HTH Trader: Advanced Hedging Strategy for Reduced Drawdown

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HTH Trader is a sophisticated Expert Advisor (EA) designed to implement an advanced hedging strategy, aiming to significantly reduce the drawdown typically associated with pairs trading.

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The core concept of HTH Trader is to 'hedge the hedge'. This is achieved by strategically hedging currency pairs that are themselves often used for hedging. For instance, it hedges EURUSD with USDCHF, and GBPUSD with AUDUSD. This creates a 'hedge the hedge' strategy.

The EA manages trading positions actively, executing approximately four trades per day. To further limit drawdown, hedged positions are designed to remain open for only one trading day. The EA initiates new trades at the start of a new day and closes current positions when the broker's time reaches 23:00.

Trading Logic:
- When the previous day's deviation for EURUSD is positive, the EA enters long positions for EURUSD and USDCHF, and short positions for GBPUSD and AUDUSD. In this scenario, EURUSD is hedged with USDCHF, EURUSD is hedged with GBPUSD, USDCHF is hedged with AUDUSD, and GBPUSD is hedged with AUDUSD.
- When the previous day's deviation for EURUSD is negative, the EA enters short positions for EURUSD and USDCHF, and long positions for GBPUSD and AUDUSD.

This strategy leverages the strong correlation observed between the EURUSD/USDCHF ratio and the GBPUSD/AUDUSD ratio, making the 'hedge the hedge' approach viable.

New Function: Emergency Trading
If 'enable_emergency_trading' is set to true, the EA monitors for a specific 'emergency_loss' pip value. Upon reaching this threshold, it opens new trades that are expected to be profitable. For example, if EURUSD and USDCHF are in loss, while GBPUSD and AUDUSD are in profit, and the 'emergency_loss' is hit, the EA will open additional positions replicating the profitable GBPUSD and AUDUSD trades. This emergency function is designed to execute only once per day. It automatically restarts the next day and cannot be disabled without code modification.

EA Options:
- trade: Enables or disables trading.
- c1: First currency.
- c2: Second currency.
- c3: Third currency.
- c4: Fourth currency.
- show_profit: Enables tracking of profit/loss for all EA-executed trades.
- enable_profit: Enables profit monitoring to close all positions.
- enable_loss: Enables loss monitoring to close all positions.
- enable_emergency_trading: Enables entering new trades when the loss reaches the emergency_loss pip value.
- profit: Pip value for profit monitoring.
- loss: Pip value for loss monitoring.
- magicnumber1: Magic number for c1.
- magicnumber2: Magic number for c2.
- magicnumber3: Magic number for c3.
- magicnumber4: Magic number for c4.
- e_magicnumber: Magic number for emergency trades.
- lot: Order lot size.

Developed in 2026.

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#property copyright "robotfx"
#property link "https://robotfx.org"
#property version   "1.001"
#include <trade\positioninfo.mqh>
#include <trade\trade.mqh>
#include <trade\symbolinfo.mqh>  
cpositioninfo  m_position;                   // trade position object
ctrade         m_trade;                      // trading object
csymbolinfo    m_symbol;                     // symbol info object
input bool trade=true;

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• This tool is provided for educational and testing purposes only.
• Past performance does not guarantee future results.
• Trading involves substantial risk of loss. Use on a demo account first.
• Results may vary depending on market conditions, broker, and settings.
• We recommend thorough backtesting and forward testing before using with real funds.