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Check out the new article: Automating Trading Strategies in MQL5 (Part 52): The tCISD Model with SSMT and Quarterly Theory.
We build a tCISD program in MQL5 that pairs Quarterly Theory cycles anchored to New York time with a correlated-symbol SSMT divergence to time reversals. The article shows how to map cycles and quarters, detect the cross-symbol sweep disagreement, and derive the tCISD level whose break confirms the change in delivery. You will get a working entry logic that arms on divergence and executes on a confirmation close or a retest.
The tCISD model rests on the idea that time, not just price, decides when a market is likely to turn. Quarterly Theory divides the trading day into repeating cycles, and each cycle into four quarters, anchored to a fixed point in New York time rather than the broker's clock. The first quarter tends to accumulate; the second delivers the initial move and sets what we treat as the True Open; the third often reverses or manipulates; and the fourth distributes. Working on this grid means we stop asking only what price is doing and start asking where in the cycle it is doing it, turning a vague sense of timing into fixed windows we can test against.
Layered on that timing is the divergence that gives the model its edge. A Sequential Smart Money Technique divergence compares our traded symbol against a correlated one across the same quarter and fires when the two disagree on which extreme was taken. If our symbol sweeps its previous-quarter high but the correlated symbol fails to sweep its own, one of them is lying about the strength of that move, and that disagreement warns us the high is a liquidity grab rather than a genuine breakout, with the mirror case on the lows warning of a bullish reversal. The divergence suggests a reversal is likely, but it does not define the trigger price. That is the role of the tCISD level: the open of the last opposing candle. A break of that level marks the change in state of delivery and confirms commitment to the new direction. The swept quarter extreme becomes the stop anchor. See an illustration of the quarterly cycles below.
Author: Allan Munene Mutiiria