Smoothed-Candle Breakout Expert Advisor and Its Test Setup

Summary

This document describes a forex Expert Advisor that trades breakouts around a smoothed-candle indicator. A trade signal is evaluated when a bar closes: the breakout level must be above the indicator candle’s high or below its low. The page refers to a compiled indicator file that the terminal must have available, but it does not explain the indicator calculation or the full entry and exit rules.

The reported test used the default Expert Advisor parameters on USD/CHF four-hour bars for 2011. Stop-loss and take-profit settings were not used. The document points to charts of deal history and testing results, but supplies no numerical performance statistics in the text. This is therefore a narrow description of the trigger and test configuration, not enough information to assess robustness, costs, risk, or reproducibility; the lack of protective exits is a notable limitation of the described test setup.

Key ideas

• The Expert Advisor uses breakouts relative to the high and low of a smoothed-candle indicator.
• Signals are assessed at bar close when the stated breakout condition is met.
• The example test used USD/CHF four-hour data for 2011 and default parameters.
• The test omitted stop-loss and take-profit settings, limiting what can be inferred about risk control.
• The document mentions result charts but provides no numerical performance measures in its text.

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