GoldenShot - User Guide v1.10
Welcome, and thank you for choosing GoldenShot! This guide walks you through everything the EA does, every input it shows, and how to read its dashboard. GoldenShot is a single-position Expert Advisor for Gold (XAUUSD/GOLD) on MetaTrader 5: it waits for a qualified setup, takes one trade with a real broker stop loss, manages that trade, and only then looks for the next one. There is no grid, no martingale, and no lot scaling anywhere in the product. Take a few minutes to read this before your first launch — most support questions are answered below.
Live signal: GoldenShot on MQL5 Signals
⚡ Quick Start
If you only read one section, read this one:
- Allow algorithmic trading in MT5 and add https://nfs.faireconomy.media/ to the WebRequest list (details below).
- Attach GoldenShot to your broker's Gold chart, any timeframe. Keep the defaults for the first run.
- Check the Experts log: it prints the detected price unit, both strategies, the position-size mode, and the protection state.
- Look at the dashboard header. [RUNNING] in green means new entries are possible right now; any other text tells you what is holding them back.
- Back-test the exact symbol you trade with real ticks from 2025 onwards before going live.
⚠️ Before You Start
What GoldenShot expects from your setup. Getting these right on day one makes everything that follows much smoother:
- Platform: MetaTrader 5, hedging account, RAW/ECN pricing strongly preferred. Spread, commission, slippage, and the broker's minimum stop distance all affect results.
- Symbol: Gold. XAUUSD, XAUUSD with a broker suffix, and GOLD are recognised automatically, including three-decimal gold quotes. GoldenShot calibrates its price geometry to the quote precision and prints the resulting distance unit at start-up; read that line once on a new broker.
- Chart timeframe: Any. Both strategies read their own internal timeframes; the chart timeframe is only what you look at.
- Pips: Every distance in this guide is a GoldenShot pip = 0.10 in the gold price (10 cents), so 200 pips is a 20.00 USD move. That holds on two-decimal and three-decimal gold feeds alike, because the EA calibrates to the quote precision instead of counting broker points. Three-decimal feeds execute with the same distances but back-test such a feed before trusting the default profile there.
- Capital and lot size: Strategy 1 uses a 200-pip stop and Strategy 2 a 250-pip stop. On 0.01 lot that is roughly 20 USD and 25 USD of risk per full stop. The default 1% risk per trade can therefore be sized exactly from about 2,500 USD upwards (Strategy 2's 250-pip stop is the larger of the two). On a smaller account the EA falls back to the broker minimum lot (see Use Broker Minimum Lot) and prints the real percentage it is risking, so you always know. Nothing is hidden; read that log line once.
- VPS: Recommended. Trailing steps, breakeven moves, protective stop tightening, and the daily protection rules all need a connected terminal. The broker-side stop loss and take profit stay in force even when the terminal is offline.
- Cent accounts: Not recommended. The tested sizing assumes standard account units.
Risk warning: A single position with a real stop loss is the most transparent way to trade gold, but it is still leveraged trading. Gaps, slippage, disconnections, and rejected requests can produce a larger loss than the intended stop. Daily protection and the news filter reduce exposure; they cannot remove market risk.
⚡ Installation and First Launch
Step 1 — Allow Algorithmic Trading
- Open MT5 and select Tools > Options > Expert Advisors.
- Enable Allow algorithmic trading.
- Add https://nfs.faireconomy.media/ to Allow WebRequest for listed URL. This lets GoldenShot read the ForexFactory calendar. The same address is shown read-only at the top of the News Filter input group so you can copy it from there.
- Restart MT5 after changing WebRequest permissions.
Step 2 — Attach GoldenShot
- Open your broker's Gold chart.
- Drag GoldenShot from Navigator > Expert Advisors onto the chart.
- Confirm Allow Algo Trading on the Common tab.
- Review the Inputs tab. For a first run keep the defaults; they are the tested configuration.
- Click OK and confirm that the MT5 AutoTrading button is enabled.
Step 3 — Verify the Setup
- Open the Experts tab. A healthy start prints, in this order: the dashboard line, GoldenShot 1.10 ready on <symbol> with the detected distance unit and both strategies ON, the Dynamic Protection line, the Position Size line (mode, fixed lot, risk percentage, minimum-lot fallback), and the Entry Validation line.
- If the dashboard is enabled, confirm the header shows your symbol and a bracketed status, the Settings block shows your sizing and protection choices, and both strategy cards read Waiting for signal.
