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A Bar-Close Expert Advisor Using Semaphore Arrow Signals

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Summary

This Expert Advisor trades from signals produced by a separate Simple Trading System indicator. It acts when a bar closes and a colored arrow is present. The indicator must be installed as a compiled file for the advisor to run. A supporting trade library is mentioned for broker environments with nonzero spreads and for placing stop-loss and take-profit levels with an opening order.

The document reports that a test was run on USDJPY using six-hour bars during 2014, and says the displayed test used default advisor inputs without stop-loss or take-profit settings. It provides no numerical performance statistics or enough detail to assess costs, execution assumptions, parameter sensitivity, or robustness. The results therefore describe a limited historical test setup, not evidence that the arrow signal is profitable or suitable for live trading.

Key ideas

  • The advisor uses colored arrows from a separate indicator as its trading signals.
  • A signal is acted on at bar close.
  • The compiled indicator file is a required dependency.
  • The described historical test used USDJPY six-hour data from 2014 and omitted stop loss and take profit.
  • No quantitative performance measures or robustness analysis are provided.

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ForexTechnical indicatorsBacktesting

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