红讯对冲交易+EA (Red News Hedge Trading + EA)

This trading strategy is based on taking advantage of high volatility in the market due to high impact red news. In this strategy, we open two trades on two different currency pairs which are known to be correlated (positively or negatively). For example, we open Long positions on both EURUSD and USDJPY a few seconds before a high impact red news in the hope of earning some pips from any imbalance in the basket. I have written an EA that makes it easier to trade this strategy. Attach the EA to one of currency pairs' chart (for example, EURUSD), and enter the hedge currency pair symbol (for example, USDJPY) in the input settings of the EA. There are four buttons to open positions,

1. Buy/Sell: the EA opens a Buy position on the attached chart, and a Sell position on the hedge currency pair.
2. Sell/Buy: the EA opens a Sell position on the attached chart, and a Buy position on the hedge currency pair.
3. Buy/Buy: the EA opens Buy positions on both currency pairs.
4. Sell/Sell: the EA opens Sell positions on both currency pairs.

and there are three buttons to close the basket manually. You can specify the net take profit (in money, not pips!) in the input settings of the EA.

Positively Correlated Symbols
For a pair of symbols that are positively correlated (such as AUDUSD and AUDCAD), use either Buy/Sell or Sell/Buy button.

Negatively Correlated Symbols
For a pair of symbols that are negatively correlated (such as EURUSD and USDJPY), use either Buy/Buy or Sell/Sell button.

Forex Correlation Table
Here is a website where you can find a Forex correlation table,

https://www.mataf.net/en/forex/tools/correlation

for example,
AUDCAD ~ EURAUD
AUDJPY ~ AUDNZD
CADJPY ~ AUDJPY
...

How I trade with this strategy:
1. Choose a high impact red news of a major currency, for example AUD.
2. Choose two other major currencies to pair with AUD such that the absolute correlation of two pairs is greater than 0.5, for example AUDUSD and AUDCAD.
3. A few minutes before the news release time, look at a currency strength meter to observe which of above two currencies (USD or CAD) is more powerful.
4. Select a trade button according to both the sign of correlation (this can be automatically done by the EA for you), and the strongest currency you identified in the previous step.
See an example here:
https://www.forexfactory.com/showthr...4#post10532124

How to load history data for hedge symbols?
In order to load history data of hedge symbols, you can follow the steps below:
1. Hit <F2> key to bring up History Center window.
2. Select the symbol (for example, EURUSD).
3. Click on <Download> button.
4. Repeat 1 to 3 for all symbols you want to load history data.

Thread Rules:
1. In this thread we discuss only the strategy and the EA presented here. I will anyone who writes any in this thread.
2. TBD.

== Update 2019-09-14 ======================
Ver. 1.84: An Currency Strength Meter (CSM) is added to the EA. Recompiled with MT4 build 1220.




Note: The CSM needs your broker to provide all major currency pairs to work.

Input settings description:

1. Select Auto Time Based Action:

- Auto Trade Disabled (default), This option disables auto time based trading.

- Buy/Buy: This option makes the EA to open BUY/BUY positions at Auto Action Time.

- Sell/Sell: This option makes the EA to open SELL/SELL positions at Auto Action Time.

- Buy/Sell: This option makes the EA to open BUY/SELL positions at Auto Action Time.

- Sell/Buy: This option makes the EA to open SELL/BUY positions at Auto Action Time.

2. Enter Auto Action Time (broker time):

- yyyy.mm.dd hh:mm:ss, for example 2015.11.19 14:29:30

- The EA opens two positions at this time according to Select Auto Time Based Action setting.

3. Auto Button Selection?

- If enabled, the EA hides irrelevant trade buttons according to the correlation value between two symbols.

4. Hedge Symbol:

- Enter hedge symbol as exactly as it appears on the market watch of your MT4 platform.

5. Net Take Profit (money):

- When net profit becomes greater than this value, the EA automatically closes both positions.

6. Net Stop Loss (money):

- When net profit becomes less than negative of this value, the EA automatically closes both positions.

7. Equalize Pips?

- If enabled, the lot size of trading two positions will be recalculated such that one pip of both symbols will be (approximately) worth equal (see Post 104).

- If disabled, the EA opens two positions with the user specified lot size.

8.1 Lot Size: 0.1 (default)

8.2 Hedge Lot Size: 0.1 (default)

9. Slippage (points): 30 (default)

10. Magic Number: 1122 (default)

- If you want to use the EA on the same symbol twice or more, you have to assign different magic numbers. Otherwise, leave it default.

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How to install this EA on your MetaTrader4 Platform
For newbies, here is a video on youtube that shows how to install any EA on MetaTrader 4 platform in 5 easy steps