- Run a back-test on the exact symbol with real ticks from 2025 to today before live use. A result from another broker does not prove your feed behaves the same way.
🎯 How GoldenShot Operates
Think of GoldenShot as a loop with four stages. It spends most of its time in the first one.
1. Wait
New entries are considered only when every gate is open: the broker session is open, the current time is inside your trading windows, no news pause is active, spread is inside your configured limit, the post-close cooldown has expired, and neither daily protection rule has fired. If any gate is closed, the dashboard header tells you which one. None of these gates touches an open position.
2. Qualify, validate, size, enter
- Qualify: Each strategy watches for its own setup on its own timeframes. Whichever qualifies first owns the trade.
- Validate: Before any order is sent, the signal is compared against failure structures measured in real trading history — a bounce inside a collapsing move, a stall after an overextended day, a continuation that has already run out of road. A match means no order. In testing this removed most full-stop losses while skipping fewer than one signal in a hundred.
- Size: The lot is calculated from the trade's actual stop distance and your risk percentage, or taken from your fixed lot size.
- Enter: A market order with a broker-side stop loss and a broker-side take profit attached. No pending orders are ever placed.
3. Manage
- Trailing stop: Once the trade reaches its trailing-start distance, the broker stop loss follows price in fixed steps. Every move is a confirmed broker modification; the previous stop stays in force until the new one is accepted. The separate broker take profit (40 pips for Strategy 1 and 50 pips for Strategy 2) remains active and closes the trade if price reaches it before the trailing stop does.
- Breakeven (Strategy 1 SELL only): After eight pips of favourable movement, the stop is moved to a cost-aware breakeven that covers spread and commission.
- Rapid-failure protection (Strategy 1 only): A narrowly defined rule for a trade that turns against you shortly after entry. It needs the position to be at least 15 minutes old, several closed-candle confirmations that the move has genuinely reversed, and a fast adverse speed. When all agree, the stop is tightened to a small controlled loss (or to breakeven if the trade is still a few pips in profit) instead of waiting for the full 200-pip stop. Strategy 2 deliberately does not use this rule: in testing its losing and recovering trades looked too similar to separate safely, so it keeps its hard stop and wider trail.
- Never a hidden market close: Every protective action is a broker-side stop modification. The only thing that closes a trade at market is Daily Drawdown Protection, and only when you have enabled it.
4. Close and cool down
After the position closes — at the trailing stop, the take profit, the stop loss, or a tightened stop — GoldenShot waits seven minutes before evaluating new entries. The cooldown is restored from trade history after a reload, an input change, or a timeframe change, so restarting the EA cannot skip it.
Only one position exists at any time, across both strategies and both directions. There is no stacking, no hedging against yourself, and no second position opened behind the first.
🎯 The Two Strategies
- Strategy 1 — Pullback: Waits for price to pull back into a short-term support or resistance area and show a genuine rebound, confirmed by trend strength, momentum, and candle structure. Trades BUY and SELL. Higher frequency, tighter management: 200-pip stop, 40-pip take profit, trailing starts at 12 pips profit and steps every 3 pips. It is the only strategy carrying the rapid-failure protection, and its SELL side uses the eight-pip breakeven. Entry window 06:00 to 21:00 server time.
- Strategy 2 — Momentum: Looks for a fresh directional move backed by expanding volatility and healthy trend strength, and joins the continuation while structure holds, with its own guards against late and exhausted entries. Trades BUY and SELL. Fewer trades and a wider profile: 250-pip stop, 50-pip take profit, trailing starts at 24 pips and steps every 6 pips. Entry window 01:15 to 20:00 server time.
Each strategy's stop, target, trailing profile, and entry window were tuned separately in single-position mode across independent broker feeds and are fixed in this build. Their Enable and Magic Number controls are yours. The per-strategy windows sit inside the global Time Management windows; both must allow the time for an entry to happen.
Direction transparency: Trade Direction is a global permission. Both strategies implement both directions, so BUY only or SELL only simply restricts them; neither becomes idle.
🎯 Reading the Dashboard
The dashboard is a read-only panel. It never trades, and it is skipped automatically in non-visual Strategy Tester runs so it cannot slow a back-test or optimisation (enable Visual mode to see it there).
Header
The right side shows your symbol and a bracketed status. It answers one question: may GoldenShot open a new position right now, and if not, why? The most binding reason is always shown first.
