This is the user guide for Aurum Gold Portfolio and its free edition Aurum Gold Breakout Duo , two Expert Advisors for gold (XAUUSD) on MetaTrader 5. The three set files mentioned below are attached at the end of this post. 1...

Many traders end up with accounts on both platforms: a broker that only offers MetaTrader 4, a prop firm on MetaTrader 5, an old MT4 account with a strategy that still works...

View the accompanying illustration: EA validation workflow An attractive equity curve is the beginning of an EA investigation, not evidence that a trading system is ready for deployment...

View the accompanying illustration: FX options analysis framework FX options reveal the price of uncertainty, but they do not provide a ready-made forecast of spot direction...

This is the full user manual for Holy Cow, the XAUUSD Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5 that sits out the early part of a move and trades only the stretched end of it. It is a free PDF, attached at the end of this post and updated with each new version of the EA...

This is the full user manual for Cash Cow Cent, the XAUUSD grid Expert Advisor for cent accounts on MetaTrader 5. It is a free PDF, attached at the end of this post and updated with each new version of the EA...

GoldDragon · XAUUSD M5 · Honest progress report It has been one week since I deployed the new version of the code. To be honest, this week has been a struggle. But one week is far too short to judge this strategy. It should be evaluated over at least one full month...

Even a well-planned prop challenge can be derailed by one bad trading day — a revenge trade after a stop-out, a position sized too large before the news, or a loss that quietly crosses the daily limit while you are still watching the chart...

By Cree Lawson A profit factor of 5 will get my attention. So will 8, or 12. But before I get excited about the number, I want to see what produced it. How many trades? How many losses? What happened to the account's equity while those trades were open...

An attractive historical curve is a starting point for questions. The next useful question is whether the settings chosen during development still behave sensibly on a later period that did not influence their selection. That is the purpose of an out-of-sample check...

Why I test gold EAs from 2022 – what short backtests don't show you A beautiful curve is not proof A gold EA that shows a perfect equity curve from 2024 onwards has proven very little...

Get Gold Trend Matrix EA for FREE ! Fully automated XAUUSD trading Gold is not only one of the most attractive markets. It can also destroy a trading account. It rewards discipline generously and punishes mistakes without mercy...

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The same Expert Advisor can show different results on two accounts at two brokers. On gold the reasons are usually concrete and measurable: spread, StopLevel, commission, slippage and contract size...

Inside Multicore Nexus: How Its Gold Strategies Work Together Gold doesn’t move the same way all the time. Sometimes it trends. Sometimes it breaks out. And sometimes the opportunity comes from a pullback or reversal. So why build an EA around only one type of setup...

This is the user guide for Aurum Range Breakout and its free edition Aurum Asian Range Breakout , two Expert Advisors for gold (XAUUSD) on MetaTrader 5. The three set files mentioned below are attached at the end of this post...

In early October 2026 I finally did something I had been putting off: I sat down and audited ten of the best-selling scalping and martingale EAs on the MQL5 Market. Not to review them, not to rank them — I wanted to know what their public track records actually show when you read them slowly...

I run a personal account and funded accounts from one Windows VPS and wanted trades from one to appear on the others without placing them three times. Below is how I set it up with plain MetaTrader 5, including the mistakes that cost me money first. Every account here belongs to me. 1...

A reliable trade copier needs to do more than send an order from one MT5 terminal to another. It needs to know whether the connection is healthy, whether trades remain synchronized, and what to do when execution doesn't go exactly as planned...

Event to watch today: 17:30 EET. USD - Crude oil inventory data from the Department of Energy 21:00 EET. USD - Release of the FOMC meeting minutes USDJPY: $25 for a risk-free start...