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Check out the new article: Low-Frequency Quantitative Strategies in MetaTrader 5 (Part 4): A Volatility-Adjusted Momentum-Based Intraday System.
We present a timer-based MQL5 EA for Opening Range Breakout aligned to NYSE hours. It screens “Stocks in Play” via opening-range relative volume, enforces price/volume/ATR minimums, sizes positions by risk, and exits at 16:00 ET. A Sharpe-ranked optimization across 30 liquid Nasdaq stocks and a single-symbol test are provided, together with backtest settings and an Excel report for verification.
In March 2024, the Swiss Finance Institute published a research paper aimed at assessing the "validity of day trading as a long-term consistent and uncorrelated source of income for traders and investors". To answer this question, they analysed the profitability of Opening Range Breakout (ORB) strategies across "more than 7,000 US stocks traded from 2016 to 2023".
A selected portfolio of 20 stocks from that universe "achieved a total net performance of over 1,600%, with a Sharpe ratio of 2.81, and an annualized alpha of 36%. Passive exposure in the S&P 500 would have achieved a total return of 198% during the same period."
Since the tests were conducted in both academic and commercial environments, the results are somewhat impressive. But why did the study authors choose ORB among thousands of possible intraday strategies? They say they chose ORB because it is one of the most important, well-studied, and well-documented day trading strategies. Furthermore, ORB strategies are built over a clear hypothesis about the market behavior. That is, they are based on an economic rationale, instead of a mere "retrospective optimization".
This rationale is that unpriced corporate news can act as a volatility catalyst at the session open. Examples include earnings surprises, layoffs, management changes, stock splits, buybacks, and high-impact announcements (eg, FDA approvals). They would prompt institutional investors to re-evaluate their positions in a specific stock, creating an imbalance between supply and demand, potentially triggering a trend that would persist until the end of the day.
Author: Jocimar Lopes