- [RUNNING] (green) — every gate is open; a qualifying signal would be traded.
- [COOLDOWN] (orange) — inside the seven-minute pause after the last close.
- [PAUSED (NEWS)] (orange) — the News Filter is blocking entries. The exact event is shown in the Settings block.
- [OUTSIDE HOURS] (orange) — outside your Monday-Thursday or Friday windows, or a blocked calendar day.
- [MARKET CLOSED] (orange) — the broker publishes no trading session right now (weekend, daily break).
- [HALTED (LOSS LIMIT)] (red) — the maximum losing trades for today has been reached. Resumes on the next broker day.
- [HALTED (DRAWDOWN)] (red) — Daily Drawdown Protection has fired. Resumes on the next broker day.
Orange statuses clear on their own. Red ones need a new broker day.
Settings block
Left column: Risk per trade (or Fixed lot), Direction, and Daily DD — your configured limit, shown as a percentage or as money with the account currency, or OFF. Right column: Strategy 1 and Strategy 2 with their stop and trailing profile (for example SL 200 | TSL 12/3 = 200-pip stop, trailing from 12 pips in 3-pip steps), and Max losses/day. The news status sits in the block's top-right corner: News: Clear in green, or the active block in red — NEWS: for an ordinary minute window, NEWS DAY: for a full-day event, POST-NEWS: for the following-day pause, and USD BANK HOLIDAY (ALL DAY). Hover it for the source event time and when the pause ends.
Performance block
- CLOSED P/L — realised result of all GoldenShot trades on this symbol, found by the two Magic Numbers.
- DAILY P/L — realised result for the current broker day.
- DAILY DD — the live drawdown from today's observed peak equity. While Daily DD Protection is enabled, that peak is restart-safe. While it is off, the display is a session measurement beginning when this EA instance attaches; it is not reconstructed after a restart. This is a measurement, not your limit; the limit is in the Settings block.
Strategy cards
Each card shows the strategy's state: Waiting for signal, Disabled in settings, or, while its trade is open, the side, lot, and Floating. The number on the right is the floating P/L while a position is open and that strategy's realised result for today otherwise. The bottom line shows the live broker stop loss and the Profit Target.
Important: the TP on the card is the trailing-start price, not the broker take profit. When price reaches it, GoldenShot does not close the trade; it starts protecting it with a trailing stop. The optional orange dash-dot line on the chart marks the same price. The separate broker take profit is 40 pips for Strategy 1 and 50 pips for Strategy 2; it closes the trade if reached before the trailing stop.
🛡️ Input Parameters Explained
Your reference section. The defaults are the tested configuration, so start there and come back whenever you want to understand or adjust a specific input.
▶ Main Settings
- Position Size (default: Risk Per Trade (%)) — Chooses between a fixed lot and a percentage of your account per trade.
- Risk Per Trade (%) (default: 1.0) — Used only in Risk Per Trade mode. The lot is calculated so that a full stop loss costs this percentage of your capital base. The base is the smaller of balance and equity, with any broker credit or bonus excluded, so floating profit and bonus money never inflate the lot. Decimal values such as 0.5 are allowed. Because it is sized from the real stop, Strategy 1 (200-pip stop) and Strategy 2 (250-pip stop) receive different lots for the same percentage.
- Fixed Lot Size (default: 0.01) — Used only in Fixed Lot Size mode. The broker's minimum, maximum, and volume step are still applied.
- Max Spread (points, 0 = disabled) (default: 50) — Skips a new entry while the current spread is wider than the limit. On supported two- and three-decimal Gold feeds, 50 GoldenShot policy points means 0.50 in the gold price. Set 0 to disable this entry filter. It never pauses trailing, rapid-failure protection, or the broker-side stop and target of a position already open.
- Use Broker Minimum Lot if Needed (May Exceed Selected Risk) (default: true) — Risk Per Trade mode only. When the calculated lot is below the broker minimum, true trades the minimum lot anyway and logs the real percentage at risk; false skips the trade and keeps your percentage a strict ceiling. Small accounts should decide this consciously.
- Trade Direction (BUY/SELL) (default: BUY and SELL) — Allows BUY only, SELL only, or both, for both strategies.
- Enable Dashboard (default: true) — Shows the panel described above and the orange Profit Target guide. Turning it off removes every GoldenShot chart object.
- Trade comment (default: GoldenShot) — Text written to each order comment.
