Money & News¶

Strategy Core

Money management stops the strategy for the rest of the day, week or month once its own result reaches a profit or loss limit. News pauses entries around the events of a shared news calendar and can close positions before them.

Money management¶

Parameter	Default	What it does
Calculation type	Currency	Unit of the limits in this group: account currency, or percent of the account value at the start of the period.
Enable Daily Profit	Off	Stop taking entries once the strategy's own result for the trading day reaches Daily profit.
Daily profit	1000	Day's profit at which the strategy stops, counted from its own trades. 0 = off.
Enable Daily Loss	Off	Stop taking entries once the strategy's own loss for the trading day reaches Daily loss.
Daily loss	1000	Day's loss (a positive number) at which the strategy stops, counted from its own trades. 0 = off.
Enable Weekly Profit	Off	Stop taking entries for the rest of the week once the week's result reaches Weekly profit.
Weekly profit	3000	The week's profit at which the strategy stops, in the unit of Calculation type. It counts only what this run has traded since it started. 0 = off.
Enable Weekly Loss	Off	Stop taking entries for the rest of the week once the strategy's own loss for it reaches Weekly loss.
Weekly loss	3000	Week's loss (a positive number) at which the strategy stops. 0 = off.
Enable Monthly Profit	Off	Stop taking entries for the rest of the month once the strategy's own result for it reaches Monthly profit. The month is the calendar month of the exchange trading day.
Monthly profit	10000	The month's profit at which the strategy stops, in the unit of Calculation type. It counts only what this run has traded since it started. 0 = off.
Enable Monthly Loss	Off	Stop taking entries for the rest of the month once the strategy's own loss for it reaches Monthly loss.
Monthly loss	10000	Month's loss (a positive number) at which the strategy stops. 0 = off.
Use high-watermark	Off	Stop for the day, week or month once it gives back too much of its best result. Each period has its own settings below.
HW day trigger	500	Profit the day must reach before its high-watermark applies. 0 = off.
HW day drawdown	250	How much the day may give back from its best result before the strategy stops. 0 = off.
HW week trigger	1500	The profit the week must reach, in the unit of Calculation type, before its high-watermark starts to matter. The week keeps its own best across its days. 0 = off.
HW week drawdown	750	How much the week may give back from its best result before the strategy stops. 0 = off.
HW month trigger	5000	The profit the month must reach, in the unit of Calculation type, before its high-watermark starts to matter. The month keeps its own best across its weeks. 0 = off.
HW month drawdown	2500	How much of its best the armed month may give back before it stops, in the unit of Calculation type. Measured from the best the month has been. 0 = off.
On limit	Block entries	What happens when a limit is reached. BlockEntries: no new entries. BlockAndClose: the open position is also closed at market.

News¶

The news are kept in one calendar shared by all the pack's strategies - edit it once, every strategy uses it. In a strategy's settings press ... next to Events: the News calendar window opens (x clears the calendar).

In the window	What it does
Times are in	The time zone the calendar's times are written in - Eastern by default, as published calendars use. Strategies convert them to the time zone of their chart.
Date / Time / Title	One row per event.
Add event	A new row.
Import CSV	Adds the events of a CSV or TXT file to the list.
Ok	Saves the calendar.

Events are dated: nothing repeats by itself - keep the calendar current, for example by importing the week's events.

CSV format - one event per line: date,time,title (a comma, semicolon or tab between them), in the time zone chosen in the window:

2026-10-09,08:30,Non-Farm Payrolls
2026-10-14,08:30,CPI
2026-10-29,14:00,FOMC Rate Decision

Dates: yyyy-MM-dd (also yyyy.MM.dd, yyyy/MM/dd, MM/dd/yyyy, dd.MM.yyyy). Times: HH:mm (also HH:mm:ss, h:mm AM). Lines that are not a date and a time are skipped and counted.

Parameter	Default	What it does
Events	—	The news calendar, shared by all ASF strategies. Press ... to edit it, x to clear it. Times are converted to the chart's time zone.
Minutes before	5	No new entries from this many minutes before a news event.
Minutes after	5	No new entries until this many minutes after a news event.
Exit before news	Off	Close an open position at market Seconds before a news event. Off: the position keeps its stop and target.
Seconds	60	How many seconds before a news event the position is closed.