Here's an interesting indicator created by James Stanley of DailyFX. The oscillator measures the difference between the upper and lower bollinger bands. A moving average of the same length as the bollinger band is also plotted over the oscillator.
If the oscillator is greater than the moving average, it indicates the trend is accelerating.
If the oscillator is less than the moving average, it indicates the trend is decelerating.
This strategy will buy/sell when the candle closes above or below the specified moving average. For example, if candle closes above the moving average line, a buy order is placed. If the candle closes below the moving average, a sell order is placed. The moving average length can be set in the strategy inputs. A simple using average is used if the Simple option in the strategy inputs is set to True. If false, the calculation is based on an exponential average.
Basic automated strategy using the CCI indicator. Strategy will buy when CCI crosses above oversold (default -100) and strategy will sell when CCI crosses below overbought. If 0 is input as stop or limit, the strategy will default to stop and reverse logic.
One of the biggest requests for Strategy Trader has been for better coding documentation. The coding help document was recently revised (and greatly improved) so I thought this would be a beneficial document to upload before posting any indicators or strategies.
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This is a self-installing version of the Commitment of Traders Indicator for Strategy Trader. The indicator was created by David Rodriguez of DailyFX
Download the COTIndicator.zip file, unzip. Run the attached .exe file. Open Strategy Trader and the Strategy Trader editor. When prompted by the Editor, hit "okay" to import the "COTIndicator.fxd" file.
Once it has compiled correctly, open the "COTIndicator.fxw" file found in the default "MyWork" directory. If you installed Strategy Trader in the default location, this would be C:\Program Files\FXCM\Strategy Trader\MyWork .
All COT data is printed with the futures contract in mind. That is to say, Non Commercial and Commercial positioning on pairs such as the USDJPY and USDCHF are actually on JPYUSD and CHFUSD futures.
This strategy is based off of the Detrended Price Oscillator indicator in the Strategy Trader platform. The EA will generate a buy signal when DPO value crosses above the zero line, and the EA will generate a sell signal when DPO value crosses below the zero line. A limit order can be specified in the EA parameters for exit.
This indicator combines the overbought and oversold logic of Bollinger Bands and that of the Relative Strength Index. When the RSI line crosses below the upper bollinger band from above, it is a signal to sell. When the RSI line crosses the lower bollinger band from below, it is a signal to buy.
The economic calendar indciator will post economic news announcements directly onto the chart along with the actual figure released. The indicator will display any economic events relevant to the currency pair displayed in the chart. For example if you are viewing USD/JPY, it will display economic releases relevant to the US and Japan. The indicator pulls data from the DailyFX economic calendar.
The equity plotter will plot the profit/loss from automated strategies for particular currency pairs directly onto the currency pair chart. This becomes useful if you're running strategies on multiple currency pairs. The indicator will allow you to view profit/loss broken down by currency pair to quickly evaluate strategy performance by currency pair. The attached image gives an example of the equity plotter on the AUD/NZD and EUR/GBP pairs running the Grid Strategy. The equity plotter shows that AUD/NZD has an overall loss of $182.70 whereas EUR/GBP has an overall profit of $242.74. Helps you easily compare and identify which pairs have been most profitable.