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This Expert Advisor description explains how to configure separate long and short trading systems around changes in the color of the XDidi Index Cloud indicator. Each side has its own magic number, position sizing settings, and entry and exit switches,…
This post presents a Pine strategy example built around three exponential moving averages. It defines a bullish condition when the shortest average is above the middle average and the middle is above the longest, and a bearish condition when that ordering is…
The document describes a chart indicator built around a TimeZonePivots channel. It marks candlesticks that extend beyond the channel’s upper or lower limits, using candle colors to distinguish whether the move agrees with the prevailing trend. Trend-aligned…
This stock screen combines three conditions: a rising 30-day moving average, a 60-day moving average below 60, and convergence among the 20-, 50-, 100-, 200-, and 60-day averages. The post frames the five averages as short-, medium-, and long-term trend…
This MetaTrader Expert Advisor uses a custom Breakout Bars Trend indicator to trade trend reversals. It opens a position when the indicator changes direction, or can wait until the current reversal follows a configured number of false signals. A signal is…
The document presents an indicator framework that combines nested swing detection, structural trend changes, Fibonacci retracements, and engulfing candlestick patterns. Short-, intermediate-, and long-term swings are used to identify increasingly significant…
This description outlines an Expert Advisor based on the MALR indicator. It opens short positions when price crosses the indicator’s upper line downward and opens long positions when price crosses its lower line upward. Optional controls include adding a…
OscSAR_Histogram displays the difference between the closing price and the iSAR indicator as a colored histogram, with the difference expressed in points. This provides a visual measure of how far the close is from the Parabolic SAR value; the document does…
This indicator combines 20-period Bollinger Bands with a 14-period ADX reading to adjust trailing-stop locations and the width of a possible turning or ranging zone. ADX is scaled and capped to produce a trend-strength factor: stronger readings move the…
This Chinese-language post describes an equity screen requiring a daily price range threshold, company scale above a stated minimum, and the 20-day moving average above the 120-day moving average. It frames the moving-average relationship as a trend filter…
The Bollinger Bandit combines moving-average bands with a directional filter. It considers long entries when price is below the upper band and the close is higher than it was 30 days earlier; short entries use the corresponding lower-band condition and a…
The N Reversal Detector is a configurable chart indicator that combines reversal patterns with an optional trend filter. Users can define the prevailing trend with a fast and slow moving-average comparison, an ATR-based Supertrend, or Donchian Channel highs…
Corrected JMA is described as a variation on the Jurik Moving Average. It uses the JMA as a reference for measuring price deviations, then flattens the indicator’s value when those deviations are judged insignificant. This is intended to make directional…
The document introduces MACD as a momentum and trend indicator derived from the difference between a short-period and a long-period exponential moving average. It describes the signal line as an EMA of MACD and the histogram as the difference between those…
This quickstart walks through a bar-based exponential moving average crossover strategy in a backtesting engine. The strategy waits for its fast and slow averages to initialize, then buys when the fast average is at or above the slow one and sells when it is…
The document explains Supertrend as an ATR-based trend-following indicator that plots a changing support or resistance band. It describes how volatility sets the band width and how the line changes sides when price movement signals a trend reversal. An…
The document describes a forex chart indicator that assigns a degree value to price position on the active timeframe and alerts when the trend state changes. It divides readings into bearish, bullish, and stronger versions of each state, with degree ranges…
This indicator description adds a three-level trend-strength display to the i-CAi indicator. It calculates standard deviation and compares it with two user-set thresholds. When the value falls between the thresholds, a small colored dot appears on the moving…
This essay argues that a trading system only helps when a trader can follow it and its demands fit the trader’s goals, temperament, and market. It outlines four recurring price structures—triangular consolidations, directional channels, ranges, and expanding…
This note describes an equity screen that ranks stocks by a capital-strength measure, such as turnover or volume ratio, and filters for turnover between 2% and 9%. It also requires the 20-day moving average to be above the 120-day moving average, using the…
This brief description introduces a two moving average crossover strategy. A trader chooses a shorter and a longer averaging period, then uses their intersection to identify a possible position entry. It gives a 50-day and 200-day pair as an example, but…
The document explains an adaptive lookback method for moving averages. It estimates a variable period by counting how many price bars are needed for a chosen number of swing highs or lows to form, then dividing the bar count by the swing count and rounding.…
This indicator combines an ATR-distance trailing stop with a candle-based estimate of buying and selling volume. It allocates bar volume according to candle range and open-close structure, averages the estimated buy and sell components, and normalizes their…
This Expert Advisor is described as trading changes in the direction of a custom Triple Exponential Moving Average indicator. It forms a signal when a bar closes and the indicator changes direction. Running the advisor requires a separately compiled…