The author warns that rented strategies can display steadily rising live curves while concealing a risk of catastrophic loss. They describe systems resembling martingale or complex hedged, locked-position approaches, and recount a trader who ran several…
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The document describes an account-level risk utility for prop-firm evaluations. Attached to one chart, it monitors account equity against daily loss and maximum drawdown limits. When a threshold is reached, it closes open trades, removes pending orders…
The document describes a trading expert advisor that uses fractals across two timeframes to identify support and resistance, with entries based on the open candle. It lists configurable controls for trade sizing, moving averages, stop loss and take profit,…
This sector-rotation study uses the absorption ratio to measure how concentrated the risks embedded in a group of asset returns are. The ratio reflects the share of total return variation explained by a small set of orthogonal components: higher readings are…
This Chinese-language post describes a momentum-oriented stock screen using three conditions: position growth above 5% for the day, moving averages spreading upward, and at least two limit-up sessions within the prior 500 days. The rationale is that rising…
The document introduces NFTs as blockchain tokens whose metadata points to a file or other asset. It distinguishes ownership of the token from copyright or other intellectual property rights: buyers can generally verify and transfer the token’s ownership,…
This MetaTrader 5 expert advisor places a buy stop above the previous daily bar’s high and a sell stop below its low, with an optional price offset. It removes its existing pending orders when it begins a new trading day, then submits the new pair if trading…
This 2018 report reviews managed futures, including how CTA strategies trade futures and options and how they differ by analysis method, trading style, holding period, and markets covered. It describes systematic and discretionary approaches alongside trend…
The discussion clarifies that a strategy’s position variable represents net exposure. A long position of one unit followed by an additional short opening trade of one unit nets to zero in that variable, rather than retaining separate counts for long and…
This reference lists configurable controls for a pure market-making strategy and explains how to change them through the client’s configuration commands or by editing a strategy configuration file. It groups settings for quote levels and spacing, inventory…
This strategy waits for price to break above the upper band of a Bollinger Band calculated over a long period, then enter short after price closes back below that band. It sets a stop loss at one ATR and a take profit at 1.5 ATR, using volatility-based…
This dashboard description explains how Pearson correlations across symbols and timeframes can support trading decisions. A color-coded matrix is intended to show positive and negative relationships, with selectable daily and intraday views. The examples…
This article outlines an asset allocation method that combines risk parity with the Black-Litterman framework. Risk parity portfolio weights serve as prior weights, which are used to infer prior expected returns. Short-term momentum views are then…
This article explains how to model multi-stock trading as a Markov decision process and train a deep deterministic policy gradient (DDPG) agent with FinRL. The state includes prices, holdings, and cash; actions change holdings through buying, selling, or…
This indicator guide divides intraday trading into Asian, London, and New York session windows, including separate New York morning, lunch, and afternoon periods. It marks each window’s high and low as chart zones, then extends prior session levels as pivots…
This introductory guide explains call and put options, the distinction between in-, at-, and out-of-the-money contracts, and key features of China’s 50ETF options, including contract size, exercise style, settlement, and price limits. It emphasizes that…
This guide explains the CTA strategy workflow in VeighNa Fusion, from connecting to the trading gateway and creating a strategy instance to configuring parameters, initializing, starting, and stopping it. Each instance has its own target contract, parameter…
This post describes a Chinese A-share screening rule that combines daily price movement, company size, profitability, and a reversal signal. It selects stocks with an intraday high-low range of at least one percent, positive net profit, and market…
This essay groups purportedly successful stock market participants into six styles: patient traders who wait for rare setups, long-term value investors, specialists focused on one stock, short-term leaders-of-the-hot-sector traders, traders who repeat a…
This post describes a Chinese equity screening rule that combines prior-day price amplitude above 1%, an appearance on the prior day’s Dragon-Tiger list, and turnover between 2% and 9%. It frames the combination as a way to find volatile, actively traded…
This A-share screening proposal combines three conditions: intraday amplitude above 1%, at least five overlapping moving averages, and a gain below 6% at 9:25. Its explanation treats the overlap and amplitude filters as signals of relatively stable price…
This brief description identifies an Expert Advisor based on a trading system called Pendulum. Its only stated operating constraint is that it keeps no more than three positions open at a time. The text names the idea's originator and the code author, but…
The article argues that no single programming language is best for every algorithmic trading system. It recommends starting with system requirements and strategy characteristics, then selecting tools for separate components such as historical research,…
This page reports live performance statistics for a trading robot labeled as a Polymarket signal source, operating on a five-minute chart interval. The displayed status and logs show directional UP or DOWN signals, a price-to-beat reference, and whether…