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VR Breakdown Level is a breakout strategy that records the high and low of a prior period, with the period length chosen in the trading robot’s settings. At the beginning of each new period, it saves those levels. If price crosses the prior high, it opens a…
This document describes an Expert Advisor built around a moving average with a fixed period of 55. Users can adjust its timeframe, horizontal shift, smoothing method, and applied price. The EA checks for signals only when a new bar forms and during a…
This document describes an account dashboard for tracking five common proprietary trading challenge constraints: daily loss, maximum loss, profit target, minimum trading days, and the best-day consistency rule. It explains that loss limits can be configured…
This strategy organizes research and trading for same-day-expiration bear call spreads through separate agents. A researcher gathers account and market information, checks the listed expiration, contract Greeks, and bid-ask quality, then identifies a short…
This expert advisor monitors open positions across symbols and magic numbers. After a position has been open for a configurable number of seconds, it checks whether profit has reached a configured threshold in points. If the threshold is met, the advisor…
This document outlines a proposed position-sizing engine for algorithmic trading. It combines Kelly sizing, which uses estimated win rate and payoff ratio, with volatility adjustment based on Average True Range and tick value. The stated goal is to reduce…
This expert adviser seeks pivot points using only the current and previous bars, then enters market orders when price appears to attempt a trend reversal. It does not use technical indicators. Orders can have configured take-profit and stop-loss levels;…
The article explains a countertrend martingale approach in which a trader adds to a losing position at set price intervals, hoping a later reversal will recover accumulated losses. It works through a foreign exchange example with equal size additions and…
The document explains that MetaTrader 5 exposes generic, loss-side, and profit-side tick values for each symbol, and that these values may not be identical. This matters when an expert advisor calculates trade size from a risk budget: using a tick value that…
The document outlines a MetaTrader 5 expert advisor that combines moving average crossover signals with grid entries. It describes using fast and slow simple moving averages on an hourly chart, with volume and volatility checks to filter signals. Additional…
This Expert Advisor generates signals from intersections of TDI-2 indicator lines, evaluated when a bar closes. It follows the direction of the signal and adds to an existing position when the profit from the most recent trade, measured in points, exceeds a…
The document describes a short-term DAX strategy on five-minute bars that trades breaks of the prior day’s high or low during a morning window. Long entries require price above a 14-period moving average and are allowed Monday through Thursday, with up to…
Daily BreakPoint is described as a breakout strategy that enters when price moves beyond the prior daily bar by a specified number of points. Its inputs include the breakout distance, minimum and maximum sizes for the last bar, stop loss, take profit, and…
This document explains an expert advisor that manages a sequence of positions using a martingale volume multiplier. A new position’s size is calculated by multiplying the previous position’s volume, while user-set distances determine when the next position…
This assignment response translates two discretionary stock approaches into rule-based proposals. One combines recent institutional fund inflows, positive company earnings, improving per-share profit, elevated trading volume, and a price ceiling relative to…
RiskPerTrade is described as an MT5 tool that displays trading information as percentages instead of monetary amounts. Its stated purpose is to help traders manage emotional reactions, such as holding losing trades too long or closing winners too early, by…
The document presents a small open-source shield intended to check trading against prop firm account limits. Its usage outline initializes the tool with account balance and a firm profile, then updates it with equity and balance information on each tick.…
The proposed screen combines three stock characteristics: price amplitude above one, a circulating share count no greater than 5.5 billion, and a 20-day concentration measure below 70%. The article presents the amplitude condition as a way to find more…
This beginner-oriented guide recommends planning trades in advance, researching assets before buying, and avoiding impulsive decisions driven by hype or fear of missing out. It advocates diversification across crypto assets, monitoring Bitcoin as a possible…
This brief script description outlines a tool for estimating the margin needed to open a trade at a specified volume. It also says the tool calculates the maximum number of lots that can be traded for a chosen symbol. The only example identified is CADJPY…
This expert advisor uses three moving averages to define entry conditions. A buy opens when the fast average crosses above the middle average while both remain below the slow average. The sell condition reverses the crossover direction and requires the fast…
This brief template note describes a stock-screening strategy that selects companies using natural-language queries. Its example combines a small-market-cap screen with recent net inflows from large investors, a prior period of contracting volume, and a…
This forum post asks how to use pyramiding in a strategy that combines a higher-level long signal with lower-level entry and exit signals. The author wants to add long entries whenever the smaller-scale long condition occurs while the larger long condition…
This document describes an expert advisor that closes open trades and pending orders when account-equity thresholds for profit or loss are reached. The thresholds are stated in account currency: a profit target should be above current equity, while a loss…