The VR Smart Grid Expert Advisor is a professional tool for trading grids of orders on financial instruments

VR Smart Grid is a Smart Trading Expert Advisor capable of closing many market positions in batches with small profits. Closing in small batches allows loss-making positions to be reduced quickly and efficiently. The advisor's algorithm features several well-thought-out trading strategies. The main trading strategy is based on building a network of positions and closing positions in small batches for a given profit. The advisor analyses market positions and divides their lots into batches; it calculates the minimum average price to close a part of the positions. With this approach, the average price is as close to the current market price as possible, and a small fluctuation in price leads to the closure of the calculated part of the positions.

There are 8 methods of closing market positions programmed into the trading strategy of the VR Smart Grid Expert Advisor. Depending on the chosen method, the advisor can set real or virtual TakeProfit levels. The sequence of lots can be set manually by the trader or calculated automatically using any method, including the Fibonacci calculation. The trader can manually set the distance between positions for each step or calculate it automatically.

The VR Smart Grid Expert Advisor can trade financial instruments fully automatically; all that is left for the trader to do is monitor and adjust the settings. Depending on the settings, VR Smart Grid is able to monitor and follow positions opened by another advisor or trader. The advisor does not consider how a market position was opened via the terminal on a computer or by a trader on a smartphone.

The trading strategy works by controlling and modifying market positions. Let's take a rising trend as an example. The price rises, and the EA will use a trailing stop for a buy market position. The EA will add another position if the StopLoss level is in the profitable zone. With this algorithm, the main goal of the advisor is to trade without risks. In case of a downtrend in the market, the advisor will open positions for averaging with the set lot and set step; VR Smart Grid will close the whole network of positions in small parts at the slightest pullback.

VR Smart Grid Advisor Advantages:

• Easy to set up
• Suitable for beginners and professionals
• Can accompany and control the positions of other advisors
• The advisor automatically takes into account commissions and swaps
• Can work with any financial instruments (Forex, Crypto, CFD, Futures, Metals)
• Can be optimised in the strategy tester
• Can trade on any timeframe
• Has several trading modes, trend-following, counter-trending
• Has several modes of averaging, including smart and partial averaging

General recommendations:

• Monitor the performance of the advisor and change the settings in good time.
• Test on demo accounts, in conditions as close as possible to real ones.
• Use a VPS server.
• Don't let big risks.
• Configure your MetaTrader to send Push messages to receive messages from your EA to your smartphone.
• Contact the author of the program for more information.
• Take a close look at the program settings in the blog.
• The program is accompanied by:
• Free updates.
• Free technical support.
• Sets of configuration files, contact the author.

VR Smart Grid Settings

Lot Calculation Settings

• Lot calculation type (Fixed, percent of balance) - Setting the lot calculation type for the first starting position.
• Fixed lot - The lot remains unchanged.
• Lot by percent of balance - Lot is calculated from the balance on the deposit.
• Starting lot - depending on which parameter is selected in the "Lot calculation type (Fixed, percent of balance)" setting, for "Fixed lot" you have to specify the lot value, e.g., 0.01 or 1.26, for "Lot by percent of balance" you have to specify the percentage, e.g., 0.5 or 5. By specifying 5 in the field, the Expert Advisor automatically calculates a lot based on 5% of the deposit, if the deposit is $100,000, then the lot will be calculated from 5% of $5,000, the lot value will be 21.65.
• The setting allows the selection of an automatic method for calculating lots for new positions opened against the trend.
• Starting lot (1,1,1,1) - The lot remains unchanged; the lot specified in the "Starting lot" setting is used for all positions. Example: (0.01, 0.01, 0.01, 0.01)
• Martingale lot (1,2,4,8) - The lot is calculated using the following formula = the lot of the previous position is multiplied by 2. Example: (0.01, 0.02, 0.04, 0.08).
• Fibo lot (1,1,2,3,5) - Lots are calculated according to the Fibonacci number principle, with each new lot equal to the sum of the previous two lots. Example: (0.01, 0.01, & nbsp; 0.02, 0.03, 0.05).
• Sum of maximal and starting lots (1,2,3,4) - The lot is calculated by adding the lot specified in the "Starting lot" setting and the lot of the last open position. Example: (0.01, 0.02, 0.03, 0.04).
• Sum of lots of the first and last position (3 +, 4,7,10) - The lot is calculated according to the principle of adding the lots of the first and last positions. Example: (3 +, 4,7,10,13).
• Manual lot sequence, separator (;) - Manual lot sequence, all values must be separated by (;). Example: (0.01; 0.02; 0.02; 0.06; 0.04)

• Maximal lot to buy - The setting limits the maximum lot for purchases, if the calculation of the lot management strategy results in a lot higher than that specified in the setting, the Expert Advisor will open a position not exceeding the value specified in the setting.
• Maximal lot to sell - T The setting limits the maximum lot for selling; if the calculation of the lot management strategy results in a lot higher than that specified in the setting, the Expert Advisor will open a position not exceeding the value specified in the setting.