- Append strategy code to comment (default: true) — Adds the strategy tag to the comment so you can see which strategy opened each trade in your history.
▶ Strategies
- Enable Strategy 1 (default: true) and Strategy 1 Magic Number (default: 5991)
- Enable Strategy 2 (default: true) and Strategy 2 Magic Number (default: 5992)
Magic Numbers are ownership IDs, not risk settings. Never share them with another EA on the same account. If you run two GoldenShot instances on one account, give the second instance two different numbers. The dashboard's Closed and Daily P/L are found by these numbers, so a fresh pair correctly starts from zero.
▶ Daily Loss Protection
Two independent rules, both off by default, both designed with prop-firm daily limits in mind. Each resets at the start of the next broker day.
- Daily DD Protection (Prop Firm Style: Close Position and Stop Trading for the Day) (default: false) — Monitors the whole account's fall from the current day's observed peak equity, realized and floating together, so several stopped trades add up and the limit can trip between trades as well as during one. Monitoring and persistence begin only while this rule is enabled; time spent with it off is not reconstructed later. Enabling it during a broker day starts from current equity unless the same terminal already has state recorded from an earlier enabled session that day. When the limit is reached, GoldenShot closes its open position at market (if there is one) and takes no new trades for the rest of the broker day. While enabled, the halt and the day's peak are stored under the broker-server/account identity, independent of chart symbol and Magic inputs, so reloading the EA, changing inputs, or restarting MT5 on the same broker day does not lift them. Multiple enabled GoldenShot instances on that account in the same MT5 terminal share this daily state; use the same Daily DD mode and limit on each, because the first instance to reach its threshold halts all of them. An older broker day is replaced automatically, and there is no persistent lock that can be stranded when an EA or terminal is stopped. This is the only situation in which the EA closes a trade at market.
- Daily DD Limit Type (Percent or Money) (default: Percent) — Percent measures against the day's peak equity. Money uses an absolute amount in your account currency.
- Daily DD Limit (% of Daily Peak Equity, or Money) (default: 5.0) — 5% in Percent mode, or 5 currency units in Money mode. Must be positive, and below 100 in Percent mode; an invalid value is rejected at start-up. Execution can finish slightly beyond the limit in a fast market.
- Max Losing Trades Per Day (0 = Unlimited; Pauses New Entries Until Next Day) (default: 0) — Counts positions fully closed with a net loss (including entry/exit commission and swap) during the broker day. When the count reaches the limit, new entries pause until the next day. An open or partially closed position, its stop, and its trailing are untouched. The count is rebuilt from the position's complete deal history, so a long-held trade or restart cannot reset or truncate it.
▶ Time Management
Times are server time, anchored to the broker's winter offset and adjusted automatically for the usual GMT+2/GMT+3 seasonal shift. A global window and the strategy's own window must both allow the time.
- Base GMT offset, auto-adjusts for DST (default: 2) — Your broker's winter server offset. Change it only if your broker does not use GMT+2 in winter.
- Enable Monday-Thursday time filter (default: true)
- Monday-Thursday start times (default: 01:15;14:35;15:45)
- Monday-Thursday end times (default: 14:20;15:20;22:30) — The defaults form three windows: 01:15-14:20, 14:35-15:20, and 15:45-22:30. Use 24-hour HH:MM , separate pairs with semicolons, and keep the number and order of start and end values matched.
- Enable Friday trading (default: false) — Friday is off by default. Across 2025 to today it was the only net-negative weekday in testing: switching it off removed a handful of entries, cut gross loss by more than a third, and raised the profit factor noticeably without lowering net profit.
- Friday start time (default: 01:30) and Friday end time (default: 10:00) — Used only when Friday trading is enabled.
- Christmas holiday filter (no new trades Dec 20 - Jan 7) (default: true) — Blocks new entries in that range. An open position continues to be managed.
If you enable Friday, three fixed calendar rules still apply: no new entries on the first Friday of the month (NFP), on the last Friday of the month, or on any Friday in July and August. They have no switch. Time rules block new entries only; an open position keeps its stop, trailing, and protection and can be held across a window boundary or a weekend.
▶ News Filter
Gold reacts violently to news, so this is one of your most valuable tools. It blocks new entries; it never closes or stops managing an open trade. ForexFactory is used when the WebRequest permission is in place, otherwise GoldenShot falls back to the MQL5 Economic Calendar automatically.
- Forex Factory: Allow This URL in MT5 WebRequest Settings — Read-only reminder of the address to allow.
