EA Trend Following Strategy - MA, RSI, ADX, CCI

H1 forex expert advisor: open above MA with prior-bar pullback to it, CCI and ADX thresholds, RSI above 50. Fixed-pip stop, ATR-multiple targets.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Technical Indicators

Part of: Moving Average Strategies

  • Methodology: Technical Indicators
  • Content type: strategy
  • Timeframes: H1 (mentioned as a possibility for Eurodollar)
  • Markets: Forex, Indices (mentioned for dynamic take profit)

Indicators used

  • Moving Average
  • RSI
  • ADX
  • CCI
  • ATR

Source video

Decoded from: 🎯 Cazando tendencias ilegales 🧨 Un robot perdido en la red y la IA que lo deja desnudo 🤯🛠️ by robotdeforex — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:44 - AI analysis of EA begins
  • 1:10 - Weekend filter rule
  • 1:18 - Price vs Moving Average entry condition
  • 1:30 - Confirmation indicators (CCI, ADX, RSI)
  • 1:45 - RSI condition for buy
  • 1:50 - Stop loss and break even rules
  • 2:00 - Friday close rule
  • 3:45 - Fixed stop loss parameter
  • 4:00 - Indicator settings
  • 4:20 - AI suggested improvements (dynamic take profit, trailing, partial closes)

Strategy overview

In most trading videos the moving average is a choice: someone decides to put it on the chart and explains why. Here it is a finding. A moving average smooths recent price into a single reference line that a system can compare price against — and in this entry that line is not authored, it is discovered, pulled out of a pre-built expert advisor downloaded from the internet and dissected on camera by an AI. The strategy filed under this title is therefore an autopsy report, not a lesson plan.

The source is robotdeforex's Spanish-language video "Cazando tendencias ilegales — un robot perdido en la red y la IA que lo deja desnudo" ("hunting illegal trends — a robot lost on the net and the AI that strips it bare"), and the pacing is the point: the AI analysis begins at 0:44 and the machine's whole anatomy is on the table roughly seventy seconds later. A calendar-based filter comes first at 1:10, the moving average enters at 1:18 as the entry's reference point, a three-indicator confirmation layer — CCI, ADX and RSI — stacks on between 1:30 and 1:45, and the trade-management side arrives at 1:50. ATR sits in the toolkit for sizing the exit, though no chapter is filed for it. That ordering says something about how this class of commercial EA tends to be built: one directional trigger, then several agreement conditions bolted around it to suppress what the trigger alone would take.

What the filing does not carry is worth stating plainly. No instrument is fixed — the only timeframe reference in the record is a hedged one, H1 raised as a possibility for the euro-dollar — and there is no test period, no dataset and no results segment behind the title's claim. No mechanical rules were decoded for this entry either, so this page covers the concept and the video's framing rather than a reconstructed rule set; the source video remains the place to see the teardown itself.

Topics

ea trading strategy · trend following strategy · forex strategy · ma crossover strategy · rsi strategy · adx indicator strategy · cci indicator strategy · h1 strategy · algorithmic trading · technical indicators · tradingview strategy · automated trading · trading strategy

Frequently asked questions

What is an expert advisor (EA) trend-following strategy?

An expert advisor is an automated trading program, typically for MetaTrader platforms, that executes rules without manual input. A trend-following EA is one whose core logic tries to identify a prevailing direction — commonly via a moving average — and take positions aligned with it rather than against it.

Why would a trend EA combine a moving average with RSI, ADX and CCI?

Each indicator answers a different question about the same move. A moving average gives the directional reference, ADX speaks to how strong a trend is rather than which way it points, RSI describes momentum, and CCI measures how far price has stretched from its own mean. Stacking them is a way of requiring several kinds of agreement before a trigger becomes a trade — at the cost of taking fewer of them.

What instrument and timeframe does this EA trade?

The source video does not fix either. The only timeframe reference in the record is H1 raised as a possibility for the euro-dollar, and no test period, dataset or performance figures are stated anywhere in the filing.

How can you analyze a trading robot you did not build?

By reverse-engineering it: reading its behaviour or its logic to recover which indicators drive entries, which act as filters, and how risk is handled — which is exactly what the source video does with an AI assistant. Strategy Decoder catalogs video sources like this one; for this particular entry no mechanical rules were extracted, so evaluating the approach means working from the video and testing the concept yourself before risking capital.

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