Lopez Trend 7.0

Metatrader Indicator (MT4/MT5)

  • Overview

    The Lopez Trend indicator tracks the market trend with an unmatched reliability, ignoring sudden fluctuations and market noise. It has been designed to trend-trade intraday charts and small timeframes. Its winning ratio is around 85%.

    • Amazingly easy to trade
    • Follow the trend, hassle free
    • Enjoy noise-free trading at all times
    • Avoid being whipsawed in intraday charts
    • The indicator analyzes its own quality and performance
    • It includes a multi-symbol and multi-timeframe scanner
    • It implements a multi-timeframe dashboard

    The indicator is suited to trade low timeframes, because it ignores sudden price spikes or corrections, by reducing market noise around a mean price.

    • The indicator needs no optimization at all
    • It implements a multi-timeframe dashboard
    • The indicator is non-repainting and non-backpainting
    • It implements email/sound/push alerts

    Trading Guidelines

    • Suitable instruments: Forex, Commodities, Indices, Stocks and Crypto
    • Suitable timeframes: Monthly, Weekly, Daily, 12 Hours, 8 Hours, 4 Hours, 2 Hours, 1 Hour, 30 minutes and 15 minutes

    This indicator implements a trend-following orientation suitable for small timeframes that can permeate into very long trends in higher timeframes, amplifying your winnings.

    Anatomy of the indicator

    The Lopez Trend indicator displays a colored line surrounded by a price band. The colored line is the mean price of the security, and the price band represents the overbought/oversold levels. If the mean price is blue you should be looking for long trades when the market is not overbought, and if the mean price is red, you should be looking for short trades when the market is not oversold.

    A trend change in the indicator is not a signal to trade right away and close opposite trades! The bands should be used for timing.

    Example Strategy

    There is a myriad of strategies which can be developed using the Lopez Trend indicator, being the simplest of them a reversal system which trades only when the close price hits the mean price or the bands, thus avoiding trading when a sudden spike or correction takes place and the market is panicking.

    The rules can be summed up as follows. Buy during an uptrend when the price hits the mean price or oversold band, and sell during a downtrend when the price hits the mean price or the overbought band. This simple strategy will keep your losses to a minimum when the market is flat or jumpy.

    However, you can create your own trading strategies, as long as trades are taken inside the bands or close to the mean price. Almost any indicator can be useful in conjunction with the Lopez Trend indicator without altering the value it provides: isolation from market noise.

    Additionally you can fine-tune the entry strategy using other discretionary price action ingredients, such as false breakouts, pin bars, fractals, candlestick patterns or breakouts. Just make sure not to buy above the overbought level, and not to sell below the oversold level.

  • ? FAQ
    Is this an always in the market indicator?
    No, it is not. You can only go long below the upper band and short above the lower band. A change in the trend direction doesn't mean you should trade right away! The indicator eliminates market noise, but not all of it. You must wait until the price bounces back to the mean price before trading or closing trades.
    Can I drag and drop the dashboard on the chart?
    Yes, you can!
    Where should I place the stop
    profit?
    The indicator does not display stop
    The indicator looks very good. Are you sure it does not repaint?
    Yes, positive. The indicator does not repaint. Please download the demo to make sure before buying.
    Which are the input parameters?
    Actually, the indicator has only one input parameter, which is the amplitude. If you use Metatrader5, you will see a dropdown menu. If you use Metatrader4, it is an integer value between 1 and 4. The indicator needs zero optimization or explanation.
  • </> Developers

    In order to build your expert advisor, you can read data from the indicator using the iCustom() function as exemplified below. The indicator has one extra buffer which only purpose is to store trading signals as constants: this is the only buffer you need to read from. Copy and paste the code below into your EA, and replace the indicator name of the iCustom() call with your own.

    //---- Read value from trend and signal buffer
    int start()
    {
    // Read values
    double trend  = iCustom(Symbol(), Period(), "PZ_LopezTrend_LICENSENUM", 5, 1);
    double signal = iCustom(Symbol(), Period(), "PZ_LopezTrend_LICENCESUM", 6, 1);
    // Do something
    if(trend  == OP_BUY)      { /* Your code if trend is currently bullish */ }
    if(trend  == OP_SELL)     { /* Your code if trend is currently bearish */ }
    if(signal == OP_BUY)      { /* Your code for bullish trend change */ }
    if(signal == OP_SELL)     { /* Your code for bearish trend change */ }
    // Exit
    return(0);
    }

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Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader
Lopez Trend Indicator for Metatrader

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