The Apple EA Inputs Description – Trading Systems – 26 September 2024

Here is a complete description of the input settings for the trading robot, “The Apple,” organized by category.

• These are the symbols that the robot will trade. You can customize the list based on your preference.

**Suffix**:   

•   This setting allows you to specify any suffix added by your broker to the symbol names, such as “.m” or “.pro”.

**Prefix**:   

•   This allows for adding a prefix to symbol names if your broker uses them (e.g., “fx_” for “fx_GBPAUD”).

– **Magic Number**: 31125 

• This is a unique identifier for the trades opened by “The Apple” bot, ensuring no interference with trades from other robots.

•  Commentary that will appear in the trade history to identify the bot responsible for the trades.

•   Specifies whether the robot can open both buy and sell trades or restrict it to a single direction.

•   Limits the robot to opening only one trade per symbol at a time, reducing exposure to the market.

•   Allows the robot to trade on Fridays. This can be toggled off to avoid weekend gaps.

•   Set to close open positions before the weekend. A value of `-1` means this feature is disabled.

•   Limits the total number of open positions at a time across all pairs.

•   Maximum allowable spread (in points) for the robot to open a trade, preventing trades during volatile conditions.

•   Enables an AI filter based on bull/bear market conditions.

•   Sets the deviation for the bear market filter intensity.

•   Sets the intensity for the bull market filter intensity.

•   The timeframe used by the AI filter to determine market trends.

•   The method used to determine lot size. In this case, it is based on the account balance.

•   The percentage of the balance used for calculating risk.

•   If fixed lot sizing is enabled, the robot will use a lot size of 0.5 per trade.

•   Lot size determined by currency amount.

•   The smallest lot size the robot will use when trading.

•   The largest lot size the robot can trade.

•   Take-profit value is multiplied by this ratio.

•   Stop-loss value is multiplied by this ratio.

•   Whether the martingale system is enabled or not.

•   Defines how take-profit is calculated in the martingale system (average of positions).

•   Method used to determine when to open additional trades for martingale (based on ATR).

•   The period for the ATR (Average True Range) used in the martingale strategy.

•   ATR multiplier used to calculate the pip distance between martingale entries.

•   The timeframe for ATR calculations.

•   Martingale will only execute on new candle bars.

•   Martingale will only continue if a signal is detected.

•   The timeframe used for the RSI-based martingale signal.

•   Period used for RSI calculations in the martingale system.

•   The low threshold for RSI to trigger trades.

•   The high threshold for RSI to trigger trades.

•   Defines whether to reverse the martingale strategy based on RSI signals.

•   The profit type used for martingale closures (based on percentage of balance or USD).

•   The amount of profit in USD that triggers a martingale closure.

•   Percentage of balance that triggers a martingale closure.

•   Whether to close open trades when maximum drawdown is reached.

•   The initial account balance used for drawdown calculations.

•   The maximum allowable drawdown before closing positions (if enabled).

•   The maximum daily loss allowed, expressed in account currency.

•   Enables a random pip value added to take-profit and stop-loss orders for Prop Firm trading.