Tidewell Slack

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0.1

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0.1 per $10,000 of balance

Fixed lot per trade, and the input that decides whether every other figure here applies to you. The published record ran 0.1 lot on a $10,000 balance; keep that ratio on a smaller account — 0.05 on $5,000, 0.01 on $1,000. The measured drawdown is $1,136.67 in money terms, so 0.1 lot on a $1,000 account would have wiped it out.

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100 pips

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Hard stop-loss in pips, sent with the order itself. Every trade ships with a fixed stop from the moment it opens — there is no averaging down and no stop removal. The one exception is mechanical: if your broker's minimum stop distance (SYMBOL_TRADE_STOPS_LEVEL) is wider than the requested stop, the EA widens it to that minimum rather than sending an order the broker would reject.

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200 pips

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Fixed take-profit in pips. The 200/100 pair is the shipped 2:1 reward-to-risk that the backtest was run on; changing it invalidates the published figures.

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1

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Cap on simultaneous positions. Shipped at 1 — one trade at a time, so exposure is bounded to a single fixed-stop position. The cap counts only this EA's own positions (same symbol and magic number).

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40 points

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0–100

Skips a new entry when the spread (in points) is wider than this. Protects the modest edge against cost spikes around the London fix.

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326258

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any unique integer

Tags this EA's own positions so it can count them. It ships working, so you never have to set it — change it only when you run more than one EA on the same account, giving each a different number.

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3 points

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3–50

Maximum price deviation accepted when the order fills, in points (3 points = 0.3 pips). This is a tight tolerance — on a live account with a fast-moving GBP/JPY it can cause rejected orders, so raise it if you see repeated requote errors. It has no effect on the published backtest.

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true

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Allows at most one entry per M15 candle. Part of the tested configuration — the published record has entries only on candle closes (minutes 00/15/30/45).

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2

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0–12

Your broker's server GMT offset during winter time. The entry window is 15:00–15:59 UTC and the EA converts it to your server clock with this offset, so set it to match your broker or the window lands on the wrong hour. On the tested Exness feed (GMT+2 winter) entries appear at 17:xx server time.

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3

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0–12

Your broker's server GMT offset during summer time (DST) — normally the winter offset plus one; confirm it against your broker rather than assuming. Note which calendar decides the switch: the EA uses the US rule (second Sunday of March to first Sunday of November) because the backtest was generated on that same rule. A broker on the European calendar changes over on different dates, so for roughly three weeks a year the entry hour is off by one.