Volatility Scaled Barrier
Refuses to trade unless the market is moving far enough to make the barrier reachable.
- Contract
- Higher/Lower
- Default market
- Volatility 100 Index
- Pace
- Quick entries
How it works
- The same barrier is an easy target in a busy market and out of reach in a quiet one.
- The bot measures the average tick-to-tick move and scales it to the contract length.
- That is roughly the ground the market covers while one contract is open.
- It only trades when that comfortably exceeds the barrier, and stops altogether when it does not.
- With that settled, it buys Lower whenever price is below its moving average.
- Buys Lower only
- Movement measured against the barrier
- Stops trading in quiet stretches
- Plain direction call
- Loss cooldown
- Martingale with cap
Staking
It ships with a 2.1x martingale, sized to win back a losing run of up to 3 trades inside its stop loss, with a max stake of 5. Untick Use martingale on its card to stake the same amount on every trade.
Settings
Every number here can be changed on the card before you press Run bot.
Contract
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Duration (ticks)How many ticks each contract runs for. Movement is scaled to exactly this many. | 5 | 1–10 |
| Barrier offsetHow far from the entry spot the barrier sits. Movement is measured against this. | 0.4 | 0.1–20 |
Entry rules
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Measuring window (ticks)How many recent ticks the average movement is taken over. | 30 | 5–120 |
| Average periodHow many ticks the moving average that sets direction covers. | 20 | 3–200 |
| HeadroomHow many barrier widths of movement are needed before the bot will trade. | 1 | 0.5–10 |
| Cooldown after a loss (ticks)The bot sits out this many ticks after a losing trade before it looks for a new entry. | 2 | 0–50 |
Stake progression
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Initial stakeThe amount staked on the first trade of each sequence. | 1 | 0.35–1,000 |
| Martingale multiplier1 keeps the stake flat. Above 1 multiplies the stake after each loss. | 2.1 | 1–5 |
| Max stakeIf the progression pushes the stake past this, it resets to the initial stake. | 5 | 0.35–5,000 |
Session limits
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Take profitStops the bot once session profit reaches this. | 10 | 1–100,000 |
| Stop lossStops the bot once session loss reaches this. | 10 | 1–100,000 |
| Max losses in a rowStops the bot after this many consecutive losses. | 4 | 1–20 |
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