Pipsgrowth EX03008 Grid

Pipsgrowth EX03008 is a pyramid-style grid EA that only opens fresh exposure when a four-source trend score, a multi-touch support/resistance map, and a Supertrend flip line all agree on direction. The entry engine refuses trades during flat volatility, refuses trades when the market has no higher-high/higher-low (or lower-low/lower-high) sequence, and refuses to add a second leg unless price has already moved PyramidStepPips in the trade's favor. With AddOnTrendContinuation set to true and MaxPositions raised above 1, the EA will stack up to PyramidLevels (default 5) entries in the same direction, each 50 pips beyond the previous one's entry price — turning a single momentum read into a scaled trend trade.

The four-source trend score is built inside AnalyzeTrend. A Hull Moving Average of period HullPeriod (default 21) is computed by hand on the user-selected HullTimeframe (the MQL code accepts codes 1-7 mapped to M1, M5, M15, M30, H1, H4, D1; an out-of-range code falls back to H1, and the 8 written in the source comment block is not a valid MQL timeframe and resolves to the same fallback). A Supertrend on SuperTrendTimeframe (also accepting codes 1-7, falling back to H1) using SuperTrendPeriod (default 10) and SuperTrendMultiplier (default 3.0) provides the second vote. Two more votes come from raw price action: whether the latest close is above or below the previous close, and whether the latest close is above or below the Hull line. The four booleans are summed, divided by four, and pushed into a 14-bar rolling average trendScore. The averaged score is then bucketed into trendStrength: anything above 0.7 becomes strong bull (+2), above 0.3 becomes weak bull (+1), symmetric negatives become weak/strong bear, and anything inside ±0.3 reads as flat (0).

GenerateSignals combines trendStrength with a market-structure read and a support/resistance proximity read. DetectMarketStructure walks StructureLookback (default 50) bars and marks a swing high only if SwingHighLowBars (default 5) bars on each side have a lower high; symmetric for swing lows. The function then requires that the most recent swing high be above the prior swing high AND the most recent swing low be above the prior swing low to declare a bullishStructure; the opposite pattern declares a bearishStructure. DetectSupportResistance clusters all detected swing highs/lows into at most 10 buckets; an SRTolerance (default 0.5) of pipSize*10 is the merge distance. After the merge, levels with fewer than SRMinTouches (default 2) touches are filtered out, and the rest are sorted by touch count.

A long is only armed if trendStrength is +1 or +2, superTrendDir is +1, the current close is above the Hull, the recent swing pattern is bullishStructure, AND the current price is within SRTolerance*10 of a qualified support level. The short mirror requires a bearish trend, a flipped Supertrend, a close below Hull, a bearish swing pattern, and proximity to a qualified resistance. GenerateSignals also sets an avoidTrade flag if the ATR(14)/price ratio is above 0.002 (a volatility regime that the EA's risk model treats as too noisy) or below 0.0002 (treated as a low-liquidity regime). An additional flat-regime veto fires whenever trendStrength rolls back to 0.

Position management lives in ManagePositions. If buyPositions exceeds 0 and the new bar's trendStrength has flipped bearish OR the Supertrend has flipped OR price has crossed below Hull, the EA closes all buy positions via ClosePositionsByType. The same symmetric exit fires for shorts. If the new signal matches the existing direction and buyPositions is below MaxPositions, the EA either opens a fresh trade (no position of that type) or, when AddOnTrendContinuation is on and buyPositions is below PyramidLevels, opens an additional trade if the current close is at least PyramidStepPips*10 pips above GetLastPositionPrice. The default MaxPositions is 1, which means the EA behaves as a single-entry trend follower until the user raises that cap. AllowHedging is false by default, so when the EA flips direction it first closes the opposing leg before opening the new one.

Trailing runs on every new bar when UseDynamicTrailing is on, and the trailing distance is itself regime-adaptive. ManageTrailingStops shrinks the effective trailing stop to TrailingStopPips0.5 when trendStrength is 0 and to TrailingStopPips0.7 when trendStrength is ±1; it stays at the full TrailingStopPips (default 30) when the trend is strong (±2). The function only ratchets the stop forward when the position is in profit past the dynamic trailing distance, and only when the new stop improves on the old stop by at least TrailingStepPips (default 10) pips. Every modify call goes through TryModify_EX03008, which retries up to 3 times at 200 ms on REQUOTE, TIMEOUT, PRICE_OFF, or PRICE_CHANGED and otherwise accepts TRADE_RETCODE_DONE / DONE_PARTIAL.

Hard risk sits in two layers. The first is CheckRiskManagement, which runs after the trading logic. It tracks accountHigh = max(accountHigh, balance) on each new bar, computes drawdownPercent as (accountHigh - equity)/accountHigh*100, and if drawdownPercent >= MaxDrawdownPercent (default 20) it calls CloseAllPositions and — if CloseAllOnMaxLoss is on — calls ExpertRemove() to detach the EA from the chart. A symmetric daily-loss guard checks dailyLoss/StartingBalance*100 against MaxDailyLossPercent (default 10) and unwinds everything the same way. The second layer is the hardening stack in IsSafeToTrade_EX03008: it refuses to run if not inside the configured London (7-16 GMT) or New York (12-21 GMT) window, if the equity is below InpEquityFloor, if today's realized P&L has dropped below -InpDailyLossLimit, if this week's realized has dropped below -InpWeeklyLossLimit, if the account balance has reached InpCapitalCap, if g_dailyTrades has reached InpMaxTradesPerDay, or if g_consecLosses has reached InpMaxConsecLosses. All of those thresholds are 0 in the default inputs except InpMaxTradesPerDay (50) and InpCooldownMinutes (30) — the EA arms a 30-minute cooldown after 3 consecutive losing deals. A separate cooldown is enforced when g_cooldownUntil has not yet expired.

Execution uses CTrade with a magic of 22203008 and the comment string InpTradeComment. TryBuy_EX03008 and TrySell_EX03008 floor the requested LotSize to the symbol's volume step, clamp it inside min/max lot, run an OrderCalcMargin pre-check against ACCOUNT_MARGIN_FREE (and abort with a logged message if there isn't enough), and then attempt the order up to 3 times at 200 ms intervals on the same transient retcodes. The pair is XAUUSD by default but the source explicitly marks the EA portable to FX majors and metals, since every level is computed in pips via pipSize*10 with no symbol-specific scaling. The suggested timeframe is M15 and the file is built to work from M5 through H1; above H1 the swing-detection lookback starts to under-sample structure, and below M5 the four-source trend score gets noisy on every micro-flick. Because the entry gating is strict and the pyramid step is 50 pips, expect low trade frequency with most of the year spent waiting for the next qualifying trend + S/R + Supertrend alignment.