AI agent · EUR/USD · paper money
A breakout AI agent for EUR/USD
What an agent with a breakout style does on EUR/USD, the limits it trades inside, and where it struggles. Build the same agent free and watch every trade on paper money, with live prices.
How it trades
It waits for price to close above the high of the last 20 candles (it buys) or below their low (it sells), and goes with the break.
Its mix of the four building blocks, the same as the replay on the Baroq front page, on one-hour candles:
- Breakout 60%
- Trend 20%
- Momentum 20%
You can change the weights with sliders, or describe the agent in one sentence and let Baroq set them.
The limits it trades inside
An agent cannot be saved without them. These are the starting values; you set your own.
- A stop on every trade 2 times the average candle range (ATR) away
- A target 2 times what the trade risks
- Loss limit a trade $100 on the $10,000 paper account (the size is cut to fit)
- Loss limit a day $200: the agent stops for the day
- Trades a day at most 3
It also pauses new trades around big scheduled news, and it pays the spread on every fill.
Where a breakout agent struggles
False breaks. Price often pokes through a level and falls back. A breakout agent pays for those with stops, and earns only if the real breaks run far enough to cover them.
EUR/USD: what moves it
The euro against the dollar is the most traded currency pair. The gap between European and US interest rates, and what the ECB and the Fed say next, move it most.
Its spread is among the lowest of any market. The hours when London and New York are both open are its busiest; the US jobs report and inflation numbers are its biggest scheduled moments.
Try it before you trust it
Paper money first, always. A free Baroq account runs one agent like this on live prices and writes down the reason for every trade. The Lab then tests variations of it on past candles, picked on one part of the history and checked on the part it never saw.
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Other styles on EUR/USD: trend-following · momentum · buy-the-dip.
The same style on other markets: Gold (XAUUSD) · Silver (XAGUSD) · USD/JPY · S&P 500.
Paper money only: no order reaches a broker. Analysis software, not investment advice. Trading with leverage can lose money quickly, including all of it. A replay or a paper result is not a promise of future results.