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Supertrend Indicator for MT5: Install It, Run 10/3 on M30, and Skip the H1 Filter
How to add Supertrend to MetaTrader 5 in two minutes, and which settings the data supports: 10/3 on M30 made +1.62 pips…
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Supertrend on MT5 vs MT4: MT5’s Extra M10 and M20 Charts Lost Where MT4’s M30 Made Money
Supertrend 10/3 rebuilt on nine timeframes from 16,926 EURUSD and 13,736 gold 5-minute bars. MT5-only M10 and M20 lost on both markets;…
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Supertrend Settings Tested: All 16 Lost on EURUSD M5, and the Default 10/3 Ranked 7th
ATR period 7, 10, 14 and 20 against multiplier 1.5, 2, 3 and 4 on 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars, always in the…
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Best MT4 Settings for Gold Scalping: 37 Tested, Only 5 Survived Both Halves and Double the Spread
16 Supertrend combinations, 5 EMA pairs, 8 RSI setups and 8 ATR stop settings tested on gold M5 across a month when…
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Gold vs EURUSD: Same Rules, Same Code — the Spread Was 7% of a Gold Bar and 75% of a EURUSD Bar
Six rules run with identical code on 13,736 gold and 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars. Every EURUSD scalping rule lost after a 1-pip…
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Gold Scalping Session by Session: The Busiest Hours Paid the Least on 13,736 XAUUSD Bars
Four gold scalping rules — EMA 9/21 cross, RSI 7 fade, 1-hour breakout and Bollinger fade — run through Asia, London, the…
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Multi-Indicator MT4 Template: 23 of 192 Made Money, and All 23 Shared One Base
Eight entry signals, eight filter choices and three holding times — 192 templates built only from MT4's own standard indicators, tested on…
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Indicator Combos vs Their Own Parts: All Eight Finished Below Their Best Half
The eight most-taught indicator combinations — RSI + MACD, RSI + Stochastic + MACD, MACD + moving average cross and five more…
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Indicator Combinations Tested: A Coin Flip Confirmed Better Than All 56 Real Pairs
Eight standard indicators reduced to one bullish-or-bearish state and run through every one of the 56 confirmation pairs on 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute…
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Support and Resistance Indicator for MT4: 16 of 144 Variants Survived, All in the Same Three Hours
Four swing windows, three zone widths, three holding times and four filters — 144 combinations on 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars. 115 finished…
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Support and Resistance vs Fibonacci: Eight Ways to Draw a Level, All Within Six Points
Swing highs, daily pivots, Fibonacci retracements, round numbers and Bollinger Bands measured with one identical touch rule on the same 16,926 EURUSD…
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Support and Resistance Tested: Random Levels Held Better Than Real Ones
Swing highs and lows coded as a rule and measured across 8,092 touches on 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars. The levels held 56.3%…
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Candlestick Pattern Settings for MT4: 7 of 59 Variants Beat the Spread
Wick ratios, body-to-ATR filters, holding periods, sessions, trend filters and indicator confirmations — 59 variants on the same 16,926 bars, seven of…
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Candlestick Patterns vs MACD: Confirmation Agreed 46% and Contradicted 46%
Give MACD an hour either side of an engulfing bar and it fires near 92% of the time, agreeing 46.4% and disagreeing…
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Candlestick Patterns Tested: The Reversal Signal Continued the Move 58% of the Time
Engulfing bars, pin bars and stars coded as rules and run over 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars. All three were followed by a…
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MACD Settings for MT4: The Default 12/26/9 Finished 6th of 9
Nine setting combinations, one rule, the same 16,926 bars. Three were positive before costs and none after. The signal line mattered more…
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MACD vs Moving Average Crossover: 677 of 677 Signals Were the Same Bar
The MACD zero line is not similar to an EMA 12/26 crossover — it is that crossover, on all 677 signals, with…
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MACD Crossover Tested: 63% of 1,482 Signals Reversed Within the Hour
MACD 12/26/9 on 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars produced 1,482 crossings, one an hour, split exactly 741 up and 741 down. The median…
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RSI Divergence Indicator for MT4: The Settings That Tested Best
MT4 has RSI but no divergence, so every rule is your decision. Twelve setting combinations on 16,926 bars: three-bar swing points lost…
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RSI Divergence vs RSI Overbought: 92 Signals Beat 436
Same bars, same two-hour hold. Divergence made +133 pips across 92 trades; the textbook exit from 30/70 lost 231 across 436. After…
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RSI Divergence Tested: 75% of the Move Was Gone Before the Signal Appeared
104 divergences on 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars. Entered at the pivot, they won 66.3% and made 544 pips. Entered at the bar…
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Parabolic SAR Settings for MT4: Raising the Maximum Moved 2 Flips Out of 1,182
MT4 gives you Step and Maximum, and only one of them does anything. Eight settings tested on 16,926 bars: the best was…
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Parabolic SAR vs Supertrend: 78.7% Agreement, and a 2.9-Pip Split at Hour Eight
Two trend indicators pointed the same way four days out of five. At a two-hour hold SAR was 1.34 pips better; at…
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Parabolic SAR Tested: The Stop-and-Reverse Rule Lost 1,094 Pips in 1,182 Trades
Traded the way Wilder wrote it, Parabolic SAR won 28.5% of 1,182 trades and lost 1,094 pips. The entry was not the…
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How to Backtest an EA on MT5: Every Step, and the Four Numbers That Lie
The clicks that run the Strategy Tester, the modelling setting that decides whether the report is real, and the Forward checkbox that…
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Optimized vs Default Indicator Settings: The Optimizer Won 3 of 4 and Still Lost to the Spread
Textbook settings against settings tuned on history, judged on six weeks neither had seen. Optimised finished +54.2 pips against -86.1 — and…
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EA Settings Optimization Tested: 519 Pips In-Sample Became 4.4 Out-of-Sample
I optimised 129 parameter sets on half of 16,926 EURUSD bars and ran the winners on the half they had never seen.…
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Best Free MT4 Buy Sell Indicators: The Settings That Tested Best
You do not need to download anything — MT4 already ships the two arrow logics that scored best. Here are the input…
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Why Arrow Indicators Repaint: 88.2% in History, 46.7% Live, Same Arrows
The same ZigZag arrows on the same 16,926 bars score 41.5 points apart depending on when you are allowed to click. And…
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Buy Sell Signal Indicators: 4 Free Ones Tested, The Best Made 0.08 Pips
Four common free arrow logics, 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars, no discretion. Win rates of 43.8% to 46.7%, and every one of them…
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