Trade cryptos with the Triangular Arbitrage EA

Triangular arbitrage involves placing offsetting transactions in three currencies to exploit a market inefficiency for a theoretical risk free trade. In the forex market, which is a very efficient market, there is substantial execution risk for retail traders. However, crypto markets are far less efficient and we can profit from it using triangular arbitrage.

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Triangular Arbitrage lot size calculation

Calculating triangular arbitrage lot size for a perfectly hedged triangular arbitrage ring is straightforward once you understand the simple math behind the prices. To get started you need three related pairs that form a ring or triangle, and simultaneous prices from those three pairs.

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Triangular Arbitrage with Bid and Ask Quotes

Triangular arbitrage opportunities can be easily identified using bid and ask quotes. In this article I describe formulas for computing triangular arbitrage using bid and ask quotes. It is worth noting that the triangular arbitrage computation using bid and ask prices is a bit more complex than simply using close prices.

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The basics of Triangular Arbitrage

Triangular arbitrage involves placing offsetting transactions in three forex currencies to exploit a market inefficiency for a theoretical risk free trade. In practice, there is substantial execution risk in employing a triangular arbitrage or tri arb strategy which may make it difficult to profit for retail traders. However, a knowledge of triangular arbitrage mechanics can enable forex traders to understand better how market prices self-regulate.

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Easy correlation and mean reversion strategy

Multi-currency mean reversion is one of the safest entry strategies available to forex traders. It has a simple definition, can be traded visually and it works very well, provided you are trading correlated currency pairs.

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Multi-currency mean reversion, also known as statistical arbitrage, is one of the safest entry strategies available to forex traders. It has a simple definition, can be traded visually by anyone and it works very well, provided you are trading correlated currency pairs. In this post, I’ll share how I use two simple indicators to find profitable mean reversion trades, at almost no risk and without going into the mathematics of it.

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Custom Indicators 103: How to implement visual alerts in custom indicators

Learn how to implement alerts on custom MT4 Indicators coded in the MQL4 language.

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Today I am going to teach you how to implement alerts in your custom indicators. To do so, we’ll further ellaborate on top of our previously coded Custom Indicator 102. The resulting code will serve as a template for a filtered signals indicator with alerts.

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Custom Indicators 102: How to implement native filters in custom indicators

Learn to code native indicator filters such as MACD and RSI into your mql4 indicators for Metatrader4 (MT4).

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Today I am going to teach you how to implement native indicator filters via iCustom() in MQL4. To do so, we’ll further ellaborate on top of our previously coded Custom Indicator 101. The resulting code will serve as a template for your future custom indicators.

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How to trade Trend Trading signals with Hedging EA

Learn how to make Hedging EA to start trades using Trend-Trading Indicator, using a custom indicator and the Custom Indicator feature of Hedging EA.

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Hedging EA is a trade manager that will turn your losing trades into winners using an imbalanced hedging strategy. It was designed to manage manual trades, but the EA can also start trades automatically using custom indicators.  Let’s see how to set up the EA to trade using Trend Trading.

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How to trade Swing Trading signals with Hedging EA

Learn how to make Hedging EA to start trades using the Swing Trading Indicator, using the Custom Indicator feature of the EA.

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Hedging EA is a trade manager that will turn your losing trades into winners using an imbalanced hedging strategy. It was designed to manage manual trades, but the EA can also start trades automatically using custom indicators such as Swing Trading.  Let’s see how to set up the EA to do so.

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Custom Indicators 101: How to code a simple custom indicator for Metatrader

Learn to code a simple breakout indicator for Metatrader4, written in MQL4.

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Today I am going to teach you how to code a simple indicator in MQL4 that plots a buy arrow when the high of the last bar is broken, and a sell arrow when the low of the last bar is broken. This indicator is the simplest of indicators that can be coded in Metatrader4.

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