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These release notes describe a Hummingbot update that adds connectivity to several decentralized and centralized crypto markets, including spot and perpetual futures venues. The highlighted strategy, cross-exchange mining, places maker orders on one exchange…
The document describes a MetaTrader indicator that plots configurable round-number price levels and surrounding zones above and below the current price. It frames these zones as possible psychological support or resistance areas and can alert users when the…
PricerEA is described as a trading utility for placing stop or limit pending orders at user-selected prices. It can calculate the lot size for each order automatically and can apply a trailing stop after a pending order is triggered; trailing stops are…
The indicator collects real-time tick arrival times and Bid and Ask prices, displays the two price series in a subwindow, and can save collected observations to a tick file. It also supports keeping several nonstandard chart types active, including…
This dashboard snapshot describes a live Binance BTC/USDT futures robot running on an hourly candle interval. It reports account-level figures including equity, cumulative profit, drawdown, open positions, and win rate, alongside a large order history.…
This intermediate FMZ tutorial explains practical platform techniques for building automated trading strategies. It covers operating across exchanges and symbols, configuring futures and swap contracts, and handling API failures through retries, null checks,…
This Expert Advisor example applies two moving averages, MACD, and the Commodity Channel Index to USDJPY on an hourly chart. It reads indicator values from completed bars, including consecutive MACD readings, and uses trade-transaction events to track…
This brief Chinese-language support exchange addresses a strategy configured for daily rebalancing that appears to trade only every seven days in backtesting and does not rebalance in simulation. The response points to a condition in the backtest module’s…
This Expert Advisor searches the previous 500 closing bars for price levels where closes cluster, then uses a cross of three moving averages of different lengths as a trend-development signal. After detecting a directional trend, it identifies the nearest…
The document describes an order-management issue in a Binance perpetual futures example. A partially filled sell order has an original quantity and an executed quantity; subtracting the latter from the former in JavaScript produces a residual quantity with a…
This brief note presents general software design principles that can inform trading-system architecture. It describes design patterns as reusable solutions developed through experience, intended to help make systems easier to extend, maintain, and support.…
This beginner tutorial explains why a live trading system may need to collect its own candlestick history. Some exchanges provide candle data directly, while others may not. The author distinguishes live use from testing: the platform supplies historical…
This interview describes how a cryptocurrency liquidity miner used automated market making to provide liquidity across selected token pairs. He began with market making, tested different order approaches, and settled on using three orders. He ran bots…
The document explains how MQL5’s trade-transaction event can report account changes caused by submitted requests, interface actions, pending or stop-order activation, and server-side operations. It presents a base class that receives the transaction,…
The document explains how an algorithmic execution module accepts order parameters, launches and monitors algorithms, and supports pausing, resuming, or stopping them. It also describes launching jobs from newly created CSV files and tracking their status in…
The document describes a Windows message-based script for disabling automated trading on a specific Expert Advisor in MetaTrader. It opens the EA properties dialog, navigates to the Common tab using keyboard shortcuts when needed, locates the auto-trading…
This FAQ explains practical design and troubleshooting points for FMZ Quant Workflow strategies. It covers host-version requirements, JavaScript-only code nodes, sequential execution, trigger behavior, reading data from connected parent nodes, and sharing…
This document describes an MT5 chart indicator that displays server time and the current bid price as labels in the main chart or a chosen subwindow. Its clock uses a timer event to update once per second, so the display can continue advancing when the…
The document describes an Expert Advisor that trades when the Laguerre_ADX indicator’s cloud changes color. It generates a signal at the close of the bar where the color change occurs. The strategy therefore uses an indicator-state transition as its entry…
This post describes a long-only RSI(2) mean-reversion strategy for equity indices. It buys when the two-period RSI falls below 15, subject to a positive slope in the 22-day moving average and a 22-period RSI above 50. It exits when RSI(2) rises above 60 and…
The document describes a timing question in a daily trading strategy. Signals are created in an after-market routine, while orders are submitted in a data handler and intended to fill at the opening price. The author expects a signal generated after one…
This short community exchange addresses why orders may fail in a SimNow simulated trading account even when login and account queries work and the user has checked the configuration. The reply identifies a specific environment limitation: SimNow does not…
The document explains how to use a market-depth trading interface for live, manual intraday trading in a single futures contract. After connecting a trading gateway and opening a contract chart, the ladder displays price levels, bid and ask quantities, best…
This reference explains exchange rules that determine whether orders are accepted. Symbol-level checks cover valid price ranges and increments, quantity bounds and steps, notional value limits, iceberg order parts, trailing-stop parameters, and caps on open…