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This release note describes new features and fixes in OctoBot 1.0.4. Users can download strategies from OctoBot Cloud into a self-hosted bot, then configure them for different exchanges or assets and use the platform’s backtesting or strategy design tools to…
This brief description introduces an expert advisor that places and manages pending orders. Its version 5.5 is described as working only with pending stop orders, so the stated trading mechanism is order placement rather than a fully explained entry or exit…
This guide explains how to launch an OctoBot Cloud strategy or crypto basket with real exchange funds. The user selects a strategy, chooses live trading, links an exchange API key, and starts the bot. OctoBot checks that the account has enough funds before…
This document describes a read-only MetaTrader 5 indicator for reviewing a proposed buy stop or sell stop on the chart’s current symbol. It compares the entered price and volume with broker contract details, including tick size, volume limits and increments,…
This document describes additions to a DeMarker-based trading strategy in its second version. It introduces configurable stop-loss and take-profit levels, plus a trailing activation threshold. The activation threshold is intended to move the stop to a…
DonForex MinInfo is a MetaTrader indicator for displaying basic market and chart information. It shows the current price in a large font, highlights the last digit, changes price color with movement direction, displays the spread, and estimates the time…
This document describes a trading script that places a buy stop and a sell stop at equal distances from the current price. Its input settings cover trade size, allowed price deviation, entry distance, stop loss, take profit, retry count, and the pause…
The document presents a position-sizing method that converts a chosen percentage of account equity into a trade volume. It estimates the loss for one lot from the entry-to-stop distance, tick size, and tick value, then divides the allowed monetary risk by…
This post presents a simple Chinese equity screening rule based on daily price range and turnover, while excluding stocks from the STAR Market. The intended rationale is to find shares with both price movement and trading activity, potentially suitable for…
This expert-advisor example describes a reversal rule: when a position closes at its take-profit or stop-loss, the program opens a position in the opposite direction. A buy closure is followed by a sell, and a sell closure by a buy. The explanation focuses…
This brief VeighNa community exchange answers a practical question about retaining order and execution records. A user reports that increasing a global setting did not make fill information appear in the log. The reply directs them to the main interface’s…
This document describes a chart-based tool for viewing current, minimum, and maximum spreads across instruments available in a broker’s market watch. It is intended to help traders check account-specific spread conditions and identify periods of unusually…
This short forum exchange concerns choosing a broker or trading counter for automated stock trading in China. One participant reports that a broker had announced it would stop allowing personally developed software to connect through its CTP interface.…
TangoLine is a technical indicator designed to mark rapid changes in market direction and support early entries after a reversal. It plots a central line at the midpoint of the range formed by a reversal bar, together with upper and lower lines marking that…
This documentation explains how a trading bot builds the set of markets it can trade. Pairlist handlers can start from a static whitelist or dynamically select pairs by measures such as volume or percentage change; subsequent filters can remove or reorder…
This document describes a utility library for working with floating-point numbers in trading software. Its functions cover approximate comparisons, rounding to decimal places or increments, normalization and range mapping, clamping, safe division, binary…
This MetaTrader 5 example demonstrates an EMA crossover Expert Advisor designed to illustrate implementation practices rather than a trading edge. It evaluates signals on closed bars and acts on a new bar, closing an existing position and opening in the…
This documentation describes an order event raised when a trading venue refuses a cancellation request. The execution engine applies the event to the order, updates the cache, and publishes it through the message bus. A typical state change moves an order…
This operational guide explains how to run multi-contract portfolio strategies through VeighNa Elite Trader’s PortfolioStrategy module. It covers loading strategy classes, creating instances with symbols, gateways, and typed parameters, then initializing…
The article introduces algorithmic trading as a way to automate rule based strategies and reduce some burdens of manual trading. It describes bots as tools for applying predefined entry and exit conditions across markets, including trend following,…
This document explains how NautilusTrader builds, publishes, and verifies release artifacts across Python packages, Rust crates, Docker images, and GitHub Releases. Its release process anchors package integrity to a draft GitHub release: artifacts are…
The document raises a question about why a bar-generation routine reads high_price and low_price from a tick when a tick may appear to contain only last_price. The code excerpt shows that the routine updates a bar’s high and low using the latest traded…
The document describes an automated dollar-cost averaging executor that distributes an entry or exit across a sequence of orders. Its configuration includes a market, trading pair, side, order amounts and prices, leverage, order mode, and optional profit,…
This description outlines an Expert Advisor that opens and closes orders at configured times. The user sets the opening and closing day, hour, and minute, chooses whether to open buy orders, sell orders, or both, and specifies lot size. Optional take profit…