Description
Most trading bots bet on a single idea and break when the market changes its mood. Matrix Edge Duo runs two independent, decorrelated engines and lets the market decide which one leads — automatically, bar by bar.
It was not curve-fit to look pretty. Every feature survived walk-forward out-of-sample testing, cost and slippage checks, robustness sweeps and bootstrap significance. What failed those tests was removed, not hidden.
🔧 How it works — two engines, one brain
Engine 1 — Breakout (trend capture) Kalman-filtered Donchian breakout, gated by EMA & daily-trend alignment and ADX. Enters on a confirmed retest of the broken level — better price, fewer fakeouts — with ATR stop, trailing, and partial scale-out to lock in winners.
Engine 2 — Mean-Reversion (the second edge) RSI(2) dip-buying inside a confirmed uptrend, with fast recovery exit and a catastrophe stop. Crucially, it is decorrelated from the breakout engine — when one is quiet, the other often works. That is what smooths the equity curve.
Regime brain — adaptive weighting A trend-strength signal (efficiency ratio) tells the bot when the market is trending vs choppy, and shifts weight toward the right engine in real time.
📊 Built-in optimized settings — ready to run
Matrix Edge Duo ships with pre-built, pre-optimized .cbotset profiles so you can load and trade in minutes:
XAUUSD— Breakout (retest) · Dual (retest + MR) · Dual + AdaptiveUS30— Mean-Reversion with regime filterAUDUSD/NZDUSD— Mean-Reversion
Each profile auto-configures the engine, entry style and per-asset tuning. Want more? Every one of the 65 parameters is exposed — add, tune and save your own profiles for any instrument, with full robustness controls built in.
🖥️ See exactly what the bot is doing
A clean chart by default — just the dashboard and controls. Then toggle catchy visual layers with one tap: breakout zones, mean-reversion zones, the daily trend filter, live retest levels, and entry/exit arrows. Full transparency, zero clutter.
💼 Capital, diversification & risk
The edge is real but lumpy on a single asset — trends pay in bursts. The power comes from running several decorrelated instances: that is what lifts risk-adjusted return and lets you size up safely.
Summary
- Engine 1 (Breakout): Uses a Kalman-filtered Donchian breakout strategy with EMA, daily trend alignment, and ADX filters. It enters trades on confirmed retests of breakout levels, employing ATR stops, trailing stops, and partial scale-outs to manage risk and lock in profits.
- Engine 2 (Mean-Reversion): Applies RSI(2) dip-buying within confirmed uptrends, with fast recovery exits and catastrophe stops. This engine operates independently from the breakout engine, providing smoother equity performance.
An adaptive regime brain uses a trend-strength signal (efficiency ratio) to dynamically allocate weight between the two engines in real time, optimizing performance across trending and choppy markets.
The bot includes pre-built, optimized profiles for instruments such as XAUUSD, US30, AUDUSD, and NZDUSD, with full parameter access (65 parameters) for customization and robustness controls. Visual layers can be toggled on the chart to display breakout zones, mean-reversion zones, trend filters, retest levels, and entry/exit signals, ensuring transparency.
Matrix Edge Duo supports position trading with low trade frequency, uses technical analysis indicators (EMA, Donchian Channels, ATR), and is designed for diversified deployment across multiple decorrelated instances to enhance risk-adjusted returns.
