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 expert advisor uses a Doji candle as a setup and waits for the next completed candle to confirm a directional break. When a new bar appears, it checks the two preceding bars: if the older candle qualifies as a Doji, a close of the newer candle above the…
This Expert Advisor contains two Vortex Indicator trading systems, one for long trades and one for short trades. Each side has its own settings, including a distinct magic number and position-sizing method, and can be enabled or disabled independently. The…
OsMaSter is an expert advisor that opens positions with a fixed volume and uses specified stop-loss and take-profit levels. The document lists its basic settings, including position volume and an identifier for the EA, but does not explain the entry or exit…
This annotated strategy describes a directional grid that can operate buy-first or sell-first. In buy-first mode, it places a sequence of buy orders below an initial price at fixed intervals. When a buy fills, it places a sell order above that fill by a…
This tool description explains an expert advisor that monitors the combined net profit of a user-selected basket of currency pairs. It closes positions across the monitored pairs when the basket reaches a specified profit target; settings also include a…
The document describes KRev, an indicator intended to estimate the currency risk per unit of a position if price reaches the third Kase Dev Stop. Traders can use that estimate to compare markets or time frames with a fixed per-unit risk limit. The…
This document describes a MetaTrader 5 SuperTrend indicator that adapts its volatility bands and selected trade parameters using prior signal outcomes. It offers reversal and failed-breakout signal modes, with optional confirmation from RSI, tick-volume…
This product description outlines an automated trading system that uses an “Accelerator” indicator and trades from the open price of a candle. It says the EA is intended for major forex pairs and NASDAQ stocks, across timeframes, and recommends trying it on…
This document describes a multi-coin spot strategy for Binance and OK accounts, with configurable entry sizes, add-on signals, take-profit signals, and order execution. It distinguishes market-style tracking from limit orders: tracking can respond to…
This essay argues that simulated trading can test whether a strategy is viable before risking real capital, while acknowledging that success in simulation does not guarantee live profits. It presents practice as a way to learn execution details and reduce…
The system opens an initial position at a fixed lot size when the DeMarker indicator permits entry. If a position is already open and price moves a specified distance from the most recent entry, another position may be added when the indicator again allows…
The document describes a manual trading tool with buttons to open and close positions and settings for stop losses, take profits, trailing exits, and trade size. It outlines both per-trade controls and a basket-level protocol that can close all positions…
This short description introduces an MQL5 library for calculating Optimal f, a position-sizing method based on Ralph Vince’s work on money management. The author explains that the library was pursued as an alternative to the Kelly Criterion, which they…
The document describes a trading utility that helps close positions according to a configured stop-loss amount and a take-profit multiple of that amount. The stop-loss input must be negative. It describes two stop-loss approaches: setting a stop on an order…
This article walks through a deliberately random directional strategy for dYdX. It selects long or short entries with equal probability, uses fixed profit and loss thresholds to exit, and increases the next order size after a loss while resetting size after…
This brief example describes a short-selling strategy that opens an initial position, then responds to price movement with either a cover or an added short. It closes the position when the buy price falls below the entry price by a specified profit…
A BigQuant user asks why a strategy continues to submit buy orders even though the platform logs cancel them for insufficient cash. The example allocates a daily portion of portfolio value, reads the reported cash balance, calculates an order value, and…
This Expert Advisor runs separate long and short systems using configurable ColorMETRO signals. Each direction has independent settings for sizing and a rule that examines recent trades in that direction. If the specified count of losses appears within the…
The document describes a trading robot that opens equal-volume long and short positions in the same asset, creating a lock whose opposing price exposure offsets at the position level. It then outlines ways to manage that locked position: average into both…
The BS Living Now indicator marks chart highs and lows using filters that differ from those in the standard Bill Williams Fractals indicator. Its period parameter controls how many extrema appear: a larger setting produces fewer marks, while a smaller one…
This Backtrader example combines two entry and exit signals on a selected data feed: a short and long simple moving average crossover, and a MACD line crossing its signal line. Each bullish crossover adds half of the strategy's target stake, while bearish…
ZoneUS30 is an Expert Advisor for the US30 index that opens short positions when its internal conditions detect an upward price extension that may be followed by a correction. The approach combines counter-trend mean reversion with the possibility of…
TimerEA is an expert advisor for opening and closing orders at specified dates and times on the symbol to which it is attached. Scheduling can be based on a day of the week or a day of the year. It supports market orders as well as pending stop and limit…
The question asks how to limit the capital assigned to any one stock to 20% of the portfolio. The response refers to a calculated weight for a stock and places an order targeting a percentage of portfolio value. This points to a useful portfolio-construction…