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This document describes a trading script that sets stop-loss and take-profit levels for open positions using a chosen risk–reward ratio. The trader specifies a stop distance in pips, and the script calculates a corresponding take-profit distance. It can…
This post describes a stock selection rule that combines daily turnover, a low KDJ K value, and prior-day opening-auction turnover. It treats the conditions as a buy signal: turnover must fall within a stated band, K must be below a threshold, and auction…
This indicator measures historical seasonality by grouping monthly price changes by calendar month, using data from a chosen starting year and month through the present. For each month, it reports the average open-to-close return, a normalized rank relative…
The document outlines an expert advisor that uses the Commodity Channel Index, ZigZag, and Impulse indicators. Its configurable inputs include initial position size, stop loss, take profit, trailing stop and step, a shared averaging period for Impulse and…
This utility describes managing each open order with virtual profit and loss thresholds. When an order reaches its configured level, the tool closes it, allowing a trader to apply exit rules without placing a conventional stop loss or take profit order. It…
This document describes a chart-based trading assistant that lets a user place market orders with keyboard commands and configure pending buy-stop, sell-stop, buy-limit, and sell-limit orders by selecting entry, stop-loss, and take-profit prices on a chart.…
The document describes Roboost, a MetaTrader 4 expert advisor for major forex pairs on an hourly timeframe. It combines ideas from common forex robots, including RSI-based half-scalping, and can run on multiple pairs with separate settings. Its configurable…
This overview explains trading bots as programs that use market data and predefined rules to analyze conditions and place orders. Bots can run strategies such as dollar cost averaging or grid trading, and may connect technical indicators with risk management…
The Market Capture strategy starts with a market sell, then adds positions at fixed grid intervals as price moves. An upward move from the initial sell triggers a buy; continued movement adds further buys at intervals from the previous buy. If price reverses…
The strategy ranks stocks by market capitalization, excludes designated special-treatment shares, and buys the ten smallest names, subject to a filter that rejects stocks whose short and long moving averages indicate a clear downtrend. It limits each…
This document describes a modified chart indicator for practicing and reviewing manual trading strategies on historical data. It produces operation reports in tables and charts and saves chart templates, with and without annotations. The stated purpose is to…
The article explains why a high win rate alone does not ensure long-run profits. Traders may close winners too early and let losing positions grow, so the size of gains and losses matters alongside their probabilities. It also argues that trading systems…
This article outlines a daily stock backtest framework in which a natural-language screening query selects entries. The example framework also allows a maximum number of holdings, a holding-period exit, and optional take-profit and stop-loss thresholds.…
The EA described combines the Adaptive Moving Average (AMA) and Relative Strength Index (RSI) in a two-stage signal. For a buy example, RSI must first fall below a configurable level of 30, and price must then cross above AMA within a configurable number of…
The Fill Channel is a chart indicator intended to help traders plan entries, stop losses, profit targets, and position size. It draws a regression-based central line with surrounding bands, then uses those levels to display potential long or short entry…
The document describes a high risk recovery approach that opens an opposite trade when price moves against an existing position by a defined pip distance. If price continues in the new direction, the gains on the newer position may eventually offset the…
This document describes a ProRealTime trend strategy that enters when weighted rate of change, MACD, and stochastic conditions align. It adds to positions as price moves favorably by a volatility-adjusted grid step, with the step derived from recent and…
This script describes a three-leg futures strategy that treats hog value minus weighted corn and soybean meal costs as a proxy for livestock feeding profitability. It estimates the spread’s mean and standard deviation from daily bars, calculates a z-score,…
This document outlines an automated strategy that trades breakouts from a price range during configurable trading hours. Its settings cover start dates, position volume, risk per order, stop-loss placement, take profit, trailing stops, partial exits, and…
This guide treats a trading strategy as a complete set of rules covering what to trade, position size, entries and exits, order placement, and responses to unusual conditions. It surveys broad strategy families and recommends trend trading as an accessible…
This BigQuant strategy tutorial outlines a framework for combining a broad-market risk signal with individual-stock timing and position management. The proposed workflow builds separate feature expressions for index-level risk and stock-level conditions,…
This document describes an Expert Advisor that places Buy Stop and Sell Stop orders at user-defined distances from the current price, with stop-loss and take-profit levels. When one side triggers, the other pending order is removed; after the resulting…
This weekly Chinese equity-market note describes a market-regime framework using the distance between 20-day and 120-day moving averages on a broad market index, alongside a measure of market-wide profit-making activity. In the reported week, the short…
The document describes a MetaTrader 5 utility that manages existing positions by moving stop losses as trades become profitable. It does not select instruments, open trades, or generate entry signals. Traders set a profit threshold for activation, a trailing…