The strategy aims to capture potential trends, retracements, and breakouts. It is a standard trading approach.
Although mostly discretionary, to aggressively capture opportunities, signals for “Entry Imminent” and “Line Break” are displayed.
Explanation for Short (Sell) Trades
- On the 1-hour chart, confirm a potential downtrend and check for a break of the swing low.
- Switch to the 5-minute chart and observe retracement. It is preferable if an uptrend forms on the 5-minute chart.
- On the 5-minute chart, confirm that the price resumes the trend direction after retracement. Check for a break of the swing low.
- Enter the trade.
- To confirm a potential trend, a down signal is displayed on the 1-hour chart when a moving average dead cross occurs.
- To confirm retracement, a down signal is displayed on the 5-minute chart when a moving average golden cross occurs.
- Manually draw a swing low line on the 5-minute chart and update it as needed.
- To confirm resumption of trend direction after retracement, an “O” signal is displayed on the 5-minute chart when the price breaks the swing low line.
- Enter the trade.
- Set at the most recent high on the 5-minute chart.
- Close the trade if the price breaks above the retracement high.
- H4 : A down signal is displayed when the price is below SMA 20.
- H1 : A down signal is displayed when SMA 20 is below SMA 80.
- M5 : A down signal is displayed when SMA 20 is above SMA 60.
- M5 : An “O” signal is displayed when the open and close prices cross the line.
- M5 : An “O” signal is displayed if a line has been drawn manually.
- An entry signal is shown when signals 1-3 match. This requires manually drawing the line.
- Enter the trade when signal 4 is displayed.
- Positions are sized with 1% risk per trade.
- “PL%“ on the dashboard represents the profit/loss percentage relative to the account balance.
- The results shown are for today only.
- Monitoring 34 instruments aggressively on the 5-minute chart is very busy.
- Consider using higher timeframes.
- The line-cross signal only applies to lines drawn using the "Draw_HL_LH_Line" tool.