{
  "id": 9479,
  "rank": 1011,
  "name": "Darvas Box Long-Only",
  "aka": [
    "Darvas Box Only Long",
    "Husain Huzefa Tarwala's Darvas Box Long-Only EA"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A2",
  "one_liner": "Automated trading robot based on the Darvas Box strategy, focusing on long-only trades in trending markets.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "M1",
    "M5",
    "M15",
    "H1",
    "D1"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "EURUSD",
    "GBPUSD",
    "XAUUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "any"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "ATR",
      "params": {
        "period": 14
      },
      "applied_to": "high, low, close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "current close price breaks above the box's upper edge plus ATR value × InpDarvasFlexATR"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "null"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "hit Stop Loss (SL) or Take Profit (TP)"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "volatility filter using ATR buffer"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "box's lower edge",
  "take_profit": "twice the distance from entry to SL",
  "position_size": "each trade risks exactly InpRiskPercent of your current account balance",
  "evidence_type": "source_code",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": null,
  "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/9479-darvas-box-long-only",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/148720",
  "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."
}