{
  "id": 7602,
  "rank": 100,
  "name": "Moving Average Pullback Trend Follower MT4",
  "aka": [
    "Moving Average Pullback Trend Follower"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A1",
  "one_liner": "Trend-following EA that enters on pullbacks to a moving average, using fully closed bars and trailing stops.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "H4"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "USDJPY",
    "EURJPY"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "Skip entries on bars that close at NY 4:00 and 20:00"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "Moving Average",
      "params": {
        "period": 200
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "MA on the most recently closed bar is rising over a configurable lookback period",
    "That closed bar's body stays above the MA and its low touched the MA",
    "Entry at market immediately after the bar closes"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "Mirror image of the long entry conditions"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "Trailing stop. Initial stop loss (StopPips) is set on every entry. Once floating profit reaches TriggerPips, the stop trails the price at a distance of TrailPips and only moves in the favorable direction. There is no fixed take-profit."
  ],
  "filters": [
    "Session filter skips entries on bars that close at NY 4:00 and 20:00",
    "Gap guard (MaxGapPips) avoids unfavorable entries after large price gaps"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "Initial stop loss (StopPips) is set on every entry",
  "take_profit": "No fixed take-profit, trailing stop only",
  "position_size": "Lot size is automatically normalized to your broker's min/max lot and lot step",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "HIGH WIN RATE: claimed 87.9%. Attainable, but nearly always by banking many small wins against rare large losses - check the payoff ratio and the worst single trade before trusting it.",
    "HIGH PROFIT FACTOR: claimed 4.8. Treat as an in-sample or curve-fitted figure until reproduced out of sample.",
    "THIN SAMPLE: 33 trades - below the ~100 needed before a win rate or profit factor carries much information."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": [
    "MT4_ONLY: the captured source is MQL4 / written for MetaTrader 4. It needs porting (order functions, indicator handles) before it runs on MT5."
  ],
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/7602-moving-average-pullback-trend-follower-mt4",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195268",
  "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."
}