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Same entry every time, only the stop moved. Results ran from -3.99 to +3.38 pips per trade, and the setting with the highest win rate was the one that lost the most money.
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Where Ichimoku lives in MT4, what each of the three inputs does, and why the most commonly recommended tweak, 10/30/60, was the worst of four settings I tested.
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The Tenkan/Kijun cross lost 392 pips on its own. The same cross, filtered only by which side of the cloud price sat on, made 308.8. The cloud is the part that works.
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The cloud breakout was the only single entry rule that finished positive in my tests. But a thick cloud protected nothing, and 30-minute holds were the worst result in the whole study.
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Where ADX lives in MT5, which settings matter, and the three rules that stop a strength gauge from turning into forty trades a week.
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Supertrend halved the loss of an EMA crossover system. ADX above 25 doubled it. Stacking both was the worst of all four versions tested.
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The ADX above 25 rule made my EMA crossover system worse, not better, across 16,926 real EURUSD bars. Here is what each threshold actually did.
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What the four MT4 moving average fields really control, which settings were measured profitable on EURUSD, and the Shift trap that makes a backtest look predictive when it is not.
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EMA and SMA run head to head in four matched pairs on identical EURUSD bars. The winner changes with the pair length, and the length matters far more than the method.
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