What Features Make an Expert Advisor Truly User-Friendly and Reliable?"

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As a developer and trader, I've worked with various Expert Advisors (EAs) and have noticed that some tools gain long-term trust from users while others don't, even if they seem powerful at first glance.

I'd love to hear from the community — what specific features, design choices, or strategies make you trust and stick with an EA? Is it the transparency of the logic, simplicity in configuration, solid risk management, or maybe something else?

Let's exchange ideas. Your feedback could help all developers and users refine what makes an EA truly reliable in real trading conditions.

 
Faith Wairimu Kariuki:

As a developer and trader, I've worked with various Expert Advisors (EAs) and have noticed that some tools gain long-term trust from users while others don't, even if they seem powerful at first glance.

I'd love to hear from the community — what specific features, design choices, or strategies make you trust and stick with an EA? Is it the transparency of the logic, simplicity in configuration, solid risk management, or maybe something else?

Let's exchange ideas. Your feedback could help all developers and users refine what makes an EA truly reliable in real trading conditions.

  1. An MFT (middle frequency trading) strategy--not scalping nor positional--more like swing,
  2. Smooth out that chart data--think Renko bricks or range bars,
  3. If your selected instrument (symbol) gaps like the Atlantic Ocean overnight, find something else to trade--MFT usually means holding runners overnight,
  4. 2 to 3 trades per week are ideal,
  5. Excluding time and/or spread filters, 2 or 3 technical indicators are quite enough for main trading logic,
  6. Always use a server-side fixed stop that stays in place the entire time that a trade is open--this is the "Oh $@#! stop" in case everything else fails,
  7. For planned exits, use a dynamic exit--this allows your runners to run, while your fixed stop kills losers quickly,
  8. Remember... If you lose 5 trades for every winner, it doesn't matter if your average winner is 7 times bigger than your average loser.
 
The only thing I can think of currently is having a simple dashboard indicating the current trend, daily/weekly/monthly trades, account growth as %.
Also a good log formatting, for Debugging live markets.
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