Sotirios Karkalakos - skarkalakos - Profil des Traders

Sotirios Karkalakos

3 (6)

Information

13+ Jahre Erfahrung	5 Produkte	698 Demoversionen
0 Jobs	0 Signale	0 Abonnenten

Freunde 299

Stanislau Siatsko

Gelium

Seyed Mohammad Mortazavi

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.11.04

Most of the profit comes from a few trades. That's normal for trend following, and it's why you should never close the winners by hand.

Gold Channel Rider, MT5 Strategy Tester 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
1,605 trades in total.
The best 80 trades (5%) made 77% of the net profit.

The other 95% of trades roughly pay for each other. Small wins, small losses, stops hit, breakouts that fade. Then gold starts a real move, and a trailing stop rides it for days.

The practical lesson:
- Don't take profit early because "it's up nicely". That trade might be one of the 80.
- Don't skip trades after a few losses. You can't know in advance which breakout becomes the big one.
- Let the EA run all four strategies, so it is there when the move starts.

Free demo for the MT5 Strategy Tester:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.31

14 losing trades in a row. That happened, and I want you to know before it happens to you.

Gold Channel Rider, MT5 Strategy Tester 2013 - 2026, 1,605 trades:
- Win rate: 50.7%
- Average winning trade: 85 USD
- Average losing trade: 50 USD
- Longest losing streak: 14 trades

How does a system with a coin-flip win rate make money? The average winner is 1.7 times the average loser. Small losses, cut by the stop. Bigger wins, left to run.

What do 14 losses in a row cost? Each trade risks 0.5% of the account, so about 6.8% in total. Painful, survivable, and already inside the 9.3% maximum drawdown of the backtest.

A martingale or grid EA "solves" losing streaks by doubling down. That is how a 95% win rate turns into an empty account. Here the next lot is never bigger because the last trade lost.

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.28

The ugly part of my gold EA, in numbers: 755 days without a new high.

From September 2021 to September 2023, Gold Channel Rider did not make a new equity high in the MT5 Strategy Tester (0.5% risk per trade). The deepest point of that stretch, in March 2023, was 9.3% below the peak. That is the maximum drawdown of the whole 13.7 years.

Then gold started trending again: the rest of 2023 recovered the loss, and 2024 (+20.4%) and 2025 (+29.4%) followed.

Why do I post this? Because every trend follower has stretches like this, and most sellers only show you the smooth part. If you know it in advance, you don't switch the EA off at the worst moment, which is exactly when most people quit.

If you cannot sit through two flat years, this EA is not for you, and I'd rather you know that before you buy.

Free demo, check the 2021 - 2023 period yourself:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.24

Gold Channel Rider is not one strategy. It is four, and each one has to pay for itself.

All four trade breakouts of gold's recent range, with a hard stop on every trade:
S1: 5-day channel, wide stop
S2: 10-day channel, trailing stop
S3: 20-day channel, trailing stop, near target
S4: 20-day channel, wide stop

MT5 Strategy Tester, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade, each strategy on its own:
S1: 475 trades, profit factor 1.53, +5,634 USD
S2: 490 trades, profit factor 1.82, +10,717 USD
S3: 379 trades, profit factor 2.04, +9,531 USD
S4: 261 trades, profit factor 1.60, +3,901 USD

None of them is carried by the others. Different channel lengths catch different moves, so the losing stretches don't all arrive at once.

Each strategy has its own on/off switch. With a smaller account, switching off S1 and S4 (the wide-stop ones) lowers the risk of the minimum lot.

Free demo:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.21

Don't trust EA screenshots. Including mine.

Every number I post about Gold Channel Rider comes from the MT5 Strategy Tester, and you can check it yourself in about three minutes with the free demo:

1. Symbol XAUUSD, period H1, model "1 minute OHLC" or "Every tick"
2. At least five years, for example 2020 to today. A trend follower judged on three months tells you almost nothing.
3. Deposit 10,000 USD or more, or load the "Small account" setfile for a smaller deposit.

What you should see (2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk): 13 of 14 years profitable. Some years are big (+29% in 2025, +24% in 2020), some are nearly flat (+1% in 2018), and 2022 was -5%. Flat stretches are part of trend following, and I'd rather show them than hide them.

If your result looks very different, write in the Comments tab and I will help you find why (usually the symbol name, the period or the deposit).

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.12

Passing a prop firm challenge is not about the good weeks. It is about surviving the bad one.

What Gold Channel Rider does to protect the account:
- Hard stop loss on every trade, sent with the order. Nothing is ever open without one.
- Flat for the weekend: no new orders late on Friday, everything closed before the market shuts. No Monday gap.
- Daily loss limit: reach it and the EA closes everything and pauses until the next day.
- Maximum drawdown stop, measured from peak equity: reach it and trading stops.
- No grid, no martingale, no averaging down.

There is a ready-made Prop firm setfile in the Comments tab of the product page: 0.25% risk per trade, 3% daily loss limit, 6% maximum drawdown. Load it, check your firm's own limits, and adjust if they are stricter.

Test it in the Strategy Tester first with the free demo:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.09

One input decides how aggressive Gold Channel Rider is: risk per trade.

Every trade is sized from its own stop loss, so "0.5% risk" means that if the stop is hit you lose 0.5% of the account. Not more.

Same rules, same 13.7 years of XAUUSD (MT5 Strategy Tester, 10,000 USD start):
0.25% risk -> 19,922 USD | 5.2% a year | max drawdown 8.5%
0.5% risk (default) -> 39,783 USD | 10.6% a year | max drawdown 9.3%
1% risk -> 164,808 USD | 22.7% a year | max drawdown 18.0%

The honest part: growth and drawdown rise together. There is no setting that gives you 1% returns with 0.25% pain. My advice is to start at 0.5% or lower.