Averaging Settings

• Position averaging method - The setting allows selecting an average price calculation strategy, at which point, some or all positions will be closed.
• All positions - fully, Real TakeProfit - The strategy calculates real TakeProfit levels for all positions. All positions have a real TakeProfit, which is fixed on the broker's server and in the trader's terminal.
• Two positions Min and Max - fully, Real TakeProfit - The strategy calculates the real TakeProfit levels for the two extreme positions. The position with the highest opening price and the lowest opening price is taken into account.
• Two positions Min and Pre-Max - fully, Real TakeProfit - The strategy calculates real TakeProfit levels for the last two positions. The last two price positions are taken into account.
• Smart choice - fully, Real TakeProfit - The strategy analyses the previous three strategies "All positions, Two positions Min and Max, Two positions Min and Pre-Max" to calculate and find the price which is closest to the current market price. The closer the average position price is to the current market price, the more likely it is to close part of the position in profit and reduce the position against the trend. The strategy constantly works with each change in position; the levels are recalculated with each change in the number of positions. Real TakeProfit levels are used for positions.
• All positions - partially, Virtual TakeProfit - The strategy works similar to the "All positions" strategy, with a few differences. 1 - A virtual TakeProfit level is used, which allows hiding your levels from the broker, 2 - The average price is calculated not for the whole lot but the part of the lot specified in the "Position closing percent" setting. If the position has a lot of 1 and 50% is specified in the setting, 0.5 lot will be taken to calculate the average price.
• Two positions Min and Max - partially, Virtual TakeProfit - The strategy works similarly to Two positions Min and Max with a few differences. Virtual TakeProfit levels are used, parts of lots are included in calculating the closing price.
• Two positions Min and Pre-Max - partially, Virtual TakeProfit - The strategy works similarly to the "Two positions Min and Pre-Max" strategy with a few differences. Virtual TakeProfit levels are used, parts of lots are included in calculating the closing price.
• Smart choice - partially, Virtual TakeProfit - Selecting the best average from the "All positions - partially, Two positions Min and Max - partially, Two positions Min and Pre-Max - partially" algorithms. In this mode, the advisor automatically analyses prices in search of optimal prices in order to quickly reduce trading positions in the market.
• Do not use averaging (It is not recommended) - The strategy excludes calculating average prices and the closing of positions at total prices or total TakeProfit.
• Position closing percent - The setting specifies the percentage to close part of the positions, only applies to the strategies "All positions - partially, Two positions Min and Max - partially, Two positions Min and Pre-Max - partially".

Trading Settings

• Types of trading orders - The setting allows selecting the type of trade and the direction of trade.
• Buy + Sell Trade - This setting enables full automatic trading of buy and sell positions.
• Buy Trade - The setting enables buy trades only, initial sell positions will not be opened, sell positions opened before the setting was enabled will remain under EA control and will be closed according to the "Smooth Sell stop" principle
• Sell Trade - The setting enables trade only for sell, initial buy positions will not be opened, buy positions opened before the setting is enabled will remain under the control of the advisor and will be closed according to the "Smooth Buy stop" principle
• Smooth Buy stop - The setting smoothly completes the strategy of buying a financial instrument. Enabling this setting does not mean that buy positions will no longer be opened. The EA will continue to work as usual until it closes all buy positions. After all buy positions are closed, new positions will not be opened. Sell trading will be conducted as usual.
• Smooth Sell stop - The setting smoothly completes the strategy of selling a financial instrument. Enabling this setting does not mean that sell positions will no longer be opened. The EA will continue to work as usual until it closes all sell positions. After all sell positions are closed, new positions will not be opened. Buy trading will be conducted as usual.
• Smooth Buy + Sell stop - The setting smoothly ends the advisor's work. Smooth completion does not mean that the EA will not open new positions. The EA will continue to trade until it closes all positions.
• Manual position management - The setting is intended for manual trading. The trader himself decides when and what position to open. In this mode, the Expert Advisor controls the positions opened by the trader, and in case of a bad entry by the trader's hands, the Expert Advisor's task is to liquidate the "Bad entry" with a minimum profit.
• Maximal number of buy positions - The setting limits the number of buy positions against the trend.
• Maximal number of sell positions - The setting limits the number of sell positions against the trend.

