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Stoch Sell Strategy

Overview

This strategy reproduces the behaviour of the original stochSell MetaTrader expert. It listens to a single candle stream and waits for a triple stochastic confirmation combined with a volatility filter before sending an initial market sell order. Immediately after the short entry it deploys a ladder of pending sell stops to scale into the move if price keeps falling.

Trading Logic

  • Volatility filter – an Average True Range (ATR) with configurable length must stay below the specified threshold.
  • Slow stochastic confirmation – the longest stochastic oscillator must stay below the long-term oversold level before any trades are allowed.
  • Cross confirmation – both the medium and the fast stochastic oscillators must cross down through the oversold trigger during the same finished candle.
  • Position check – new entries are placed only when the strategy has no active orders and the position is flat.

Once all conditions are met the strategy sends a market sell order using the configured volume and immediately schedules a set of sell stop orders according to the grid settings. Pending orders are optional and can be disabled by setting the grid order count to zero.

Exit Rules

  • Profit target – when the short basket accumulates the desired profit in pips (calculated from the volume-weighted entry price), the strategy buys back the entire position and removes every remaining pending order.
  • Manual stop – grid orders respect a configurable lifetime. When a stop order expires without being filled it is cancelled automatically.
  • Full close – any buy trade that returns the position to zero clears the internal entry statistics and cancels the pending grid.

Grid Management

  • Pending orders are placed below the reference price using the start offset and step expressed in pips.
  • Each pending order uses the grid volume multiplier, allowing the basket size to differ from the initial market entry.
  • Expiration (in minutes) is applied to every pending order; zero disables the timeout.

Parameters

Name Description
CandleType Primary timeframe for every indicator and trading decision.
AtrPeriod / AtrThreshold Volatility filter controlling when the strategy is allowed to trade.
FastKPeriod, FastDPeriod, FastSlowing Configuration of the fast stochastic oscillator.
MediumKPeriod, MediumDPeriod, MediumSlowing Configuration of the medium stochastic oscillator.
SlowKPeriod, SlowDPeriod, SlowSlowing Configuration of the slow stochastic oscillator.
OversoldLevel Level that the fast and medium stochastic values must cross downward.
LongTermOversoldLevel Upper bound for the slow stochastic during entry.
ProfitTargetPips Net profit in pips required to close the short basket.
GridOrdersCount Number of pending sell stops created after the entry.
GridStartOffsetPips Offset in pips between the entry price and the first pending order.
GridStepPips Distance in pips between consecutive pending orders.
GridVolume Volume applied to each pending order.
GridExpirationMinutes Lifetime of pending orders in minutes.
MarketVolume Volume used for the initial market sell.

Notes

  • Indicator values are processed through the high-level BindEx API and only finished candles trigger trading decisions.
  • The position tracking logic keeps a volume-weighted entry price in order to translate the raw profit target into pips.
  • To disable scaling simply set the grid order count to zero; the strategy will still rely on the stochastic confirmation and ATR filter for single-shot trades.
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;

using Ecng.Common;

using StockSharp.Algo.Indicators;
using StockSharp.Algo.Strategies;
using StockSharp.BusinessEntities;
using StockSharp.Messages;

namespace StockSharp.Samples.Strategies;

public class StochSellStrategy : Strategy
{
	private readonly StrategyParam<int> _fastPeriod;
	private readonly StrategyParam<int> _slowPeriod;
	private readonly StrategyParam<int> _stopLossPoints;
	private readonly StrategyParam<int> _takeProfitPoints;

	private ExponentialMovingAverage _fast;
	private ExponentialMovingAverage _slow;

	private decimal _prevFast;
	private decimal _prevSlow;
	private decimal _entryPrice;
	private int _cooldown;

	public int FastPeriod { get => _fastPeriod.Value; set => _fastPeriod.Value = value; }
	public int SlowPeriod { get => _slowPeriod.Value; set => _slowPeriod.Value = value; }
	public int StopLossPoints { get => _stopLossPoints.Value; set => _stopLossPoints.Value = value; }
	public int TakeProfitPoints { get => _takeProfitPoints.Value; set => _takeProfitPoints.Value = value; }

	public StochSellStrategy()
	{
		_fastPeriod = Param(nameof(FastPeriod), 14).SetGreaterThanZero().SetDisplay("Fast Period", "Fast EMA period", "Indicator");
		_slowPeriod = Param(nameof(SlowPeriod), 50).SetGreaterThanZero().SetDisplay("Slow Period", "Slow EMA period", "Indicator");
		_stopLossPoints = Param(nameof(StopLossPoints), 200).SetNotNegative().SetDisplay("Stop Loss", "Stop-loss in price steps", "Risk");
		_takeProfitPoints = Param(nameof(TakeProfitPoints), 400).SetNotNegative().SetDisplay("Take Profit", "Take-profit in price steps", "Risk");
	}

	public override IEnumerable<(Security sec, DataType dt)> GetWorkingSecurities()
	{
		yield return (Security, TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5).TimeFrame());
	}

	protected override void OnReseted()
	{
		base.OnReseted();
		_fast = null; _slow = null;
		_prevFast = 0; _prevSlow = 0; _entryPrice = 0; _cooldown = 0;
	}

	protected override void OnStarted2(DateTime time)
	{
		base.OnStarted2(time);
		_fast = new ExponentialMovingAverage { Length = FastPeriod };
		_slow = new ExponentialMovingAverage { Length = SlowPeriod };
		var subscription = SubscribeCandles(TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5).TimeFrame());
		subscription.Bind(_fast, _slow, ProcessCandle);
		subscription.Start();
	}

	private void ProcessCandle(ICandleMessage candle, decimal fastValue, decimal slowValue)
	{
		if (candle.State != CandleStates.Finished) return;
		if (!_fast.IsFormed || !_slow.IsFormed) { _prevFast = fastValue; _prevSlow = slowValue; return; }
		if (_cooldown > 0) { _cooldown--; _prevFast = fastValue; _prevSlow = slowValue; return; }

		var close = candle.ClosePrice;
		var step = Security?.PriceStep ?? 1m;

		if (Position > 0 && _entryPrice > 0)
		{
			if (StopLossPoints > 0 && close <= _entryPrice - StopLossPoints * step) { SellMarket(); _entryPrice = 0; _cooldown = 100; _prevFast = fastValue; _prevSlow = slowValue; return; }
			if (TakeProfitPoints > 0 && close >= _entryPrice + TakeProfitPoints * step) { SellMarket(); _entryPrice = 0; _cooldown = 100; _prevFast = fastValue; _prevSlow = slowValue; return; }
		}
		else if (Position < 0 && _entryPrice > 0)
		{
			if (StopLossPoints > 0 && close >= _entryPrice + StopLossPoints * step) { BuyMarket(); _entryPrice = 0; _cooldown = 100; _prevFast = fastValue; _prevSlow = slowValue; return; }
			if (TakeProfitPoints > 0 && close <= _entryPrice - TakeProfitPoints * step) { BuyMarket(); _entryPrice = 0; _cooldown = 100; _prevFast = fastValue; _prevSlow = slowValue; return; }
		}

		if (_prevFast <= _prevSlow && fastValue > slowValue && Position <= 0)
		{ if (Position < 0) BuyMarket(); BuyMarket(); _entryPrice = close; _cooldown = 100; }
		else if (_prevFast >= _prevSlow && fastValue < slowValue && Position >= 0)
		{ if (Position > 0) SellMarket(); SellMarket(); _entryPrice = close; _cooldown = 100; }

		_prevFast = fastValue; _prevSlow = slowValue;
	}
}