A Pending-Order Strategy for Sudden Price Moves
Summary
The document describes an automated strategy that places buy-stop and sell-stop orders around the current price. It uses a configurable initial distance and checks the spread before placing orders; if the spread is above a set limit, it skips placement. The pending orders are then adjusted repeatedly with a trailing stop and step, with updates made at regular time intervals. The intended opportunity is a sudden, sharp move that reaches one of the orders.
Risk control is based on account equity thresholds. When the configured profit level is reached, the strategy closes all open positions to realize gains; when the loss threshold is reached, it likewise closes all positions. The document reports a brief test over a stated date range on a one-minute chart, but provides no performance figures, benchmark, transaction-cost assumptions, or details about market conditions. That limited evidence is not enough to establish robustness or expected profitability, and the method may be sensitive to spread, slippage, and abrupt reversals.
Key ideas
- The strategy places buy-stop and sell-stop orders at a configurable distance from the market price.
- A spread ceiling prevents new pending orders from being placed when trading costs are too wide.
- Pending orders are adjusted using a trailing stop at configurable intervals.
- All open positions are closed when an account equity profit or loss threshold is reached.
- The reported short test lacks performance details needed to assess reliability.
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