Quintara Gold - Recommended Set Files and User Guide

Quintara Gold - Set Files and Setup Guide

Standard v4.27 | Updated 10 October 2026

Start here if you are setting up Quintara Gold for the first time. You need MetaTrader 5, a compatible hedging account and one chart of your broker's Gold symbol on M15.

Quintara Gold on MQL5 Market | Live monitoring signal

The monitoring profile uses 2% base Auto Risk, with Summit targeting 4% per entry. This is not a recommended setting for every account. Settings may change and results can differ between accounts. Buying the EA and subscribing to a copying signal are separate services.

1. Choose your set file

Download and extract Quintara_Gold_v4.27_Guide_and_5_Setfiles.zip from this post. It contains the PDF guide and five presets. A .set file saves input settings; it does not install the EA.

File names start with Quintara_v4.27_15_10_ and end with the sizing profile and PropOFF.set or PropON.set. The 2% file is in the Higher_Risk_Optional folder. Prop ON files are in Prop_ON_Templates.

2. Install in five steps

1. Install the purchased or rented Quintara Gold v4.27 through MT5 Market. The free Market demo works in Strategy Tester, not on an online chart.
2. Open your broker's XAUUSD / Gold chart and select M15. Use a compatible hedging account.
3. Attach one EA instance. In Inputs > Load, browse to your chosen .set file.
4. Review sizing, Prop ON/OFF, symbol and every input. For Prop ON, enter the original account capital before accepting.
5. Test on a broker-matched demo first. Allow algorithmic trading in both the EA properties and MT5. Check the dashboard and Experts log for successful initialization.

No DLL, external indicator or WebRequest setup is required. Keep MT5 connected and the computer or VPS clock synchronized. Do not run duplicate Quintara instances on the same account.

3. Understand the risk before trading

Quintara has five engines: Aurora, Vertex, Summit, Impulse and Shadow. Each evaluates its own setups and manages its own entries and exits. Several engines can trade Gold at the same time.

Fixed lots: the base engines request 0.01 lot in the supplied fixed presets; Summit requests 0.02. The money at risk changes with the Stop Loss distance and your broker's contract specifications. Fixed lots do not mean fixed money risk.

Auto Risk: volume is calculated from the account balance and planned initial Stop Loss. At a 1% base setting, Summit targets 2%. At a 2% base setting, Summit targets 4%. These are per-entry sizing targets, not daily or account-wide loss limits.

Simple example: on a USD 1,000 balance, 2% means a USD 20 base-entry target and USD 40 for Summit. One entry from each of the five engines would total USD 120 of planned initial price risk, not USD 100. This example is not a maximum: five engines does not mean a strict five-trade limit.

Risk cap in account currency: all supplied files set this to 0.00 (off). In Auto Risk mode, a positive value limits the normal planned per-trade sizing budget in the account's currency. It is not an account stop, daily-loss guard or promise that a loss cannot exceed that amount.

Minimum-lot fallback is ON. If the calculated Auto Risk volume is too small, the fallback can exceed the percentage target and the normal currency budget. Even 0.01 lot may be too large for a small account. Costs, gaps and slippage can increase actual losses.

4. Settings shared by all five files

The spread value is in Gold price units, not a universal pip count. It is an entry-placement check, not a guarantee of the future fill price. Real-account initialization is allowed in these files, but that does not switch on MT5 Algo Trading.

5. How the news filter works

On an online demo or live account, Quintara reads the native MT5 economic calendar and selects USD high-impact events, usually shown in red. Medium-impact orange events are not included. Scheduled news protection cannot predict unscheduled announcements.

The preset uses a 15-minute before / 10-minute after window, plus 2 minutes of early cleanup. New entries pause and the EA requests cancellation of its pending orders 17 minutes before the event.

Example: an event at 15:30 broker-server time

Overlapping windows merge. High-impact events without a reliable exact time can lead to a conservative all-day pause. The broker must support specified-time pending-order expiry for news-protected placement.

What about open trades? The news filter does not automatically close already-filled positions. They remain under their strategy's Stop Loss, target and exit management. This news cleanup targets Quintara-owned pending orders, not manual trades or other EAs.

What happens after news? The EA reassesses the setup. It does not blindly restore old tickets. Calendar, session, cleanup confirmation, spread, margin and strategy checks must pass first. The end of a blackout does not promise an immediate trade.

If news data is unavailable

A failed calendar refresh or uncertain clock blocks new entries. Otherwise, data more than five minutes old is treated as stale. Refreshes are attempted every minute, known news windows are retained and owned pending-order cleanup is requested.

