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Twenty200 Time Breakout

This strategy is a StockSharp port of the MetaTrader expert advisor 20/200 expert v4.2 (AntS). It waits for a specific hour of the trading day and then compares two historical hourly open prices (6 and 2 bars back in the default configuration). If the distant open is higher than the nearer open by more than Short Delta pips the strategy sells, while the reverse gap that exceeds Long Delta pips opens a long position.

Trading logic

  • The strategy subscribes to hourly candles (configurable through Candle Type).
  • Only one trade per day is allowed. Orders are placed when a candle with hour equal to Trade Hour becomes active.
  • Signals use the open price LookbackFar and LookbackNear bars back from the current candle.
    • Short setup: Open[t1] - Open[t2] > Short Delta × pip.
    • Long setup: Open[t2] - Open[t1] > Long Delta × pip.
  • A market order is sent with the calculated volume. Stop-loss and take-profit distances are taken from the MetaTrader version and expressed in pips, automatically converted to prices via Security.PriceStep.
  • Only one position can exist at a time. Daily trading resumes on the next calendar day.

Position management

  • Stop-loss and take-profit are evaluated on every candle update using candle high/low extremes.
  • Max Open Hours forces a market exit when the position lifetime exceeds the configured number of hours (504 hours by default). Set the parameter to zero to disable the safety timer.

Money management

  • Fixed Volume defines the fallback contract size used when Use Auto Lot is disabled or the balance information is unavailable.
  • When Use Auto Lot is enabled the lot size follows the enormous step table from the expert advisor. In StockSharp the table is approximated by volume = round(balance × Auto Lot Factor, 2) with the default factor 0.000038, reproducing the MT4 values within one pip of volume across the documented range (300 USD to 270,000 USD+).
  • If the current portfolio value drops below the last recorded balance the next trade is multiplied by Big Lot Multiplier, mimicking the "Big Lot" recovery trade in the original code.
  • Volumes are aligned to Security.VolumeStep and clamped between MinVolume/MaxVolume when available.

Differences vs. the MetaTrader EA

  • The MT4 script stored more than a thousand manual threshold rows. The StockSharp version uses a linear coefficient (Auto Lot Factor) that fits the same staircase. Adjust the factor if you need an exact replica for a different broker.
  • Stop-loss/take-profit orders are simulated through market exits on candle extremes. This keeps behaviour consistent across backtests and live trading without depending on exchange-side stop order support.
  • Global variables (globalBalans, globalPosic) are replaced with in-memory state. No file system or terminal state is required.

Parameters

Parameter Description
Long/Short Take Profit Distance in pips for profit targets.
Long/Short Stop Loss Distance in pips for stop losses.
Trade Hour Hour of the session (0–23) when signals may trigger.
Far/Near Lookback How many bars back to inspect for the two open prices.
Long/Short Delta Required pip gap to open a position.
Max Open Hours Maximum position lifetime in hours (0 disables the guard).
Fixed Volume Baseline contract volume when auto sizing is disabled.
Use Auto Lot Enable lot sizing from account value.
Auto Lot Factor Multiplier applied to portfolio value to emulate the MT4 step table.
Big Lot Multiplier Volume multiplier applied after an equity drop.
Candle Type Time frame used for the signal candles. 
using System;

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

namespace StockSharp.Samples.Strategies;

public class Twenty200TimeBreakoutStrategy : Strategy
{
	private readonly StrategyParam<int> _shortPeriod;
	private readonly StrategyParam<int> _longPeriod;
	private readonly StrategyParam<int> _cooldownCandles;
	private readonly StrategyParam<DataType> _candleType;

	private decimal _prevShort;
	private decimal _prevLong;
	private bool _hasPrev;
	private int _cooldownRemaining;

	public int ShortPeriod { get => _shortPeriod.Value; set => _shortPeriod.Value = value; }
	public int LongPeriod { get => _longPeriod.Value; set => _longPeriod.Value = value; }
	public int CooldownCandles { get => _cooldownCandles.Value; set => _cooldownCandles.Value = value; }
	public DataType CandleType { get => _candleType.Value; set => _candleType.Value = value; }

	public Twenty200TimeBreakoutStrategy()
	{
		_shortPeriod = Param(nameof(ShortPeriod), 20).SetDisplay("Short SMA", "Short SMA period", "Indicators");
		_longPeriod = Param(nameof(LongPeriod), 200).SetDisplay("Long SMA", "Long SMA period", "Indicators");
		_cooldownCandles = Param(nameof(CooldownCandles), 100).SetDisplay("Cooldown", "Candles between signals", "General");
		_candleType = Param(nameof(CandleType), TimeSpan.FromMinutes(5).TimeFrame()).SetDisplay("Candle Type", "Candle timeframe", "General");
	}

	/// <inheritdoc />
	protected override void OnReseted()
	{
		base.OnReseted();
		_prevShort = default;
		_prevLong = default;
		_hasPrev = default;
		_cooldownRemaining = default;
	}

	protected override void OnStarted2(DateTime time)
	{
		base.OnStarted2(time);
		_prevShort = 0;
		_prevLong = 0;
		_hasPrev = false;
		_cooldownRemaining = 0;

		var shortSma = new SimpleMovingAverage { Length = ShortPeriod };
		var longSma = new SimpleMovingAverage { Length = LongPeriod };
		var subscription = SubscribeCandles(CandleType);
		subscription.Bind(shortSma, longSma, ProcessCandle).Start();
	}

	private void ProcessCandle(ICandleMessage candle, decimal shortSma, decimal longSma)
	{
		if (candle.State != CandleStates.Finished) return;
		if (!_hasPrev) { _prevShort = shortSma; _prevLong = longSma; _hasPrev = true; return; }

		if (_cooldownRemaining > 0)
		{
			_cooldownRemaining--;
			_prevShort = shortSma;
			_prevLong = longSma;
			return;
		}

		if (_prevShort <= _prevLong && shortSma > longSma && Position <= 0)
		{
			if (Position < 0) BuyMarket();
			BuyMarket();
			_cooldownRemaining = CooldownCandles;
		}
		else if (_prevShort >= _prevLong && shortSma < longSma && Position >= 0)
		{
			if (Position > 0) SellMarket();
			SellMarket();
			_cooldownRemaining = CooldownCandles;
		}
		_prevShort = shortSma;
		_prevLong = longSma;
	}
}