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Price Channel Expert Advisor .mq5 file for $299

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This Expert Advisor in .mq5 format has fully commented code to let you test, customize, and automate price channel trading in MetaTrader 5. Made famous by the Turtles, this system is a Price Channel breakout or also known as a Donchian Channel breakout. The Turtles had two versions they used however you can easily change the entry and exit to your timeframe. A key benefit of this system is that the price channels will catch all good trends since they will have to make a new high or low. Exits are through a trailing price channel that is less periods than the entry so the system is not in the market all the time. The Turtles used pyramiding to add to their winners to increase gains while still maintaining the same risk. As the price moves in favor of your position, you can add additional positions through pyramiding and the stop will move to be in line with the latest entry price.

A quick visual example to show approximate entry and exit areas (arrows manually added):
Price Channels EA Example
Note: The default input values are not optimized. Adjust the inputs to find the optimized combination for your risk tolerance and to maximize profitability. Trend Following systems are designed around long term probabilities. Although Trend Following systems have lower win rates, profitability comes from large trends as Trend Following cuts losses short and lets winners run. Test on a portfolio of symbols as profits from trending symbols will offset the small losses and provide profits when other symbols are not trending.

Customizable Variables

Markets

Trade on any pair and any timeframe. Place the expert advisor on a chart and it will use the currency pair and timeframe of the chart. Choppy and sideways markets will cause more whipsaws while markets that trend well will produce more profitable trades.

Entry

Using price channels or the high and low of your chosen amount of bars/candlesticks/periods, entry occurs when the price breaks the price channel. The position is added as soon as the price makes a new high and does not wait until the following bar. Long positions are entered when the price goes above the high price channel. Short positions are entered when the price goes below the low price channel. Using the example of the turtles, their system 1 entered long when the price broke above the 20 day price channel or in other words, the price went higher than it had gone in the past 20 days. System 2 went long when the price broke above the 55 day price channel. System 1 went short when the price broke below the 20 day price channel. System 2 went short when the price broke below the 55 day price channel. If you set the Max Unit variable above 1, additional entries will occur and pyramid in ATR increments specified by the ATR between Pyramids variable.

Position Sizing

This expert advisor uses Percent Volatility position sizing. Verify the tick value, minimum and maximum lot sizes, size of lot increments, etc to confirm each position will not exceed your set risk percentage. Using the stop level, if the position is stopped out, the position size is calculated to only lose the amount risked through the Risk Percent variable. The calculation looks at how many dollars are at risk, how many pips are in the distance from the entry to the stop and the value of that distance.

Stop

The stop is set using multiples of the ATR. Basing the stop on the ATR allows the stop to be placed out of the normal price range and account for volatility. If you choose 2 times the 14 day ATR, the stop on long positions would happen if the price touches or goes below the entry price minus ( 2 * ATR ). The stop on short positions would occur if the price touches or goes above the entry price plus ( 2 * ATR ). The stop is set when the position is entered. The stop accounts for gaps in price and is not set as a pending order. A position is only stopped out if the price reaches or exceeds the stop level. If you use the pyramiding option, the stop will change to be in line with the latest entry price when a new position is added.

Exit

Positions are exited when the price breaks an opposite price channel from the entry. Long positions are exited when the price touches or goes below the secondary low price channel. Short positions are exited when the price touches or goes above the secondary high price channel. Using the example of the turtles, their system 1 exited long positions when the price touched or broke the 10 day price channel or in other words, the price touched or went below the lowest low of the last 10 days. System 2 exited long positions when the price touched or went below the 20 day price channel. System 1 exited short positions when the price touched or went above the 10 day price channel. System 2 exited short positions when the price touched or went above the 20 day price channel.

Delivery

Once you complete checkout through Paypal, you will receive an automated email with the download link. The email will go to the email address that is on file with Paypal - make sure Paypal has your current and correct email address. The download link will be active for 24 hours so please download as soon as you get the link. The expert advisor comes as the MQL5 code so you will have to save it in the correct folder, read through the notes in the code, and compile it. After compiling it, start testing and finding your profitable variables. Use the installation tips page to get the file saved and compiled so you can start testing today.