Order Step Settings

• 4/5 Step between positions - The setting sets the distance in points between an open position and a position that should be opened.
• 4/5 Increment of the step between positions - The setting increases the value specified in "4/5 Step between positions" depending on the number of positions by type.
• Manual step sequence, separator (;) - Manual step sequence, all values must be separated by (;). Example: (100; 100; 300; 265; 150)

Balance Settings

• 4/5 Minimal profit of closing positions in points - This setting sets the minimum profit value in points that should be obtained upon full or partial closing of positions.
• Close all positions at rofit - The setting allows closing all positions if the total floating profit has reached the specified value. The amount of profit is indicated in the currency of the deposit. Example: (100)
• Close all positions at loss - This setting allows closing all positions if the total floating loss has reached & nbsp; the specified value. The amount of the loss is indicated in the currency of the deposit. Example: (-100) Sign (- Minus) Required.
• Expert Advisor actions after closing all positions - The setting allows you to either completely stop the Expert Advisor on the trading account after "Close all positions at rofit" or "Close all positions at loss" is triggered, or to resume trading after all positions have been closed. The type of strategy is selected in the setting below.
• Full Trading stop - The setting will tell the trading program to close all positions and stop trading. The Expert Advisor stops trading regardless of whether the Auto trade button in the terminal is pressed or not.
• Closing all positions and continuing trading - The setting will tell the trading program to close all positions and resume trading.

Trailing Stop Settings

• 4/5 Trailing stop in trend - The setting enables the EA's trading strategy based on the trend. Depending on the specified value the trading algorithm will move the real StopLoss level in the wake of the price at a distance specified in the setting. When the distance between StopLoss is greater than or equal to the specified value, a new position will be opened along the trend.
• 4/5 Trailing stop against trend - The setting enables the trading strategy using Trailing Stop against the trend. The real StopLoss level will only be moved following the price for positions opened against the trend.

Trading Time Settings

• Trade when a new bar comes? - The setting allows instructions to be given to the software to open a new position, considering the "Step between positions" setting and when a new bar appears. Positions will be opened on a new bar with an offset of 5 seconds to avoid falling into an overactive period of calls to the broker's server.
• Expert's working hours - This setting instructs the program to control the specified trading time, indicated below.
• Stopping time of opening new positions - The time at which the advisor stops opening new positions. The advisor continues to work with the positions opened previously.
• Starting time of opening new positions - Time at which the advisor resumes opening new positions.

Strategy Settings

• The setting allows the selection of a trading strategy based on indicators or indicatorless trading.
• Do not use indicator signals - The trading strategy is based on the absence of positions. If there is no position or the position was closed, the EA will open a new position.
• Signal of the CCI indicator - Strategy based on the CCI indicator. An indicator with a period of 20 is programmed into the Expert Advisor, a signal to open a position comes if the value of the CCI indicator crosses the levels of 100 and -100.
• Signal of the Donchian channel indicator - Strategy based on the Donchian channel, a position is opened when the price crosses the channel border for a breakout. A buy occurs if the price crosses the upper level, a sell occurs if the price falls below the lower channel border.
• Crossing of Moving Average indicators - The strategy is based on the crossing of moving averages. Indicator periods can be specified in the settings below. For the fast moving average "Period 1: Donchian, CCI, Ma1", for the slow moving average "Period 2: Ma2". A buy position is opened when the fast moving average crosses the slow one from the bottom up. A sell position is opened when the fast moving average crosses the slow one from top to bottom.
• Your signal - The strategy allows the trader to transmit a signal from any other indicator or advisor. The signal transmission method is straightforward and is based on the global variables of the MetaTrader terminal. In order for the advisor to open a buy position, you need to pass the value 1 through the global variable named "SignalBuy"; to sell, you need to pass the value -1 through the global variable named "SignalSell". Any other value passed through globals is ignored.
• GlobalVariableSet ("SignalBuy", 1); - Sending a buy signal.
• GlobalVariableSet ("SignalSell", - 1); - Sending a sell signal.
• Your signal taking into account the symbol - The strategy allows a trader to transmit a signal from any other indicator or advisor. The signal transmission method is straightforward and is based on the global variables of the MetaTrader terminal. In order for the advisor to open a buy position, you need to pass the value 1 through the global variable named Symbol () + "-SignalBuy"; to sell, you need to pass the value -1 through the global variable named Symbol () + "-SignalSell". Any other value passed through global variables is ignored.
• GlobalVariableSet (Symbol () + "-SignalBuy", 1); - Sending a buy signal.
• GlobalVariableSet (Symbol () + "-SignalSell", - 1); - Sending a sell signal.
• Apply the signal to all positions? - The setting instructs the EA to apply signals only to the first positions, when there are no positions at all in the terminal, or to open all positions taking into account the signal.
• Period 1: Donchian, CCI, Ma1 - Period of the first indicator
• Period 2: Ma2 - Period of the second indicator

Other Settings

• Show panel and graphical objects? - The setting displays information on the graph. Panel is not displayed in tester mode
• Messages for smartphone - Allow sending notifications to smartphone
• Color of buy positions - Color of graphic items to buy
• Color of sell positions - Color of graphic items for sale
• Comment on the position - Setting comments to positions, if the field is empty, then the comment indicates the name of the program and the "Serial number (Magic Number)".
• MagicNumber - Setting the serial number, by this number the advisor distinguishes its positions from other people's positions.
• 4/5 Slippage - The setting sets the amount of slippage in points.