Strategies

Trend-following EAs hold positions in the dominant market direction with stop-losses and trailing exits, accepting many small losses for fewer big wins.

High-frequency short-hold EA strategy targeting 2–8 pip gains per trade on tight-spread pairs. Requires low latency, Raw/ECN accounts, and VPS co-location near broker servers.

Grid EAs open orders at regular price intervals, building a mesh of buy and sell entries that profits from oscillation. Capital-intensive; requires careful drawdown management to survive trending regimes.

Martingale EAs double position size after each loss, betting on eventual reversal. High win-rate cosmetics mask catastrophic ruin risk. Only viable with hard capital limits and full awareness of drawdown maths.

Arbitrage EAs exploit temporary price discrepancies between related instruments. Latency-sensitive and broker-dependent. Retail variants use statistical correlation rather than pure cross-exchange arbitrage.

News EAs trade the volatility spike surrounding scheduled economic releases using a straddle before the event, or a blackout filter to avoid erratic post-release price action. High variance; spread-sensitive.

Mean-reversion EAs enter counter-trend after statistically significant price deviations, targeting return to the historical mean. Works best on range-bound pairs with low structural trend momentum.

Breakout EAs enter when price exits a defined consolidation range or key level with momentum confirmation. Higher entry quality than pure trend signals, but vulnerable to false breakouts in low-volatility markets.