Trailing Stop (EMA Crossover) Strategy Diagram
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A short trend diagram whose point is the exit rather than the entry. Two exponential moving averages decide the side, but nothing in the signal path ever closes a trade: the position modify blocks only ever open, and a protection block carries the trade to its take profit or its stop loss. Its trailing switch is off, so both protection distances remain fixed.
Strategy Overview
- A fast and a slow ExponentialMovingAverage are calculated on the same candle series.
- Entries are taken only from a flat position, so an existing trade is never reversed or added to.
- Both entry blocks send their own trades into a protection block, which places the take-profit and the stop-loss as a percentage of the fill price.
- That protection block is the only way out of a trade; the diagram has no exit signal of its own.
Entry and Exit Rules
- Long entry: The fast EMA crosses above the slow EMA while the position is exactly zero. The order buys one lot and opens a long.
- Short entry: The fast EMA crosses below the slow EMA while the position is exactly zero. The order sells one lot and opens a short.
- Exit: The protection block closes the position at a take-profit of 2% or a stop-loss of 1% from the entry price. Until one of the two is hit, the opposite crossing is ignored, because entries require a flat position.
Parameters
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Fast EMA Length | 6 | Length of the fast exponential moving average. |
| Slow EMA Length | 18 | Length of the slow exponential moving average. |
| Take Profit, % | 2 | Take-profit distance, in percent of the entry price. |
| Stop Loss, % | 1 | Stop-loss distance, in percent of the entry price. |
| Volume | 1 | Order volume, in lots. |
| Candles | 00:05:00 | Candle time frame the whole diagram works on. |
Diagram Details
- The candle block feeds both indicator blocks and also supplies the price the protection block watches.
- The crossing block emits true when the fast EMA goes above the slow one and false when it goes below, so a logical NOT produces the short signal from the same output.
- One comparison against a zero constant is enough as a position guard, and both position modify blocks additionally run in open-only mode.
- The own trades of both entry blocks are wired into the protection block, which is what turns a fill into a take-profit and a stop-loss order.
Usage
Import the .json file into Designer, run it in the backtester on historical data, then adjust the parameters or the blocks themselves to fit your instrument before trading it live.