Automated Signals - How to Generate Signals for Trading
As a forex trader one of the tutorials you as a trader must learn when it comes to trading the market is how to generate trade signals. A signal is just a set of rules which illustrate when to buy or when to sell a currency pair.
If you want to develop an automated system for generating trade signals you as a trader can use rules below to figure out how to specify when trading signals are generated.
Other examples of automated system trading Expert Advisor Robots & automated signals used by the FX traders can be found on MQL5 Signals and MQL5.com Expert-Advisor guides on this website.
For example, the simplest system is moving average cross over system which generates signals once 2 moving averages cross over each other.
- Buy signal - Moving Averages cross-over pointing upwards
- Sell signal - MAs crossover pointing downward
Automated Signals - Specifying Signals
A trader can generate signals from the above system known as moving average crossover technique system.
FX Trade System
To confirm the signals generated one will need to create a system and a set of trading rules for this trade strategy.
A trade system is a combination of 2 or more technical indicators & a set of written trade rules which are used to generate these trade signals with.
· How to Make a Trading Strategies
Automated Signals
From the above trade system a fx trader can generate trading signals using the trade transaction rules below:
Buy signal
- Both Moving Averages(MAs) pointing upwards
- RSI above 50
- Both Stochastics heading and moving upwards
Sell trade signal
- Both Moving Averages(MAs) pointing downwards
- RSI below 50
- Both Stochastics heading downwards
An exit signal is derived and generated when Moving averages generate an in the opposite trend signal or RSI generates an in the opposite trend trade signal: A signal that's in the opposite market direction.
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