Session Opening-Range Breakouts with Delayed, Risk-Capped Entries

Summary

This strategy looks for breakouts beyond an opening range built during selected London and New York morning sessions. A signal requires a close outside the range, a sufficiently strong candle, and—when enabled—confirmation relative to VWAP. The strategy stores the signal and waits a configurable number of bars before entering, then rejects trades if price has retreated through the breakout level or moved too far to chase.

Stops sit just beyond the breakout level with an ATR-based buffer, subject to minimum and maximum distance limits. Contract quantity is floored from a dollar risk budget and checked against the account’s remaining drawdown allowance. Targets, breakeven adjustment, staged dollar profit locks, alerts, labels, and a live status dashboard support execution and evaluation-account controls. The supplied source is truncated, and the page gives no results or validation evidence. Its configured thresholds are examples, not proof of suitability; behavior also depends on symbol point value, chart timeframe, session clock, and fill assumptions.

Key ideas

• The setup builds an opening range and trades strong closes beyond its high or low during selected sessions.
• VWAP can filter entries, while a bar delay and chase limit seek to constrain late fills.
• Stops are placed beyond the breakout level with an ATR buffer and bounded distance.
• Position size is calculated from dollar risk and checked against remaining evaluation drawdown.
• The document provides implementation settings but no backtest results or evidence of live performance.

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This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.