{
  "id": 2745,
  "rank": 1097,
  "name": "Trend_Catcher",
  "aka": [
    "Trend_Catcher expert for MetaTrader 5"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A6",
  "one_liner": "Trend identification based on three moving averages and Parabolic SAR, with martingale and custom stop loss and take profit settings.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "M30",
    "H1",
    "H4",
    "D1"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "EURUSD",
    "USDJPY",
    "AUDUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "null"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 200
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 25
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "Parabolic SAR",
      "params": {},
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bollinger Bands",
      "params": {},
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "current price > Parabolic SAR point",
    "previous candle's close < previous Parabolic SAR point",
    "fast MA > slow MA",
    "current price > second MA with another period"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "current price < Parabolic SAR point",
    "previous candle's close > previous Parabolic SAR point",
    "fast MA < slow MA",
    "current price < second MA with another period"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "opposite signal"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "null"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "Auto_SL = true: distance between order open price and Parabolic SAR point * SL_koef; Auto_SL = false: fixed SL parameter in points",
  "take_profit": "Auto_TP = true: Stop Loss * TP_koef; Auto_TP = false: fixed TP parameter in points",
  "position_size": "lot calculated as % of deposit based on Risk parameter and Stop Loss; if Martin = true, risk of next trade multiplied by Koef after loss",
  "evidence_type": "source_code",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "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/2745-trend-catcher",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/code/17386",
  "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."
}