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Three Bollinger Bands strategies, 12 settings each, on 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars with a 1-pip cost. Fading the default 20/2 won 60.3% of trades and lost 0.34 pips per trade because losers were 1.7 times the winners. Waiting for a close back inside made every setting worse, walking the band lost everywhere, and only 10/2.5 stayed positive — by 0.05 pips.
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How to add Supertrend to MetaTrader 5 in two minutes, and which settings the data supports: 10/3 on M30 made +1.62 pips per trade on EURUSD while all 16 settings lost on M5. A 450-point check found no repainting on closed bars, the H1 agreement filter made each trade worse, and ATR smoothing changed the signal on 7.54% of bars.
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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; M30 was the only positive EURUSD timeframe at +1.62 pips per trade and held in both halves. The ATR smoothing inside your Supertrend file changed the direction on 7.54% of bars.
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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 market with a 1-pip cost. Every setting lost, even before the spread. The multiplier decided trade count while the period barely mattered, and the popular scalping tweak 14/2 lost 827.8 more pips than the default 10/3.
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16 Supertrend combinations, 5 EMA pairs, 8 RSI setups and 8 ATR stop settings tested on gold M5 across a month when gold fell $233.80 and a month when it rose $557.90. Every Supertrend setting lost in the falling half. The best scalping setting — EMA 9/21 with a 2×ATR stop and 2R target — made +$1.52 per trade over 308 trades and stayed positive in both halves, on both sides and at double the spread.
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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 spread, including two fades that captured +0.44 and +0.35 ATR before costs; on gold the same rules sat near break-even. The EMA 50/200 cross made +$501 on gold and lost 137.5 pips on EURUSD.
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Four gold scalping rules — EMA 9/21 cross, RSI 7 fade, 1-hour breakout and Bollinger fade — run through Asia, London, the London–New York overlap and the New York afternoon on 13,736 5-minute bars. The overlap moved gold the most and averaged -$0.41 per trade with 2 of 8 tests positive; the quiet New York afternoon averaged +$0.85 with 7 of 8 positive.
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Eight entry signals, eight filter choices and three holding times — 192 templates built only from MT4’s own standard indicators, tested on 16,926 EURUSD 5-minute bars. 32 finished positive before costs and 23 after a 1-pip spread, and every single survivor ran the 50/200 EMA cross as its entry. Which input decides the result, which one does nothing, and how to build the surviving template in MT4 in about two minutes.
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The eight most-taught indicator combinations — RSI + MACD, RSI + Stochastic + MACD, MACD + moving average cross and five more — measured against the single indicators inside them on the same 16,926 EURUSD bars. Every combination finished below its best component in pips per trade, six of eight below both halves, and the four-indicator stack finished last at 42.1%. The only profitable combo made 40% less than one of its own halves.
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