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The trend is our friend. 

But... what is the trend? How to track the trend? There will be dozens of methods. 

Today I'll make a brief introduction of my Algo Trader System, which could well define and track the trend on 60 min and 240 min chart.

It was created and backtested in Esignal. 

I just translated it into MT4 for several days.

The logic of Algo Trader includes price action, pivot and my own trend following method.

It could work on 9 pairs (H1 and H4 timeframe):

EURUSD, DXY, GBPUSD, USDJPY, AUDUSD, NZDUSD, USDCAD, Spot Gold, WTI Oil

The basic logic are the same, but the calculation method and filters are different for every pair and every timeframe.

Chart 1: Algo Trader System (Click on the image to enlarge)

Algo Trader System

1. When short term trend, medium term trend and/or long term trend all turn green, and the price also closed above the upper bands, this should be a perfect buy opportunity, exit on price close below lower bands.

(The stop loss level could also be 5 pips below recent swing low)

Chart 2: Perfect buy trade setup (Click on the image to enlarge)

Perfect buy trade setup

2. When short term trend, medium term trend and/or long term trend all turn magenta, and the price also closed below the lower bands, this should be a perfect sell opportunity, exit when price close above upper bands.

(The stop loss level could also be 5 pips above recent swing high)

Chart 3: Perfect sell trade setup (Click on the image to enlarge)

Perfect sell trade setup

3. Timeframe:

H4--Medium term trade

H1--Intraday short term trade

Chart 4: Intraday short term trade setup (Click on the image to enlarge)

Intraday short term trade setup

4. Combined H1 and H4 timeframe, we could well read the market.

Chart 5: Recent EURUSD Moving (Click on the image to enlarge)

Recent EURUSD Moving

5. Combined with Elliottwave theory to maximize profit and avoid potential immature entries

For a long time, I traded on manually Elliottwave analysis and look for top and bottom signs at potential turning points.

After Algo Trader system was created, I find the whole work becomes very easy.

To my experience, try to trade wave 3 and wave 5 should be more profitable.

Now let's see recently USDJPY uptrend from 104.63 to 111.39.

After all the candles are flagged on the chart, we find it is a textbook 5 wave rally.

However, it is extremely hard to identify it during the trend developing.

Combined with Algo Trader system, we could pick most of the movement in wave 3 and wave 5.

Also could avoid the sell trade of a potential double top formation in wave 5.

Chart 6: track the movement of wave 3 (Click on the image to enlarge)

track the movement of wave 3

Chart 7: identify wave 5 (Click on the image to enlarge)

identify wave 5

 

 

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