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This document describes an expert advisor that checks for MACD entry signals when a new bar appears, while managing trailing stops on every tick. A buy setup requires the MACD main line to be below zero, cross above its signal line, and exceed a configurable…
This article describes updates to time-handling functions for trading software, focusing on daylight saving time, broker offsets, and the weekly forex session close. A change in the platform’s time-copying behavior meant future timestamps were no longer…
This indicator concept automates selected London and New York intraday windows used in the ICT methodology. It draws a range for each active window, labels the session, and classifies the movement as accumulation, manipulation, or expansion according to the…
The document describes a higher-timeframe option for the Awesome Signal indicator in MetaTrader 5. Users can choose the chart period through an input parameter, with a four-hour period shown as the default example. The accompanying setup note says to place…
The document describes a modified stochastic oscillator for MetaTrader. It addresses a limitation in the built-in version, which offers only close-to-close and low-to-high price selections, by adding other standard price types. The indicator also changes its…
This system adapts the Bollinger Band idea by calculating an exponential average and standard deviation from highs for an upper threshold, and from lows for a lower threshold. When price moves above the high-based threshold, it opens a short position; when…
This document describes an expert advisor that combines two moving averages with short trend lines drawn from fractals. Its stated directional rule is to buy when both lines turn upward and sell when both turn downward. It says the trend line acts as a…
The document explains a chart indicator that aggregates tick counts across a chosen interval of multiple candlesticks, then divides that combined interval into price clusters. It presents this as a horizontal market cross-section: each cluster shows the…
The document outlines an automated tool for managing exits on existing trades and pending orders; it explicitly does not open trades. Its listed controls include an account-equity target, visible fixed stop-losses, hidden fixed stop-losses, and visible or…
This document describes an Expert Advisor based on the claim that a financial agency’s published ratings or chart leads Forex prices. Its example says Moody’s signal is ahead by 75 minutes. The robot constructs two bars, each 0.5 points wide, monitors for…
This document outlines an Expert Advisor that uses the i-CAiChannel_System_Digit indicator to generate signals when a bar closes with a colored state after the prior bar had the opposite color or no color. The EA therefore reacts to a change in the…
The document describes an MT4 and MT5 chart indicator that uses three ADX periods to mark where a trend starts and ends, as well as intervals it classifies as trendless. It displays horizontal lines and directional arrows on the main price chart, and can…
This MetaTrader Expert Advisor uses ColorXdinMA indicator signals to trade. It opens a position when a colored indicator point appears at a bar close, and generates an exit signal when the indicator changes direction against the open position. The…
This document describes a MetaTrader indicator that watches two moving averages and issues one alert for each upward or downward cross, marking the event with an arrow. Users can choose moving average methods and price inputs, and configure popup, sound,…
This trading system description combines two moving averages with an engulfing pattern and describes use of stop losses, take profits, and trailing exits. It is presented for major forex pairs and Nasdaq stocks, with the author also mentioning hourly charts.…
This document describes an Expert Advisor that uses the current price and the current bar’s high and low to generate trades, without technical indicators. During a new bar, a move down from the high by a configured rollback distance triggers a buy signal; a…
This educational expert advisor uses Tipu Trend signals on a 15-minute chart, confirmed by the hourly trend. It checks the distance to a swing-low or swing-high stop derived from Tipu Stops against a user-set risk limit before opening one trade per signal.…
This expert advisor trades signals from a DEMA Range Channel indicator. It opens a position when a bar closes after breaking through the channel, then closes the position once its holding time reaches a configured limit. The described setup makes the holding…
The document explains a monitoring method for identifying stale or delayed quotes in an automated trading setup. For each incoming tick, the detector compares its timestamp with the previous tick’s timestamp and records an alert when the new tick is earlier.…
This document describes a multi-symbol Expert Advisor that trades London-session breakouts from the pre-London Asian range. It places pending buy or sell stop orders only beyond the corresponding range boundary. Parabolic SAR swing levels anchor entries and…
The document describes a rule-based hourly forex strategy centered on the period around the end of the trading day. It measures the high-to-low range from 18:00 to 22:00, scales that range, and places a buy limit below and a short limit above the 22:00 close…
The Float indicator analyzes a selected window of prior bars for a currency pair, marks trend swings in a separate chart pane, and draws Fibonacci retracement and DiNapoli levels on the main chart. It also shows how long ago the local high and low were…
This swing-trading approach uses 9-, 21-, and 55-period exponential moving averages to organize trend direction and trade signals. The 55-period average acts as the longer-term trend filter, while the 21-period average represents the intermediate trend. The…
The document describes a trading indicator that compares two currency pairs. Users choose a second symbol, a correlation method, and a lookback period; the resulting indicator is intended to help assess whether the pairs are moving together or diverging.…