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This automated trading system description outlines risk controls for an expert advisor. It calculates position size from either a chosen account-risk percentage or a fixed monetary amount, applies a maximum monetary risk cap, and can set stop losses…
This article explains random forests through CART decision trees, Gini impurity, bootstrap sampling, and aggregation. Trees are trained on resampled data, while their predictions are combined by voting for classification or averaging for regression. It also…
This brief description concerns a second version of a DeMarker Pending trading adviser. It says the earlier version was the starting point and identifies two additions: a maximum number of positions and a minimum spacing step between positions. Either…
This strategy description presents a long-only breakout approach for South Africa’s Top 40 index. It checks recent price bars against earlier highs and lows, then enters at market when the current close exceeds the highest level found in the lookback…
This Expert Advisor uses closing-bar arrows from the SilverTrend_Signal indicator to open positions. It scales an existing position when the most recent deal’s profit points exceed a threshold set in the EA inputs. A trade comment records the scale count…
This document outlines a version-two Expert Advisor that combines three moving averages with optional Stochastic and RSI filters. It can enter positions at market and place Buy Stop or Sell Stop pending orders. Its inputs cover moving-average periods and…
The strategy starts from a flat account by opening equal-sized long and short positions. When price moves by a preset step, it adds a position in the direction opposite that move, using twice the initial lot size. If price moves another step, the system…
This document describes a foreign exchange expert advisor built around breakout stop orders and hedging losing positions in an effort to close trades with an overall positive result. The version discussed adds volatility-spike entries, trend checks, hourly…
This document describes a simple countertrend Expert Advisor. When price moves by at least a configured number of points within a single tick, the system opens a position in the opposite direction. It closes the position once it has any positive profit,…
This Expert Advisor design combines signals from the Commodity Channel Index, moving averages, Stochastic, Accelerator/Decelerator, DeMarker, and Awesome Oscillator. It can use several indicators together or operate with one, and it lets traders choose…
SniperJaw is described as an automated, one-trade-at-a-time strategy that follows trends using the Alligator indicator’s Jaw, Teeth, and Lips lines. Traders can adjust the periods and shifts used for those lines, set position size, and enable or disable…
This document describes an indicator for calculating the average price at which a group of orders would close at breakeven. The trader creates virtual orders and manually sets their volumes; the indicator then computes the combined average price. Orders can…
This expert-advisor method combines Commodity Channel Index readings across four bars with open and close prices across three bars. It evaluates entry conditions shortly before a bar closes, and opens a trade only when the advisor has no existing position.…
This Chinese equity screen selects stocks with turnover between 3% and 12%, year-over-year growth in net profit attributable to parent-company shareholders above 20% and no more than 100%, and a 2019 dividend ratio above 25%. It then ranks qualifying stocks…
The author describes turning a strategy intended to earn money into one intended to accumulate bitcoin. The original approach bought cautiously and sold quickly; the reversed version spends most of its time holding the asset, sells cautiously, and buys more…
This strategy allocates a portfolio across leveraged funds tied to US stock indexes, Treasury bonds, gold, and oil and gas companies. It assigns each holding a target weight, checks the portfolio daily, and rebalances every four days by comparing each target…
This article argues that a high percentage of winning trades does not guarantee profits. It emphasizes the relationship between win rate and the relative size of gains and losses, using examples to illustrate how a strategy with fewer winning trades may…
This code example shows a scheduled strategy that checks for its first trading iteration, creates a forex asset using a configurable currency symbol, and submits a buy-to-open order for a fixed quantity. Its daily sleep interval means the strategy is…
This document describes implementation details for an MQL5 chart-based trading panel. Its key interface change is a modified spin-edit control that displays decimal values, allows direct text entry, and commits the entered text as a numeric value when…
This Expert Advisor uses the relationship between moving averages calculated on two timeframes. When the current timeframe’s average crosses the higher-timeframe average upward, it signals a long entry; a downward cross signals a short entry. A new signal…
This Expert Advisor combines two smoothed XPeriodCandle indicators across different timeframes. A slower indicator sets the prevailing trend from the color of its most recently closed candle, while a faster indicator provides entries when its candle color…
Quantora Trade Manager MT4 is described as a tool for managing positions that are already open, rather than generating signals or entering trades. Its functions include applying stop-loss and take-profit levels, moving stops to break even, and trailing stops…
This example describes a daily rule that uses CNN’s Fear & Greed Index to set exposure to SPY. A research agent retrieves a recent score, and a trading agent assigns one of five SPY allocations: full exposure at extreme fear, progressively smaller…
The described expert advisor checks for a gap between the prior bar’s close and the current bar’s open. When it detects a gap, it opens a position in the opposite direction, making the approach a simple gap-fading rule. The document identifies configurable…