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This overview outlines four broad high-frequency trading approaches: market making, large-order execution, quantitative signal trading, and event-driven trading. It explains how passive market makers seek spread and fee-rebate income while managing inventory…
This brief description outlines an MQL5 indicator approach for showing higher-timeframe logic on a lower-timeframe chart. It highlights synchronizing higher-timeframe data within a lower-timeframe execution loop and using new-bar detection to trigger…
The document presents a simple directional strategy for EUR/USD based on the ordering of three moving averages. It identifies a shorter, medium, and longer average, and enters a long position when they are stacked from shortest to longest in ascending order.…
The document describes a manual trading tool with buttons to open and close positions and settings for stop losses, take profits, trailing exits, and trade size. It outlines both per-trade controls and a basket-level protocol that can close all positions…
The document describes a trading utility that helps close positions according to a configured stop-loss amount and a take-profit multiple of that amount. The stop-loss input must be negative. It describes two stop-loss approaches: setting a stop on an order…
This document describes an MQL5 library for storing tick records in a compact format. It retains selected fields from the standard tick structure, including timestamps, bid and ask prices, last price, volume, and flags. Example scripts retrieve ticks, save…
This brief example describes a short-selling strategy that opens an initial position, then responds to price movement with either a cover or an added short. It closes the position when the buy price falls below the entry price by a specified profit…
RingSystemEA is described as a multi-currency expert advisor that forms currency rings from a configurable set of three to eight currencies. The user selects currencies through an external parameter and attaches the expert to a single chart; the chart and…
This article reviews a two-month program in which individuals used market-making bots to provide liquidity for the ONE token on Binance. It examines participation, filled order volume, user retention, activity by weekly cohorts, and the program’s share of…
A BigQuant user asks why a strategy continues to submit buy orders even though the platform logs cancel them for insufficient cash. The example allocates a daily portion of portfolio value, reads the reported cash balance, calculates an order value, and…
This brief BigQuant assignment proposes a contrarian stock strategy based on the idea that unusually low trading activity may accompany a price low. It buys the five stocks with the lowest turnover and holds them for five days, seeking a reversal. The…
This article describes a discretionary intraday approach to trading an existing stock position in an effort to lower its effective cost. It distinguishes buying before selling in an uptrend from selling before buying in a downtrend, and frames entries around…
The guide explains how to authorize OctoBot Cloud to trade through a Coinbase account using API credentials. The setup involves creating a key in Coinbase, choosing the intended wallet, enabling trading permission, adding OctoBot’s IP addresses to the key’s…
HyperEVM divides transaction throughput across two interleaved block types: small blocks produced frequently and larger blocks produced less often. This design separates confirmation speed from block capacity, aiming to let users benefit from faster…
This guide outlines how to move a strategy from backtesting or simulation into Supermind’s live research-trading environment. It describes logging in to a simulated or funded account, creating live-trading code, and adapting a backtest template to initialize…
The document explains V1 strategies as configurable algorithmic trading templates that monitor trading pairs on one or more exchanges. It distinguishes strategy logic, which defines behavior in code, from user-set parameters such as spread and order size,…
The strategy compares two portfolios drawn from a basket of cryptocurrencies: one is rebalanced daily to equal weights, while the other starts equally weighted and is left to drift. It takes a long position in the rebalanced portfolio and a short position in…
TimerEA is an expert advisor for opening and closing orders at specified dates and times on the symbol to which it is attached. Scheduling can be based on a day of the week or a day of the year. It supports market orders as well as pending stop and limit…
This guide explains how to run trading strategies against historical market data in OctoBot. The workflow is to select a profile, download data for the desired pairs and timeframes, run the backtest, and review the report. It describes how starting funds and…
The document explains a forex scalping system based on price briefly crossing a confirmed swing high or low, then closing back through it. The system marks the sweep candle as a potential order block and waits for a later candle to break back through its…
The author recounts moving from manual trading to automated strategies. An early setup sent TradingView entry signals to FMZ for take-profit and stop-loss handling; the author reports that unreliable signals, unstable profits, platform rental, and trading…
The document explains how conditional stop-loss and take-profit orders work for futures positions on Kraken Pro. A stop loss is intended to close a position if the market moves adversely through a chosen level; a take-profit order closes it at a specified…
The indicator identifies candidate liquidity zones from repeated wick tests that fail to close through a candle-body reference level. It maintains separate upside and downside references, counts contacts only when tests are sufficiently spaced, and confirms…
This example configures a live trading framework to connect to Derive’s test environment and exercise its built-in execution tester on an ETH perpetual instrument. At startup, the strategy can open a position using an immediate-or-cancel order and maintain…