Pipsgrowth EX18076 TrendFollow

Pipsgrowth EX18076 Hull Advanced is a dual-Hull moving-average trend follower for MT5 built around an inline computation of two Hull MAs — fast (20 bars) and slow (50 bars) — and the agreement between their slopes. The EA is engineered for the H4 and M15 timeframes, with a default pair of XAUUSD, and falls into the medium-risk category. The setup expects a low-spread broker, a minimum $100 account, and a market where ATR-based stops are wide enough to absorb gold's overnight ranges.

The Hull construction is done entirely with iMA LWMA primitives — there is no iCustom or external indicator dependency. Each Hull is computed as the difference of two linearly weighted moving averages, then smoothed with a square-root-of-period weighted average: raw = 2 × LWMA(period/2) − LWMA(period), and the smoothed value is the result of a small weighted average of length round(sqrt(period)) applied to the raw series. For the default 20/50 settings, that yields fast Hull built from LWMAs of 10 and 20 with a 4-bar smoother, and slow Hull built from LWMAs of 25 and 50 with a 7-bar smoother. The trend direction is the comparison of the Hull value at the last closed bar against the prior bar — positive slope points long, negative slope points short, flat produces no signal.

By default, both Hulls must agree before a position is opened. This is the InpRequireBoth=true input, and it is the most important signal gate: a single-Hull flip is filtered out. If the user sets InpRequireBoth=false, the system falls back to a majority vote between the two Hull directions. Each signal also carries a confidence value in the 0–100 range derived from the magnitude of the fast-Hull slope normalized by the current ATR(14); values are clamped to 100, and the confidence is reported in logs even though the strategy itself is binary in the shipped code.

The regime classifier runs on every new bar and tags the market into one of seven states. ADX(14) at or above 25 combined with an ATR percentile at or above 50% over the last 100 bars places the market in STRONG_TREND. ADX(20–25) is WEAK_TREND. A Bollinger band width that has expanded by more than 10% from the prior bar combined with an ATR percentile of 60% or more is EXPAND; expansion without the percentile gate is BREAKOUT. A width compression of 5% or more is COMPRESS, and the fallback state is RANGE. The NoTradeGates function blocks any new entries when the regime classifier cannot be computed (treated as CHOPPY) or when the regime is explicitly CHOPPY, so a high-conviction signal in a flat market is still rejected.

Confirmations are stacked on top of the signal. The HTF confirmation reads an EMA(50) on the H4 chart — buy entries must occur with price above the H4 EMA, sell entries below it. The session gate restricts entries to server hours 08:00–20:00, with explicit Friday 22:00 and full weekend blocks for liquidity reasons. The spread filter uses a rolling 50-tick average and rejects entries when the current spread exceeds max(30 points, 2× average). The candle confirmation requires that the last closed bar's direction match the signal, and the risk-to-reward gate requires the planned TP distance to be at least 1.5× the SL distance before any order is sent.

Sizing is risk-based at 0.5% of effective capital per trade, with effective capital computed as the current equity minus the day's realized P&L on this magic number. The lot calculation goes through OrderCalcMargin as a pre-flight check, and the lot is reduced automatically if the required margin would exceed 95% of free margin. The capital cap input defaults to zero (off) and acts as a soft ceiling on the capital considered for sizing when turned on. A hard floor of $50 equity shuts off entries entirely. The MaxOpenTrades input caps the EA at three concurrent positions; the symbol exposure counter also enforces a three-position cap on the chart symbol.

Position management runs on every tick, not just on new bars. At a 1R profit, half of the position is closed and the stop is moved to break-even. After the position is in profit by more than 0.5R, an ATR(14) trail at 2.5× ATR activates, ratcheting the stop forward only when a tighter stop is available. A 1-hour cooldown is triggered after three consecutive losses, blocking any new entries for the following hour. The time-based exit is 80 bars on the entry timeframe, which translates to roughly 40 hours on M30, 20 hours on M15, or 13.3 days on H4. Two more exit paths exist: the EA will close a position immediately if the dual-Hull signal flips to the opposite direction, and it will also close on a regime change to RANGE, COMPRESS, or CHOPPY.

The order layer itself is hardened. Every position action goes through a 3-attempt retry helper (TryClose_EX18076, TryClosePartial_EX18076, TryModify_EX18076) that sleeps 200ms on requotes, timeouts, price-off, or price-changed events for close operations and 100ms for modify operations. SetDeviationInPoints is set to the InpSlippagePts input (20 points default). The filling mode is auto-detected from SYMBOL_FILLING_MODE — FOK if supported, otherwise IOC, otherwise RETURN. The order comment is hardcoded to "Psgrowth.com Expert_18076", and trades are tagged with the magic number 22218076.

In dry-run mode, which is the default (InpDryRun=true), no live orders are sent; the EA prints each would-be entry to the journal and updates its internal state so the strategy logic can be validated visually before going live. The OnTester formula in the Strategy Tester is (net × profit factor) / (1 + balance drawdown), and a minimum of 30 trades is required before a result is returned — combinations that survive this filter tend to be the ones that produce stable equity curves in walk-forward. The OnInit function returns INIT_FAILED if any of the eight indicator handles cannot be created — Hull LWMA pairs for fast and slow, ADX(14), ATR(14), Bollinger Bands(20, 2.0), and the H4 EMA(50) — so the EA will not run on a chart where the data history is too short for the longest calculation. The OnDeinit function releases all eight handles cleanly.