MACD Momentum Gate
Waits for the MACD histogram to cross zero with enough force, confirmed by a trend EMA.
- Contract
- Rise/Fall
- Default market
- Volatility 50 (1s) Index
- Pace
- Longer scans. It acts only on the tick a crossover happens, so most ticks pass without a trade. Lower the histogram threshold to catch more of them.
How it works
- Each tick it rebuilds the MACD histogram and keeps the last two readings.
- A crossover is a histogram that has just changed sign, so the previous reading and the current one sit on opposite sides of zero.
- The crossover is ignored unless the new histogram value clears the magnitude threshold.
- A trend EMA has the final say: it buys Rise only with price above the EMA, and Fall only below it.
- It waits until there are enough ticks for all three periods before it reads any of them.
- MACD histogram
- Zero-line crossover
- Magnitude threshold
- Trend EMA agreement
- Loss cooldown
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. | 5 | 1–10 |
Entry rules
| Setting | Default | Range |
|---|---|---|
| Fast EMA periodShort leg of the MACD. | 12 | 2–100 |
| Slow EMA periodLong leg of the MACD. Keep it above the fast period. | 26 | 5–200 |
| Signal EMA periodSmoothing applied to the MACD line to produce the histogram. | 9 | 2–100 |
| Histogram thresholdThe crossover is skipped unless the histogram is at least this far from zero. | 0.02 | 0–10 |
| Trend EMA periodThe average that has to agree with the crossover direction. | 50 | 5–200 |
| Cooldown after a loss (ticks)The bot sits out this many ticks after a losing trade before it looks for a new entry. | 3 | 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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