{
  "id": 4242,
  "rank": 41,
  "name": "DarvasBoxEA",
  "aka": [
    "Nicolas Darvas Box System — Box Detection and Staircase Pyramid"
  ],
  "family": "E",
  "subtype": "E6",
  "one_liner": "Automates the Nicolas Darvas Box System with a rolling box and staircase entry mechanism.",
  "market_regime": "any",
  "timeframes": [
    "D1"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "any"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "any"
  ],
  "indicators": [],
  "entry_long": [
    "new high not exceeded for 3 consecutive sessions",
    "volume during box period below InpBoxVolMult times longer-term average",
    "box height exceeds InpMinBoxATR times ATR",
    "breakout volume exceeds InpBreakVolMult times box average"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "new low not exceeded for 3 consecutive sessions",
    "volume during box period below InpBoxVolMult times longer-term average",
    "box height exceeds InpMinBoxATR times ATR",
    "breakout volume exceeds InpBreakVolMult times box average"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "price closes below the current box bottom",
    "no new box top within InpMaxBarsBetweenBoxes bars of the last breakout"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "volume during box formation is quiet",
    "volume on breakout is expanded"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "below the box bottom by InpStopBuffer ATR units",
  "take_profit": "not specified in the source",
  "position_size": "risk per unit as percent of balance",
  "evidence_type": "source_code",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": null,
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": [
    "DAILY_LOW_COUNT: daily-or-slower timeframe on a single instrument. Expect well under 100 trades in five years, so a backtest will rarely reach statistical significance on its own."
  ],
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/4242-darvasboxea",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/articles/24111",
  "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."
}