Specnaz Advisor
The habit of complicating the trading process, as well as being skeptical of simple solutions, are among the most destructive qualities of a trader that prevent you from making money in the financial markets.
At first glance, it may seem that the principles of price movement defy any logical explanation, but as practice shows, this statement is erroneous.
Very often, the simplest approaches, in the effectiveness of which almost no one believes, actually turn out to work.
An example was the strategy of Alexander Kononov, which is now better known by the name “Special Forces”. Actually, in this article we will look at the advisor for the famous “Special Forces” strategy.
Advisor Specnaz is an indicator-free trading expert based on the famous “Spetsnaz” strategy.
It is worth noting that a number of auxiliary filters were introduced into the Specnaz expert, which made it possible to use the robot on all currency pairs, and not as required strategy by default, purely on Euro/dollar.
The Expert Advisor operates in a manner similar to a typical grid robot, which demonstrates high efficiency in both narrow and wide sideways trends (flat), while long, non-rebounding trend movements are extremely undesirable for him.
Installing the Specnaz Advisor
Until recently, the "Spetsnaz" strategy was the preserve of only a select few traders who paid hefty sums for seminars taught by its creators.
However, the world is not without good people, so not only was the strategy actively distributed on various forums, but developers were also found who automated it and made it available completely free in the official MT4 library.
Thus, the Specnaz advisor can be installed in two ways, namely, using the standard scheme through the data directory, or through the built-in library.
To install an advisor through the library, launch your MT4 trading terminal and go to the panel called "Terminal", where you can find up-to-date balance information.
Then, the next step is to go to the "Library" tab and perform a simple sort so that only advisors appear in the list.
In the sorted list, find the advisor called Specnaz and load it using the additional menu, as shown in the image below:
If installing the advisor through the library is not possible, you can use the standard installation method via the data directory. To do this, scroll to the end of the article and download the advisor file.
Then drop the file into the appropriate folder in the data directory, namely the folder called Expert.
For Specnaz to appear in the list of advisors, regardless of the installation method, you must restart the trading terminal or update it in the navigator panel.
After updating, the advisor is ready for use. To start trading, drag the robot's name onto any time frame of the EUR/USD currency pair.
Specnaz Expert Advisor Strategy Settings
The Specnaz advisor is based on a simple indicator-free strategy with elements of order locking.
So, at 8:00 Moscow time, the robot opens two opposing positions simultaneously, one for a buy and one for a sell, with a profit of 20 points each.
If one of the orders closes in profit, the advisor opens a new order in the profit direction, thus accumulating the entire volume of movement, while the second order hovers in the red.
The next day at 8:00 a.m., two counter orders of the same volume are reopened, which allows the loss from the previous negative transaction to be averaged out and a profit to be made from the second position.
So, in the Lots variable, you can set the position volume, and in the Take Profit variable, you can specify the profit amount (by default for five-digit quotes) for two opposite orders.
The flat variable allows you to set a trend wave limit in points so that the advisor does not drain the deposit during strong, prolonged trends.
Testing
As an experiment, we, as usual, based on the developer's recommendations, optimized and backtested the advisor.
Testing and optimization took place during the first half of 2018 on the EUR/USD currency pair. The test results are below:
In conclusion, it is worth noting that sometimes the simplest trading strategies have no less profit potential than complex algorithms.
However, it is important to be clear that Specnaz does not use a stop order, but averages its losses over a huge number of orders, which can lead to a complete loss draining the deposit.
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