- Enable News Filter (ForexFactory, MQL5 Calendar) (default: true)
- Filter High Impact events (default: true)
- Filter Medium Impact events (default: false)
- Minutes before news to stop trading (default: 60)
- Minutes after news to resume trading (default: 60)
- Also Watch These News Currencies (USD by default) (default: USD) — Comma-separated list. USD is the primary news currency for gold.
- Other Medium Events to Treat as High (default: empty) — Add your own event-name keywords, comma-separated, case-insensitive.
- Other News to Block All Day + Next Day (default: empty) — Add your own keywords to the full-day list.
- Don't Trade on Selected News Day + Next Day (default: false) — When enabled, a matching high-impact event blocks its whole server date and the following one. GoldenShot ships with this off because a single position with a real stop does not need the wider margin a recovery system does; turn it on if your risk rules prefer it.
- Don't Trade on USD Bank Holidays (All Day) (default: true) — Blocks the holiday date only.
The protected event list (FOMC decision day, rate statements and press conferences, NFP in both spellings, CPI, and Fed Chair speeches) is kept inside the EA, so an old set file cannot remove it; the two Other fields only add to it. FOMC minutes keep the ordinary minute window rather than the full-day block.
▶ Dashboard Appearance
- Show Trailing-Start Profit Target Line on Chart (default: true) — Draws the orange dash-dot guide at the open trade's trailing-start price. Presentation only; it follows the dashboard switch.
- Scale override (0=auto, typical 1.0-1.5) (default: 0) — Keep 0 for automatic DPI scaling. Set a manual value only if the panel is unsuitable on a specific remote-desktop setup.
- Font name (default: Calibri) — Must be installed on the machine running MT5.
- Base font size (default: 9)
▶ Fixed on purpose
Max Spread is adjustable in Main Settings. The values deliberately kept internal are the seven-minute post-close cooldown and each strategy's stop, take profit, trailing profile, entry window, breakeven rule, and validation thresholds. They are fixed because they were tuned together, and changing one without the others would invalidate the evidence behind the product.
🛡️ Setting Up for a Prop Firm
GoldenShot fits evaluation and funded accounts naturally: one position, a real stop on every trade, and no recovery layer to explain to a risk desk. A few settings deserve a conscious choice:
- Daily loss rule: Turn on Daily DD Protection and set the limit below the firm's rule. GoldenShot measures from today's peak equity, while most firms measure from the day's starting balance or equity and count commissions and swaps in their own way. A firm limit of 5% is usually respected safely with a GoldenShot limit of 3-4%.
- Losing streaks: Max Losing Trades Per Day at 2 or 3 stops a bad day early without touching the open trade.
- Risk per trade: With a full stop of 200-250 pips, 0.5-1% is a reasonable range. Check the start-up log line to see what the minimum lot really risks on your account size, and set Use Broker Minimum Lot to false if you need the percentage to be a hard ceiling.
- News rules: If the firm forbids trading around news, widen the minutes before and after. The filter blocks entries only; a trade opened earlier can still be open when the release comes, with its stop in place.
- Weekend holding: GoldenShot does not close a position because the week is ending. If your firm forbids holding over the weekend, that is a rule you must manage yourself.
- Strict stop distances: Some prop feeds enforce a large minimum distance between price and the stop. GoldenShot checks every known constraint before sending a stop change (trading session, stop and freeze distance, tick size, broker preflight) and defers the trailing step until the distance allows it, noting that in the log. Should the server still reject a request, nothing is lost: the previous confirmed stop stays in force the whole time.
✅ Recommended First-Use Process
- Keep the defaults for the first run.
- Decide your sizing consciously: Risk Per Trade with a percentage you understand, or a fixed lot. Read the sizing line in the Experts log after the first signal.
- Back-test the exact broker symbol with real ticks from 2025 to today. Look at maximal equity drawdown and the losing trades, not only net profit.
- Run on demo and compare spread, number of entries, and execution with the back-test.
- Change one setting at a time and save a fresh set file.
- Keep Algo Trading, the internet connection, and the terminal running whenever a GoldenShot position is open.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is GoldenShot not opening trades?
Look at the dashboard header first; the bracketed status names the reason. The most common ones: it is Friday (off by default), the time is outside a window, a news pause is active, the seven-minute cooldown is running, a position is already open, spread is above the limit, or a daily protection rule has halted the day. Also remember that a signal can be declined by the pre-entry validation; the Experts log records those decisions. GoldenShot is selective by design, and stretches of quiet are normal.
