A detector is the block that watches a market and says "here is a setup". Each source in a strategy has one.
What is available
This build carries 25 detectors. They fall into two loose groups:
- Pattern detectors look for a shape in price: structure break and retest, an opening range break, a candle-pattern trigger, a fair value gap, an inverse fair value gap, a swing high or low, a break of a swing, a change of character, equal highs or lows, a liquidity sweep, an order block, a breaker block, an expansion candle, a supply and demand zone, a return into a fair value gap, a Fibonacci retracement, a Fibonacci extension, a trendline break, a trendline retest, and a retest box.
- Indicator detectors fire on a named calculation: price crossing a moving average, one moving average crossing another, the relative strength index (RSI) crossing a level, a Bollinger band, and a Donchian channel break.
Each detector's description says how it works, and nothing more.
Parts of a detector
Some detectors are made of named pieces you can set on their own, such as the opening range. In the builder these show under Parts of this detector.
Setting a value on the part, or on the detector itself, makes the same strategy.
Fields every detector asks for
Detectors differ, but most ask the same things:
- which timeframe the pattern is measured on
- which sides the source may take, long or short
- the widest stop a signal may have and still be traded
- where the protective stop is placed
- how long the source waits before it may fire again
All of these start blank.
What can go wrong
If a detector has a required field left empty, the whole strategy stays a draft. The builder lists exactly which fields those are.