Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
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This script sets a stop loss for each open position so that a hit would produce an approximate loss equal to a specified amount in the account’s currency. It is intended to work across deposit currencies and forex symbols by using the platform’s loss tick…
This document describes a chart indicator for estimating potential profit or loss from a trade size, or estimating the size needed to reach a chosen profit or loss. The user selects which value to enter; the indicator calculates the other value and displays…
The document describes a trading framework built around an expert advisor with modules for price and tick pressure, recurring flow patterns, weighted volume delta, candle forecasts, volatility-adjusted thresholds, tick activity, historical forecast accuracy,…
The OzFx description combines the Stochastic Oscillator with the Accelerator Oscillator to generate entry signals. A buy requires the Stochastic reading on the latest completed bar to exceed a chosen level, while the Accelerator reading rises from below zero…
The document describes an MT4 trading panel intended to let a trader set stop-loss and take-profit distances in pips, trade count, position size, and the instrument before placing orders. Its purpose is to make order setup faster, particularly when markets…
This document describes an MT5 chart panel for estimating trade size from a chosen percentage of account balance. The trader positions two horizontal chart lines to set low and high price levels, which the panel uses to preview buy and sell lot sizes…
Elder’s Safe Zone Triple extends Alexander Elder’s Safe Zone indicator by displaying three lines with separate settings. The stated purpose is to estimate stop-loss levels that remain close enough to price to protect accumulated gains while leaving enough…
The forum question asks how to add an available-funds check when a trading framework converts an order request under lock logic. The proposed approach is to obtain account information through the main engine, read the account’s available balance, compare it…
These notes summarize Alexander Elder’s approach to trading as a discipline built on market analysis, money management, and adherence to a plan. They describe how crowd behavior shapes prices, why traders should keep a journal to identify recurring mistakes,…
This operations manual explains how a desktop terminal turns signals from simulated strategies into live equity trade plans. It describes linking an access credential, reviewing and editing proposed quantity and timing, and explicitly confirming plans before…
This short platform support exchange addresses why assigning equal target weights to five stocks may initially result in positions below the intended 20% per stock. The answer points to a trade-module setting that limits how much volume can be filled and…
This market-timing approach applies a modified MACD with parameters 20, 60, and 3 on 60-minute and 5-minute charts. It classifies bullish conditions as both lines above zero with a bullish crossover, and bearish conditions as both below zero with a bearish…
This brief note explains that an MT4 drawdown calculation can be scoped by magic number and trading symbol. Those filters make the reported drawdown apply to trades associated with a particular Expert Advisor identifier and instrument, rather than…
This Chinese-language post describes a stock-selection screen for companies classified in the metaverse sector. It selects stocks whose actual turnover rate from two sessions earlier is between 3% and 28%, while excluding stocks that closed at the prior…
The article presents five broad rules for surviving in equity markets: avoid borrowing to invest, do not rely excessively on technical analysis, combine macro views with industry and company research, remain humble about market uncertainty, and avoid…
This educational MetaTrader 5 strategy trades continuation after a qualifying gap between the prior Nikkei 225 cash-session close and the new session open. It builds an opening range from one-minute bars, calculates session VWAP, and considers a long after…
This introductory example presents a simple moving-average strategy for one Chinese-listed stock. It calculates the average closing price over the most recent five sessions and compares it with the average over twenty sessions. When the shorter average is…
The document describes an account-level risk management tool for MetaTrader 5. It outlines controls for equity drawdown, daily losses, trailing drawdown from peak equity, trading hours, spreads, position counts, total lot exposure, and daily order counts.…
This document describes an on-chart utility for managing positions already opened in MetaTrader 5. It does not generate entries or place trades; it modifies active manual positions or positions created by other expert advisors. Its stop-loss controls can…
This A-share commentary contrasts the time horizons and advantages attributed to institutions, quantitative firms, and short-term speculators, while arguing that retail traders often misread losses as deliberate targeting. Its practical advice is to focus…
The document describes an automated trading approach that opens an initial position in the direction of the current candle. When the trade moves favorably by a configured point threshold, the system adds volume to the position. It can begin trading once the…
This Python script launches a Rust grid-trading backtest for each symbol in a ticker configuration. It assembles daily market-data and latency-file paths for a specified date range, passes instrument and strategy settings to the backtest executable, and runs…
The panel description outlines tools for discretionary or automated trading execution. A position size calculator derives volume from a stop loss and a chosen risk percentage. A split-order feature divides an intended trade into two orders, with one assigned…
FMOneEA is a MetaTrader 4 expert advisor whose documented settings cover trading timeframe, lot sizing, profit targets, stop losses, trailing controls, and handling losing orders. Earlier versions used ZigZag and MACD signals on an hourly chart; a later…