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Session-Based Capital Rotation with ATR-Confirmed Breakouts

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Summary

This article outlines a multi-instrument Expert Advisor that assigns separate risk budgets to Asian, London, and New York sessions. It proposes trading selected instruments during each session and sizing positions from the remaining session risk and stop distance, subject to a daily risk ceiling. Its entry model tracks session highs and lows and uses ATR-based volatility thresholds to distinguish breakouts from moves that may fail; failed moves may be faded. Profitable positions can carry across session changes, while losing ones may be closed.

The document supplies example settings and implementation structures, then describes a backtest over roughly two months. It gives no readable equity curve or detailed performance statistics in the provided text, so the effectiveness of the method cannot be assessed from the reported evidence. Session times, instrument behavior, broker time, and the chosen risk assumptions may affect results; the allocation framework is presented as adaptable rather than universally validated.

Key ideas

  • The system divides a daily risk budget among market sessions using equal or manual allocations.
  • Position size depends on remaining session risk, stop distance, and pip value.
  • Session highs and lows combined with ATR thresholds define volatility-confirmed breakout levels.
  • The proposed instrument list and session behavior are assumptions that require testing in the trader's own market and time zone.
  • The provided backtest description lacks detailed performance statistics for evaluating the strategy.

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