Why did my trade close before reaching the stop loss?
Either the trailing stop was hit after the trade had been in profit, or Strategy 1's rapid-failure protection tightened the stop to a small controlled loss. Both are broker-side stop modifications and appear in the log with their reason. Strategy 2 never tightens early.
The card says TP at one price but my broker shows a different take profit. Which is right?
Both. The card and the orange line show the trailing-start Profit Target, where protection begins. The broker's separate hard take profit is 40 pips for Strategy 1 and 50 pips for Strategy 2. Whichever exit is reached first closes the trade.
I set 1% but the EA traded 0.01 lot and the log mentions a higher percentage. Why?
1% of your account was less than the broker's minimum lot could risk, and Use Broker Minimum Lot is on. The log tells you the real risk of that minimum lot. Set the option to false to skip such trades instead.
Does the back-test avoid news the same way the live EA does?
Mostly. The Monday-Thursday windows have two gaps around the New York data-release slot (14:20-14:35 and 15:20-15:45 server time, which cover the 8:30 New York release in both daylight-saving alignments), and those gaps apply in the tester exactly as live, together with the Friday, holiday, and calendar rules. What the tester cannot do is run the News Filter: it has no economic calendar and no internet access, and in Visual mode the dashboard shows News Filter: N/A (tester). Live, the filter adds an hour on each side of every high-impact event, including releases outside those gaps such as FOMC, plus the USD bank holidays. The live EA is therefore slightly more selective than your back-test, never less.
What happens when Daily DD Protection triggers?
GoldenShot closes its open position at market, if there is one, and opens nothing else until the next broker day; the account-scoped halt survives a reload or terminal restart and is shared by other GoldenShot instances on that account in the same MT5 terminal. The header turns red with [HALTED (DRAWDOWN)]. The actual closing price depends on broker execution.
Can I deliberately resume after a Daily DD halt?
Waiting for the next broker day is the supported and safest path. Turning Daily DD Protection off is an explicit override, but it must be off on every GoldenShot instance that you expect to trade. The stored same-day halt is not erased and will return if protection is enabled again before the next broker day.
Does a news or time block affect the open trade?
No. Those filters stop new entries only. Trailing, breakeven, rapid-failure protection, and the broker stop loss keep working.
Can I attach the EA to M1, M5, or H1?
Yes. The chart timeframe is only the display timeframe.
Can I use a broker suffix such as XAUUSD.a, XAUUSD+, or a three-decimal gold symbol?
Yes. GoldenShot works on the attached chart symbol and calibrates its price unit to the quote precision: one pip is 0.10 in the gold price on two- and three-decimal feeds alike. Verify the distance unit printed at start-up and back-test that exact symbol before going live; three-decimal feeds are not yet performance-validated.
Can I run two instances on one account?
Yes, with two different Magic Numbers per instance. Remember that each instance can hold its own position, so total exposure doubles.
Is there any grid, martingale, or averaging inside?
No. One position, one stop, one target. Lot size never changes because of a previous loss.
What remains protected if MT5 disconnects?
The broker-side stop loss and take profit. Trailing steps, breakeven, rapid-failure protection, and the daily rules need the terminal online, which is why a VPS is recommended.
The dashboard does not appear in the Strategy Tester.
That is intentional in non-visual runs, to keep back-tests fast. Enable Visual mode to see it.
Real-tick tests felt slow in version 1.00.
Version 1.10 removes daily-state and terminal-persistence work that has no active consumer in a non-visual tester pass. The exact speed gain depends on the broker history and machine. Live trailing, entries, enabled Daily DD Protection, and visual rendering remain active; with Daily DD Protection off, the dashboard's DAILY DD measurement is intentionally session-local.
Why does the recommended test period start in 2025?
Gold does not trade the way it did in 2019, and GoldenShot was built and tuned on the market as it is now, with real ticks from 2025 to the current day. Older history is neither what the strategies were tuned on nor reliable enough on most feeds to be trusted.
Have a question this guide did not answer? Reach out through the GoldenShot product page on MQL5 Market and the developer will be glad to help.
Disclaimer: Trading leveraged products carries a high level of risk. Past performance and back-tests do not guarantee future results. Broker feeds, spreads, swaps, commissions, slippage, liquidity, and execution differ. Test on demo, use conservative sizing, and never trade money you cannot afford to lose.
