Gold House: The Gold EA We Used Internally Before Deciding to Share It
Before We Begin
This is going to be a longer read.
Because I don't want to just tell you "this EA is great, go buy it." I want you to understand how it came to be, why we made the design choices we did, and whether it's truly right for you. If you finish reading and decide it's not a fit, that's perfectly fine — at least you'll walk away with a clearer understanding of gold breakout trading.
But if you've been struggling with losses, if you're searching for a system with clear logic and proven structure, I hope this article gives you something genuinely useful.
I. Where It Started
When our team first started building EAs, we were like everyone else — chasing whatever strategy was popular. Moving average crossovers, RSI overbought/oversold, Bollinger Band reversion... We wrote, tested, and ran nearly every classic strategy available.
Some looked beautiful in backtests but fell apart in live trading. Others worked for a while but broke down the moment market conditions shifted. We were stuck in an endless loop of develop, deploy, fail, rebuild.
Until one day, someone on the team asked a simple question:
"Is there a strategy whose core logic won't become obsolete, regardless of what price gold is at or what year it is?"
That question brought us back to the fundamentals of price action.
II. Why Swing Breakouts?
We spent considerable time reviewing gold's movement from 2017 to 2024, and we kept observing the same phenomenon:
Whether gold was at 1200, 1800, or 3000 — whenever a trend formed, price always advanced by breaking previous highs or lows. No indicator told us this. It's the nature of market structure itself — swing high/low breakouts are the most primitive evidence that a trend exists.
Moving averages lag. RSI gets desensitized. Bollinger Bands distort. But as long as people are trading gold, swing highs and lows will form. As long as trends exist, breakouts will happen.
This realization became the foundation of Gold House.
III. From Idea to System: The Problems We Solved
Having the idea of "breakout trading" was far from enough. The first version, frankly, was mediocre. We encountered several core problems, each requiring significant time to solve:
Problem 1: Too Many False Breakouts
Pure breakout entries don't have a great win rate. Price breaks above the previous high, then immediately reverses — this happens constantly during ranging markets.
Our solution was a multi-layer directional filtering mechanism. The EA doesn't enter the moment a breakout occurs. Instead, it first confirms whether the current trend direction supports the breakout. Only when direction aligns does it open a position, dramatically filtering out ineffective trades from false breakouts.
Problem 2: Rising Gold Prices Made Parameters Inaccurate
This is a fatal problem many gold EAs face. Parameters optimized when gold was at 1800 become completely wrong when gold reaches 2500. Stop loss distances, take profit targets, trailing stops — all misaligned. Many EAs "stop working" this way. The logic isn't broken — the parameters can't keep up with price.
We developed an adaptive market system for this. All risk control parameters are dynamically linked to the current gold price, adjusting proportionally in real time. When gold is at 3000, parameters adapt to 3000-level volatility. When gold drops to 2000, parameters contract automatically. No manual adjustments needed every few months. Set once, effective long-term.
This is the part of Gold House we're most confident about.
Problem 3: Single Strategy Silence Periods Were Too Long
Even the best breakout strategy will encounter periods where the market doesn't cooperate. Consolidation phases can last one to two months with minimal trade signals and almost no account activity.
Our approach was to design five independent breakout strategies tracking different structural levels and breakout patterns, all running simultaneously. Each opens and manages positions independently without interfering with others. When one strategy goes quiet, the others keep working, maintaining stable overall trade frequency.
Problem 4: Profits Were Always Cut Short
The biggest regret in breakout trading is catching a major move, only to close too early.
We designed a smart trailing stop plus partial close combination. After a move initiates, partial profits are locked at key levels, while the remaining position follows with a trailing stop, giving profits room to extend. No getting shaken out by a single pullback, and no riding the roller coaster back to breakeven.
IV. 7 Years of Data — What We Found
Gold House was developed and validated on complete gold data from 2017-2024. These 7 years covered:
- The prolonged low-volatility sideways market of 2018-2019
- The extreme volatility from the 2020 COVID pandemic
- The choppy, false-breakout-heavy period of 2021-2022
- The strong uptrend and high-volatility environment of 2023-2024
We didn't cherry-pick favorable time periods for backtesting. On the contrary, we paid special attention to how the strategy performed during the hardest conditions — the low volatility of 2019, the relentless chop of 2022. A strategy that only performs well in trending markets but gives back all profits during consolidation has no real value.
Gold House does slow down during low-volatility periods, with drawdowns staying within controlled range. But once trending conditions emerge, it captures and holds efficiently. This is exactly the characteristic we wanted: patient through the quiet times, ready when the action comes.
V. Why Go Public Now?
To be honest, Gold House was never meant to be listed. It was always an internal tool for our team's own trading.
But recently, we've seen too many traders in the community suffering significant losses on gold. Some were trading manually but couldn't handle the volatility — stop losses set poorly, getting whipped out by a single pullback. Others were using EAs unsuited for current conditions — grid strategies blowing up in trending markets, martingale systems digging deeper holes.
We discussed it internally for a long time and finally decided: since we have a validated tool in our hands, why not make it available so more people have the opportunity to use it.
To be clear — we did not re-optimize the backtest curve for listing. The backtest data and live performance you see on the product page are from the exact version we've been running ourselves. We don't want to sell products by beautifying data, because ultimately that hurts the users who trust us.
VI. Is It Right for You?
Gold House is a good fit if you:
- Want a gold automated trading system with transparent logic and strict risk control
- Don't want to frequently adjust parameters manually — prefer set-and-forget, long-term operation
- Can accept that breakout strategies perform quietly during consolidation periods
- Have reasonable expectations — not chasing overnight riches, but seeking long-term consistency
Gold House is not for you if you:
- Expect large daily profits and can't accept any drawdown
- Want a "guaranteed profit" system (these don't exist)
- Lack the patience to wait through 1-3 month consolidation periods
We'd rather be upfront here than have you disappointed after purchasing due to mismatched expectations.
VII. Getting Started
Product link: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/165036
Recommended setup:
- Symbol: XAUUSD / GOLD
- Timeframe: Any — just attach to chart
- Capital: Minimum $100 / Recommended $1,000+ / Optimal $2,000+
- Environment: VPS (recommended)
- Broker: Low spread ECN, gold spread within 25 points
After purchasing, please message me directly. I'll send you complete recommended parameters, usage instructions, precautions, and optimization tips. We want every user to launch in the best possible configuration.
Author profile: https://www.mql5.com/en/users/walter2008
Final Words
After years in this industry, we've seen too many things that "look beautiful" on the surface, and we've stepped in too many traps ourselves. We know deeply that the most important quality of an EA isn't how pretty the backtest curve looks — it's whether the logic can withstand the test of time, and whether the risk control lets you hold with confidence.
Gold House isn't perfect. It will have drawdowns. It will have quiet periods. It won't make you rich overnight. But its logic is clear, its risk control is strict, and it's been validated in real markets. If you're looking for a gold trading system you can trust long-term, we believe it deserves a serious look.
Start with demo. See how it performs in your environment. If you're satisfied, go live. No rush.
— TradingVisionX Team
