What Order Block Zones is Order Block Zones is an indicator that marks one candle pattern on your chart and draws it as a supply or demand zone. The pattern is the last candle of the opposite colour before a move that closes beyond that candle by at least a set multiple of the ATR...
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26 September 2026, 12:15
This is the fifth entry in the incubation diary for my gold breakout EA. The EA places a buy stop at the highest high and a sell stop at the lowest low of the last N closed M15 bars, only during 10:00 to 13:59 UTC, with an initial stop of 0.5 ATR and a trailing exit...
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24 September 2026, 01:29 #breakout, xauusd
What Execution Caliper is Execution Caliper is not a trading robot. It is a meter. It sits on one chart and measures the execution cost your account charges on that symbol, then divides that cost by the stop distance of the EA you are thinking of running...
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23 September 2026, 04:13
When I published the launch post for Execution Caliper on 21 September 2026, its central example was one EA run on three accounts, showing profit factors of 1.08, 1.79 and 2.39...
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21 September 2026, 15:15
Today I published a free utility on the Market called Execution Caliper . This post is the record of what it measures, what it deliberately refuses to do, and how it ended up with a different name and a different job from the one I started with...
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21 September 2026, 07:51 #metatrader 5
This is the fourth entry in a public incubation diary for a gold expert advisor that is not for sale and may never be, depending on what the verification says...
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10 September 2026, 01:46 #gold
This is the third entry in a public incubation diary for a gold Expert Advisor I am building toward a release around December 2026 or January 2027. The rule I set for myself is that everything goes in the diary — the measurements that came out the way I expected, and the ones that did not...
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27 August 2026, 15:00 #gold
This is the second entry in a public incubation log for a gold breakout EA I am not selling yet. The first entry audited five trading days of live forward testing and found that only one of them had produced a valid measurement...
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20 August 2026, 15:36 #gold
Over the next several months I am going to publish the full incubation record of one Expert Advisor — a session breakout system on gold, M15 — from validation through live forward testing. Not the marketing version. The actual record, including the parts where nothing worked...
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14 August 2026, 23:16 #gold
Every few weeks someone asks me a version of the same question: "Your indicator removed a zone from my chart, but price never went through it. Is that a bug?" It is a fair question, and for a long time my answer was too short...
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3 August 2026, 14:18 #metatrader 5, price action