{
  "id": 10740,
  "rank": 1334,
  "name": "QuantEdge Trend Follower",
  "aka": [],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A2",
  "one_liner": "A classic trend following Expert Advisor that buys new highs and sells new lows with a trailing stop.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "H4"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "Bitcoin",
    "Ethereum",
    "Gold"
  ],
  "sessions": [],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 200
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "ATR",
      "params": {},
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "H4 candle closes above the highest high of the previous 55 candles"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "H4 candle closes below the lowest low of the previous 55 candles"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "Trailing stop on the low/high of the last 27 closed candles, moved at each candle close, only in your favour"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "news filter",
    "max spread 3x your setting"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "1.5 x ATR",
  "take_profit": null,
  "position_size": "Lot from the real profit value reported by MT5 (some brokers publish a wrong tick value - we found a 10x error on gold), commission included, Lot rounded down; trade skipped if even the minimum lot would risk more than 3x your setting, Free margin and broker volume limit checked, One position per symbol: no martingale, no grid, no averaging down",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "HIGH PROFIT FACTOR: claimed 3.06. Treat as an in-sample or curve-fitted figure until reproduced out of sample.",
    "UNSIZED CLAIM: performance figures are published with no trade count, so the sample behind them cannot be judged.",
    "RECOVERY SIZING: position size increases after losses (martingale/grid/averaging). Equity curves look smooth until the run that does not recover - judge it on worst-case exposure, not win rate."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/10740-quantedge-trend-follower",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/202693",
  "limitations": "These are machine-extracted research records, not verified trading systems. Catalog rank measures specification detail and claimed evidence, not profitability. The catalog extraction pipeline did not independently backtest these records. Its separate selected testing ledger does not validate the wider corpus. Rules, labels and parameters can be incomplete or wrong; consult the original source and its reuse terms."
}