One more honest detail: gold's stops are wide right now, so the minimum lot of 0.01 already risks about 75-150 USD per trade. For a true 0.5% plan on roughly 30,000 USD. Smaller account? Use the "Small account" setfile from the Comments tab.

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.05

A 92% win rate can still empty your account.

Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.

156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.

Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.

Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.

Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.05

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.01

One rule made my gold EA better. And I chose it before I looked at the result.

Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.

Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035

How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.

Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.

Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.10.01

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.09.27

Most gold EAs you see here show a 95% win rate and a perfectly straight equity line. Look closer and you will usually find a grid, a martingale, or no stop loss at all. Those curves are smooth right up to the day the account is gone.

Gold Channel Rider does the opposite.

- 4 breakout strategies on XAUUSD (5, 10 and 20-day channels)
- A hard stop loss on EVERY trade, sized by ATR
- No grid. No martingale. No averaging down. Never a bigger lot after a loss
- A 120-day trend filter: it only trades in the direction of gold's bigger move
- Friday close, spread and slippage guards, ready-made prop firm settings

MT5 Strategy Tester, Jan 2013 - Sep 2026, default settings, 0.5% risk per trade:
10,000 -> 39,783 USD
10.6% a year | max drawdown 9.3% | profit factor 1.75 | 1,605 trades
13 of 14 years profitable

The win rate is 50.7%, and I show it on purpose. A trend follower wins by letting winners run and cutting losers short, not by hiding losses.

Don't take my word for it. Download the free demo, run it in your own Strategy Tester with your own broker's data, and compare the result with the chart above. 4 setfiles (Default, Conservative, Small account, Prop firm) are in the Comments tab.

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.

Sotirios Karkalakos 2026.09.18

Beitrag I built three gold grid EAs and measured them honestly veröffentlicht

Every week someone posts a gold EA with a win rate above 95% and an equity curve that goes up like a staircase. I wanted to know whether that is a strategy or an accounting trick, so over the last month I built three grid systems for XAUUSD and tested each one until it told me the truth...

484

Sotirios Karkalakos Hat ein Produkt angeboten 2026.09.13

Gold Channel Rider

499.00 USD

Im Reiter Kommentare liegen vier fertige Set-Dateien bei: Default, Conservative, Small account (unter 15.000 USD) und Prop firm - zusammen mit den genauen Einstellungen für den Test der kostenlosen Demo. Gold Channel Rider ist ein vollautomatischer Expert Advisor für XAUUSD . Er beruht auf einer der ältesten Ideen des systematischen Handels, die bei Gold bis heute trägt: Bricht der Kurs aus einer mehrtägigen Spanne aus, läuft er oft weiter. Er betreibt vier unabhängige Breakout-Strategien

Sotirios Karkalakos Hat ein Produkt angeboten 2026.09.06

Grid Guard

149.00 USD

Ihr Grid-EA gewinnt 9 von 10 Trades. Das war nie die Frage. Ich habe den Mechanismus, den die meistverkauften Gold-Roboter verwenden — Grid, Recovery, kein Stop-Loss auf irgendeiner Position, ein harter Equity-Stop — über vier Jahre echter XAUUSD-Daten laufen lassen, mit echtem Spread aus jedem Balken, echter Kommission und echtem Swap. 156 von 169 Serien im Gewinn. Eine Trefferquote von 92,3 %. Das Konto endete bei minus 86,2 %, mit einem maximalen Drawdown von 96,8 %. Beide Zahlen sind

· 1

Sotirios Karkalakos Hat ein Produkt angeboten 2026.09.02

VolGuard Volatility Risk Manager

199.00 USD

Fast alles, was für MetaTrader verkauft wird, sagt die Richtung voraus. Ich habe geprüft, ob das überhaupt möglich ist: dreizehn Jahre EURUSD und Gold, Walk-Forward-Validierung, dazu ein Kontrolldurchlauf mit zufällig vertauschten Labels. Die Richtung landete zwischen 48 und 51 Prozent. Bei Gold erreichten dieselben Modelle 53,4 Prozent auf den vertauschten Labels - also mehr als auf den echten Daten. Genau so sieht ein überangepasstes System von innen aus, und deshalb ist eine Backtest-Kurve

Sotirios Karkalakos Hat ein Produkt angeboten 2026.08.16

Prop Guard Monitor

FREE

Die meisten Trader, die bei einem Auswahlverfahren einer Prop-Firma durchfallen, scheitern nicht, weil sie die Regeln nicht kannten. Sie scheitern, weil in dem entscheidenden Moment niemand die Berechnungen durchgeführt hat. Prop Guard Monitor übernimmt diese Berechnung. Es läuft auf einem Chart, überwacht das gesamte Konto und beantwortet kontinuierlich eine Frage: Wie viel Spielraum bleibt noch, bevor eine Regel verletzt wird? Es schließt niemals eine Position. Es löscht niemals einen

Sotirios Karkalakos Hat ein Produkt angeboten 2026.08.14

Prop Guard Risk Enforcer

39.00 USD

Ein finanziertes Konto verliert man nicht an dem Trade, den man bereut. Man verliert es an dem, der noch offen war, als das Tageslimit bereits überschritten wurde. Prop Guard sitzt auf einem einzigen Chart und überwacht das gesamte Konto. Er eröffnet keine Trades und erzeugt keine Signale. Er beantwortet fortlaufend genau eine Frage: wie viel Spielraum bleibt, bevor eine Regel bricht — und wenn die Antwort nahe genug an null kommt, handelt er. WAS DIE MEISTEN WÄCHTER FALSCH MACHEN Ihr

1 2