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618347

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Any unique integer

Identifies this EA's positions so it never touches another EA's trades. Change it only to avoid a collision on the same account.

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3

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1 or more

How far the fill may deviate from the requested price before the order is rejected. On an index this matters more than on a currency pair.

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true

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Allows at most one entry per H1 bar. The record was measured with this on; turning it off lets the EA re-enter inside the same bar and changes the strategy.

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9

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The conversion line period. The signal is this line crossing the base line, so this and the next input define the entire entry.

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28

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The base line period. 28 rather than the conventional 26 — it came out of the search that produced this build, and the record was measured at 28.

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52

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The leading span period. It is part of the indicator's calculation; the cross itself is read from the conversion and base lines.

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9

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The second Ichimoku handle the cross is measured against. Matched to the first by design — the two are read as one signal.

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28

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The base line on the second handle, matched to the first.

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52

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The leading span on the second handle, matched to the first.

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0.1

Suggested range

Broker min lot or more

Says 0.1, but the index contract has a 3.0 minimum, so every order in the published record was filled at 3 lots. Leaving it at 0.1 reproduces the record on a broker with the same minimum.

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1.2605

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A percentage of the entry price, not a pip count — on a 40,000 index this is roughly 500 points. It scales with the index level, which is why it is expressed this way.

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0.0

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Zero means there is no take-profit. Buys are closed by the stop or by the trailing stop, never by a fixed target.

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1.2605

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The same distance on the short side. The EA is symmetric — it treats a cross down exactly as it treats a cross up.

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0.0

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Zero on the short side as well. There is no target anywhere in this build.

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14

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How many bars the average range is measured over. The signal bar is compared against this average before any trade is taken.

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1.5

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The signal bar's range must be at least this multiple of the recent average. It is what turns a common indicator cross into a setup that appears about four times a month.

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1

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One position at a time. A cross that appears while a trade is open is ignored — this is what keeps the EA off any grid or averaging behaviour.

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1

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The smallest move that will pull the trailing stop along. At 1 it follows almost continuously.

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0.7563

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How far behind price the trailing stop sits, again as a percentage rather than a pip count. With no take-profit in the build, this input is what decides how much of a move the EA keeps.