Moving Averages model
An MA-touch model that combines fast/slow average logic with fractal validation for stop placement.
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The Moving Averages model opens on a touch of the fast average, but only if the nearest valid fractal to the left confirms the setup. That added structural validation prevents the model from behaving like a naive MA crossover or touch system.
After a valid entry, the used fractal is marked as consumed. A repeat entry under the same logic is considered only if price first returns to the other side of the fast average and then touches it again with a new suitable fractal on the left. That design gives the model memory and keeps it closer to a workflow rule than to a one-line indicator signal.
Core settings include:
- Model timeframe.
- Fast and slow MA values.
- Moving-average method and price source.
- Fractal mode used for stop placement.
- The reset logic after price crosses back through the fast MA.
Where the edge often comes from
The edge is usually not in “MA touch” alone, but in the combination of trend context, fractal validation, and better timing of pullback participation.
That makes this model worth testing together with Direction and Start After filters, not only as a standalone trigger.
In practice, the model is usually strongest when its local MA logic does not fight the bias already defined in Direction, especially when Direction is taken from a higher timeframe.
Other Lazy Trader sections
Config Mode and Lazy Trader 3 optimization
Config Mode turns dozens of Lazy Trader settings into controlled presets that can be iterated in Strategy Tester and then saved back into working plan cfg files.
Balanced Price Range (BPR)
BPR is the imbalance-compression model: it works with the overlap between opposite inefficiencies and lets you choose how deep into that balance zone entry should happen.
Classic Structure Reversal
Classic Reversal becomes relevant only when structure itself turns; it is not just a pullback model with a different stop.
Classic Structure via primary liquidity sweep
This variation opens on the first important structural violation and reads it as a sweep rather than as a full structural reversal.
Classic Structure Trend
Classic Trend participates on a pullback inside the active structure without requiring the structure direction itself to flip.
Classic Structure family
Classic Structure is the shared logic layer for three related pages: trend continuation, primary liquidity sweep, and reversal structure.
Larry-Williams model
Larry-Williams works with range extremes and supports both direct breakout continuation and return-entry logic after a raid back into the range.
Box-Fractal model
Box-Fractal uses a confirmed fractal range as the structural base for entry and stop placement rather than entering at the first raw extremum.
Base config
Base config is the shared risk and management layer that sits under each model and keeps model-specific logic from drifting into risk chaos.
Position Manager
Position Manager gives each open trade its own chart-level button and lets you adjust takes, breakeven, stop-loss, and level sizing without leaving the Lazy Trader workflow.
STATUS canvas
Status canvas merges Direction, Start After, End At, Time, and Models into one live state map, so you can see what is aligned, what is still pending, and why the plan is running or waiting.
MODELS menu
Models are the executable entry modules inside the plan, and the menu is built to let many different model types coexist under one scenario.
START AFTER menu
Start After does not pick the side of the trade; it defines what must happen before the plan is allowed to begin evaluating entries at all.
DIRECTION menu
Direction defines whether the plan is fixed long-only, fixed short-only, or dynamically biased through box, MA, or swing logic.
Automatic direction detection
This section explains the combined logic of Direction plus Start After, which is where many users actually shape the market bias of the plan.
TIME menu
TIME is where session logic lives: windows, overnights, weekday permissions, daily close, Friday close, and broker-specific timing constraints.
END AT menu
END AT defines when the plan stops looking for new positions, which is different from instantly flattening every already-open trade.
PLAN menu
PLAN is the root canvas: it is where risk, entry/stop/take, and the links to every other menu become one executable scenario.
What Lazy Trader does
Use this page when the main question is not “which button do I press”, but “what role does Lazy Trader play in the workflow at all”.