StrategyQuant Entry Types

Learn the four main entry order types in StrategyQuant: Market, Reverse Market, Stop, and Limit. Essential for beginners building trading systems.

Published · Updated · Methodology: Mixed

Part of: Algorithmic & Automated Trading

  • Methodology: Mixed
  • Content type: educational

Source video

Decoded from: Los 4 tipos de entrada de StrategyQuant (explicado fácil) by Jon Matilla — watch the original

Key timestamps:

  • 0:00 - Introduction to StrategyQuant entry types
  • 0:05 - Mention of Enter At Market, Enter Reverse At Market, Enter At Stop, Enter At Limit

Strategy overview

Automated trading turns a discretionary idea into a specification a machine can execute, and one field in that specification is almost always decided by default rather than on purpose: how the order actually reaches the market. This entry decodes Jon Matilla's short explainer "Los 4 tipos de entrada de StrategyQuant (explicado fácil)" — "The 4 StrategyQuant entry types, explained simply" — which walks through the four options the platform exposes at that point: Enter At Market, Enter Reverse At Market, Enter At Stop, and Enter At Limit.

The distinction is not cosmetic. A market entry buys certainty of execution and gives up control of price; a stop entry waits for price to trade through a level before committing, paying for that confirmation in a worse fill; a limit entry holds out for a better price and accepts that some signals will simply never be filled. The reverse variant is the odd one out, because it speaks to the position you already hold rather than to price placement alone. Feed the same signal into each of the four and you do not get one strategy with four cosmetic settings — you get four different trade lists, because the set of signals that actually become trades is different in each case.

That is why this page carries no indicator, timeframe or instrument: the topic sits underneath all of them. Entry type is orthogonal to the signal, which means it applies equally to every strategy built in the tool — and a platform that generates strategies has to fill that field in whether or not the human ever thought about it. No rule set was extracted here because there is none to extract; the source is a walkthrough of a setting, not a trade plan, and the entry types themselves are the content.

Topics

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Frequently asked questions

What are the four entry types in StrategyQuant?

As listed in the source video, they are Enter At Market, Enter Reverse At Market, Enter At Stop, and Enter At Limit. They describe how a strategy's order is placed once a signal fires — immediately at the current price, in the opposite direction of the current position, on a stop above or below the market, or on a limit waiting for a better price.

What is the difference between entering at stop and entering at limit?

A stop entry triggers when price trades through a chosen level, so it enters on continuation and generally fills at a worse price than the level itself. A limit entry sits at a level and waits for price to come back to it, which gives a better fill when it happens but leaves some signals unfilled entirely.

Does the entry type change backtest results?

It can, and often substantially, because it changes which signals become trades rather than just the price at which they open. A limit-based version of a rule set only trades when price returns to the level, so its trade list is not the same one the market-order version would have produced — which is also why entry type is worth testing explicitly instead of leaving at default.

Is this video a trading strategy?

No — it is an explainer on how StrategyQuant places orders, not a setup with entry and exit conditions, so there is no rule set attached to this entry. Strategy Decoder catalogs platform and methodology sources like this one alongside decoded setups, since the mechanics they cover apply across strategies rather than to any single one.

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This trading strategy was decoded by Strategy Decoder's AI from a public YouTube trading video and turned into a structured, reviewable specification. In the interactive app this page shows the full entry and exit logic, risk management settings, the indicators involved with their parameters, AlgoWizard-compatible logic and a Pine Script export ready for TradingView backtesting — plus an automated backtest verdict when one has been computed for this strategy.

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