Author: Alan Ross

Fast scalping settings measured against their defaults on 16,926 EURUSD M5 bars: every fast setting lost, spread took the rest, and the clock was the only edge.

What the measured behaviour of ATR stops, Supertrend, ADX and news windows means for a gold chart, with EURUSD numbers stated as such and the XAUUSD run queued.

How non-repaint forex indicators actually work, the real MT4 and MT5 settings that hold their signals, and how to test any indicator for repainting yourself.

The four arrow logics inside buy/sell signal indicators, measured live and in hindsight on 16,926 EURUSD bars: win rates, repaint share, and the one arrow that paid.

Fourteen indicator rules ranked by average pips on one dataset of 16,926 EURUSD bars, against 2,000 random portfolios. Four made money, ten lost.

Supertrend, ADX, Bollinger Bands, Stochastic and moving averages measured on 16,926 EURUSD M5 bars. Which MT4 indicators earned the chart slot, with numbers.

MT5 indicators measured on 16,926 EURUSD bars: the MT5-only M10 and M20 timeframes vs M15/M30, Ichimoku with the cloud filter at +1.10 pips, ADX at 20 vs 25.