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Mach-Trend Platinum Pro indicator and trading system for NinjaTrader 8

A very easy to use trading strategy that is compatable with NinjaTrader 8 and stays on trends longer by avoiding whipsaw in trading systems

Mach-Trend-Platinum Pro in action. The paint bar makes trend changes visually simple and the trading strategy avoids whipsaws

Designed to give good risk / reward ratios by trading less. The MT indicator is not plotted in this example, available for all platforms, see the product guide.

 

 

This indicator for NinjaTrader 8 can deliver higher risk reward ratios due to its resistance to be shaken out of an established trend without a valid reason

Mach-Trend Platinum pro shown below with length 50 on GC Gold futures 15 minutes

The indicator plot changes colour when the trend changes which give you a clear to understand signal. Settings for the strategy much be identical to match the indicator.

Mach-Trend Platinum pro on 15 minute Gold futures

Please visit the product guide above if you require this for a different platform.

 

Introduction and concepts of the Mach-Trend Platinum Pro strategy and indicator for NinjaTrader 8


This product does not fit into a "category" like other indicators do. The algorithm behind it is highly efficient at calling the trends. Very robust and solid product.

Features of this trading system: What is a trading system?

This is a method of having your trading decisions made for you. It can operate manually as you copy the trades, or automatically if you connect to an online broker and enable autotrading.

Features of this product and what they do


Length

This controls the period used by the central algorithm. Shorter values produce more trades and longer periods increase the frequency between trades.

Delay

This adds a "margin of nothingness" to reduce frequency of trades. If you imagine it like an examination pass rate being 60% under normal rules. If delay is 4 then the pass rate becomes 64% which makes it harder to pass the exam or in this analogy it makes it harder to change the trend from up to down and vice versa.

TradeLong - TradeShort 

The default setting is 1 which means if both are set to 1 it will take long and short trades. If TradeShort is set to 0 it will only take long trades.


Skew direction

This setting is used to favour a particular direction to make it easier or harder to take a long or short trade. EG it distorts the trend.
If you set skew to +2 it will go short easier and it will be slower to go long. Suggest concept of this is for long term down trends.

If you set skew to -6 it will go long much easier and it will be very slow to enter a short trade. Suggested for bull markets in strong up trends.


Five percent rule

This is for those huge moves when being short of a market which is going into capitulation.
If there is just 5% of its value left Mach-Trend will exit the short position. Eg If you place the short at 100, the trade will exit at 5.
If it is not engaged by setting to 0, then it will stay in the short trade until the trend changes.


Exit on session close

Using this setting ticked is going to close out trades at the end of each day. Doing this will make drastic differences to end results. Cutting potential risk and potential gains.
This feature is part of NinjaTrader 8 rather than Mach-Trend Platinum Pro, it is mentioned because of its importance.


Timeframes

Mach-Trend Platinum Pro can be used on any time frame. Settings also influence results for example, if you used it will length 30 on a 15 minute chart, it will generate a similar amount of trades as it would if you used it at length 10 on a hourly chart.

 
Mach-Trend Platinum Pro strategy settings panel on NinjaTrader 8



How does Mach-Trend Platinum Pro indicator and strategy for NinjaTrader 8 behave on "ordinary" markets?



Mach-Trend is a very clever system which when applied to dull markets generally behaves itself very well.

However a trader must understand that to achieve exceptional ratios, one will do much better by seeking exceptional markets to apply this systems to.

I have always tried very hard to explain the importance of market selection as it is of paramount importance to get good results, many people with intelligence bordering on the genius level have not understood me on this point, and the more I think about it the more incredulous it seems.

A word of advice: To catch more fish, go where the fish are. To catch more trends, go where the trends are.


What markets can Mach-Trend Platinum Pro be used with?


This product works on Forex, Futures, Stocks, Indices, Bonds and any other market that has a price you can display in the NinjaTrader platform


The shot below shows the method of colours used to make Mach-Trend Platinum Pro operate as a paint bar study. 

Mach-Trend Platinum Pro set up as a paint bar study


The enemy of trading systems is often caused by commission costs caused by high frequency over trading

Frequency = F


By reducing F by such a huge amount, traders can now enjoy the luxury of making money for themselves instead of just making their brokers richer with commissions from over frequent trading systems. This statement is particularly true of day traders of futures markets.

It is a horrible fact that brokers grab roughly half the value of your account each year in costs.

Mach trend will be able to save your account going the same way as 90% of losing traders.

It is widely know that 90% of traders lose money

Mach trend is here to help you change that horrific statistic.

The black hole in the image below is used as an analogy of a trading account caused by commission costs.


Precision Stop settings



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User guidelines

After setting up on the chart and adding the strategy, it is time to do some study.

A good place to start is to run optimizations on the length.

If the top performing length is 54 then you can repeat the optimization with lengths from 34 to 64 and then also add the delay feature to the optimization with values from 0 to 10.

Then if you get the best result with length 48 and delay 4 you can repeat again and this time add the skew factor.

EG Length 48 can be set to 44 to 52
Delay setting from 2 to 6
Finally add in the optimization of skew from -6 to + 6

This manner of optimizing avoids the bad practice of curve fitting as you are growing on solid ground rather than finding a flukey result.


How to be a better trader by testing

Calculate on bar close = false.

This page link below.  You can work through the steps shown on this page to find robust settings.

On this page (for advanced users only) is an in depth method to check a symbol and instrument and strategy combination for robustness showing how to test a trading system

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Supporting NinjaTrader, Tradestation, MultiCharts, TradingView and MetaTrader 4 & 5.

 

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