EA Output¶

Output

Terminal EA sink. Wire entry signals, exit signals, and risk management configs here to define a complete strategy.

EA Output is the sink for live and exported automation. Where the Tester runs a backtest on the chart, EA Output defines a strategy in the form an Expert Advisor expects — a clean bundle of entry signals, exit signals, and risk-management legs — so it can be turned into a running automated strategy. It's the terminal block you wire when the goal is deployment, not just analysis.

How it works¶

Wire your boolean signals into Buy and Sell to open longs and shorts, and Exit L / Exit S to close them on non-price conditions. Risk management comes in as structured legs rather than loose pips: the SL socket takes a stop leg from Fixed Stop-Loss or Structural Stop-Loss, and the TP socket takes a target leg from Fixed Take-Profit or Reward-to-Risk Target. Because the risk is expressed as these composable legs, the same strategy definition translates cleanly into the automation's own order logic.

The division of labour is the thing to remember: the Tester is for researching and validating a strategy on historical data, while EA Output is for expressing the validated strategy for automated execution. They describe the same trading idea through different terminal blocks aimed at different stages of the workflow.

When to use it¶

Use EA Output once a strategy has earned its place — you've built it, backtested it honestly in the Tester, and want to drive it as automation. Wire the same entry/exit logic you validated, attach the risk legs, and the strategy is expressed in EA terms. During research you'll live in the Tester; EA Output is the step you take when an idea graduates from "does this work?" to "run it."

Example¶

Promote a validated strategy: take the entry logic you proved in the Tester — say a Crosses Above into Buy — attach a Structural Stop-Loss leg to SL and a Reward-to-Risk Target leg to TP, and wire them into EA Output to express the complete automated strategy.

Tips & gotchas¶

Tester for research, EA Output for deployment. Same idea, different terminal block for a different stage.
Risk comes in as legs, not pips — feed Fixed Stop-Loss/Structural Stop-Loss into SL and Fixed Take-Profit/Reward-to-Risk Target into TP.
Validate first. Don't wire a strategy here you haven't backtested honestly in the Tester — automation amplifies whatever edge (or lack of one) you built.
Exit sockets are for non-price exits — price stops/targets ride in through the SL/TP legs.

Inputs¶

Socket	Type	What to wire in
Buy (optional)	`signal`	Signal that triggers opening a long position
Sell (optional)	`signal`	Signal that triggers opening a short position
Exit L (optional)	`signal`	Signal that closes any open long positions
Exit S (optional)	`signal`	Signal that closes any open short positions
SL (optional)	`stats`	Stop-loss risk leg (from FixedSL / StructuralSL)
TP (optional)	`stats`	Take-profit risk leg (from FixedTP / RRTarget)

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