Matúš German’s ATR Channel Trend-Following Expert Advisor

Summary

In this championship interview, Matúš German describes a multicurrency Expert Advisor built around trend following. It derives trading channels from the Average True Range indicator, enters when price breaks a channel, and holds positions until price crosses in the opposite direction. He says the multiple-currency design was chosen for diversification and that position sizing uses a simple relationship to account equity.

German presents the system as an experimental base rather than a live-ready strategy. He reports testing and optimizing it only on the prior year, with drawdowns followed by recoveries in that test, but gives no detailed performance statistics or out-of-sample evidence. He also says the contest version is deliberately risky, keeps positions open, and may be vulnerable to weekend moves; competition results and a brief test do not establish robustness. The interview highlights the gap between a strategy suited to a high-risk contest and one designed for live trading.

Key ideas

• The Expert Advisor uses ATR-derived channels to adapt breakout thresholds to market conditions.
• It enters on a channel break and exits when price crosses the channel in the opposite direction.
• The system trades multiple currencies and uses simple equity-based money management.
• The author characterizes the contest implementation as risky and unsuitable for live trading in its current form.
• Testing covered only the prior year, so the interview offers limited evidence of robustness.

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