loss crosses user-defined thresholds. Profit-triggered closing is enabled by default in the listed settings, while loss-triggered closing is disabled by…
This intraday index strategy trades breaks of the overnight high or low during a morning entry window. It uses recent highs and lows to define levels, adds a configurable spread to some stop or limit orders, and uses the Parabolic SAR to shape entries and…
The document explains a basic position-sizing calculation: derive trade volume from a chosen risk percentage and the distance to the stop loss. It says the method is intended to work across security types. The calculation therefore connects the amount at…
This tutorial explains a MetaTrader 5 example expert advisor that trades price crossings of a simple moving average. It opens a short position when a bar moves from above the average to below it, and a long position on the reverse crossing. The EA checks for…
This MQL5 auditing tool analyzes closed positions from a CSV trade-history file. It looks for four risk patterns: larger position sizes after losses, overlapping same-direction positions that may indicate grid trading or averaging down, an imbalance between…
This forex Expert Advisor trades a currency pair when Heiken Ashi candles agree across four charts: five-minute, fifteen-minute, thirty-minute, and hourly. Red candles across all charts trigger a sell; white candles trigger a buy. It uses fixed take-profit…
This article outlines a systematic trend-following approach commonly called the Turtle method. It describes choosing liquid markets, using average true range (ATR) as a volatility measure for position sizing, and entering on Donchian channel breakouts. The…
This example implements a simple long-only strategy that buys one configurable asset and then holds it. It runs once per day, records the asset’s latest price, and adds that price to an indicator chart. If the strategy has no positions, it uses the portfolio…
The document describes a trading-platform script for opening a short position at the current chart price. When the script is placed on a chart, it prompts the user to set a risk percentage and a reward ratio; confirming the inputs submits the trade. The…
This discussion describes a backtest design in which a stock is bought whenever it meets a daily filter, with purchases made each day rather than on a ten-day rebalance schedule. Each new position is allocated 20% of the remaining cash, with holdings…
This short strategy description explains a breakout entry process: once a buy or sell signal appears, the system defines a price level and opens a position when price crosses it. The signal's working hours can be restricted, and any open positions can be…
This platform announcement describes support for trading Binance BTC-USDT futures through an algorithmic trading system. It lists a maximum leverage of 20 and explains that leverage is applied automatically, with required margin rising as notional position…
This example turns StockRanker predictions into daily portfolio orders inside BigTrader. It selects a small set of the highest-ranked stocks and assigns larger weights to higher-ranked names using inverse logarithmic weights. Per-stock exposure is capped,…
The document outlines an automated trading system with two selectable strategies, described for major forex pairs and NASDAQ stocks. It says the EA acts on the open candle and exposes moving-average settings, a distance parameter between averages, and a…
The guide explains leveraged cryptocurrency trading on Binance, including the relationship between position size and margin, how to calculate leverage, and the basic steps for opening a margin account and placing a trade. It describes transferring funds into…
This brief description outlines an expert advisor that opens positions according to bullish or bearish engulfing candlestick patterns. Users can specify the position type for each signal, set risk as a percentage for position-volume calculation, and adjust…
This MetaTrader expert advisor uses a daily price move threshold to enter countertrend trades: it sells after price rises sufficiently above the day’s low and buys using the opposite condition. The stated approach seeks a pullback after a strong move. Once…
This document describes a chart-based assistant for placing and managing orders. Users can open buy or sell entries using a chosen lot size and entry count, close all orders or only those in profit or loss, and apply take-profit or stop-loss values across…
This manual-trading assistant manages positions on the currently selected symbol, without filtering by magic number. Its trailing feature waits until a position reaches a user-set profit threshold, described as a breakeven-like activation condition, before…
This Python strategy sells a short-dated SPY iron condor near the end of each trading day, targeting expiration on the next trading day. It skips a new position when the prior day's VIX close exceeded 25. Otherwise, an AI trading agent selects short put and…
This conclusion to a chart analysis tutorial explains how traders use price patterns to infer possible direction and estimate potential moves. It names formations such as head and shoulders, triangles, cup and handle, tops and bottoms, flags, pennants,…
This document describes a chart-based trading tool that displays position size, risk, and reward information while allowing traders to set entry, stop-loss, and take-profit levels by moving chart lines. It supports market and pending buy or sell orders, can…
This document describes an Expert Advisor that turns signals from custom indicators into trades. Users specify an indicator, its input parameters, and the buffers or lines that represent signals. The tool supports arrow signals, line crossovers, threshold…