In v4.27, PAUSED / NEWS DATA CHECK with Await fresh data means the EA cannot yet rely on its news data or clock. It does not mean you must wait until the date of the next stored news event.

Check the internet connection, Windows clock and Experts/Journal messages. Useful entries include QNEWS|event=calendar_refreshed and QNEWS|event=state. Do not disable protection or delete saved state just to force entries.

Calendar times use broker-server time, not your computer's local time. See the MetaQuotes calendar documentation.

6. Read the v4.27 dashboard

v4.27 clarifies dashboard messages and version labels. Trading logic, risk settings and news protection are unchanged from standard v4.26. The built-in stale-swing filter introduced in v4.26 remains in place; it has no separate input.

Session eligible means the session filter may allow entries after that time. News, spread, margin and other checks can still keep trading paused. A session message taking display priority does not turn off the news filter.

Choose 100%, 75% or 50% dashboard size, collapse the panel or hide it. These are display-only controls. Account balance, equity and floating P&L can include other trading activity; engine counts show Quintara's own activity.

7. Sessions, holidays and retries

Session protection: entries pause and owned pending cleanup is requested 15 minutes before a broker-reported trading break. Entry eligibility resumes 5 minutes after reopening, subject to the other checks. Open positions are not automatically liquidated and remain exposed to gaps.

Holidays: the EA reads the symbol's weekly broker session schedule. It does not automatically identify every US holiday or exceptional early close. Check your broker's notices. The optional dated early-close input is blank in these presets; enter only confirmed broker-server times.

Abnormal-loss retry protection: a Stop Out or price loss exceeding the planned Stop Loss risk by the 10% tolerance can block the same engine, direction and pivot setup from retrying. Recorded costs are accounted for in the classification. This is not a 10% account-loss limit. Ordinary eligible retries can still occur.

Buy and sell are allowed, but the EA does not have to place both at once. A direction may lack an eligible setup or fail a filter. Do not repeatedly reattach the EA or erase history to make an order appear.

8. Optional prop-firm daily guard

This guide covers standard v4.27 with a Prague-midnight reset. It is not the separate FXIFY/New York-clock version. A preset cannot change this build's reset timezone.

1. Confirm that the guard's calculation and reset time match your account's rules. It does not guarantee prop-firm compliance.
2. Load a Prop ON template. Set InpPropFirmInitialCapital to the original funded amount, not today's balance. For an originally USD 25,000 account, enter 25000.
3. Review the daily percentage. These templates use 4.00%; the input cannot exceed 4%. The liquidation reserve defaults to 0.00.
4. Check initialization and account-history reconciliation on demo before considering live use.

Do not leave capital at 0.00 on an online account. The supplied Prop ON files deliberately leave it unset because every account is different. In Strategy Tester only, zero can infer the initial test deposit.

The calculation, in plain language

The daily allowance is a percentage of the original capital. The guard subtracts that allowance from the balance at Prague midnight to calculate an equity floor. Floating losses count because the trigger checks equity. Intraday profits can offset losses.

When triggered, the guard requests account-wide liquidation and pauses entries. The pause survives a restart. Reset is at 00:00 Prague time, including daylight saving. New-day trading also requires the account to be flat and clock/history checks to pass.

The optional reserve brings the trigger forward by an amount in account currency. It cannot guarantee protection against every gap or execution delay.

Account-history limitation: this standard guard expects one initial funding entry matching original capital, without later deposits or withdrawals. Credit, other cash flows, missing history or unreconciled figures can block trading. Contact support rather than resetting state to bypass the check.

Prop OFF: the account-wide daily guard and its reset are inactive. News, session and abnormal-loss retry protection remain enabled. A trigger is not a guaranteed maximum loss: actual closure can occur beyond it.

9. Backtest and forward-test first

1. In Strategy Tester, select v4.27, your broker's Gold symbol and M15. Load the matching preset.
2. Set explicit dates, starting balance and leverage. Use Every tick based on real ticks where the broker supplies it.
3. Include realistic costs and execution delay. A 30 ms test setting is a scenario, not a guarantee of live execution speed.
4. Match the historical broker clock. Supplied presets use winter UTC+2, summer UTC+3 and US daylight-saving rules; change them if your data differs.
5. Check Journal for completion, runtime errors, tick-data gaps and news coverage. Compare equity drawdown and the trade history, not just profit.

If real ticks are missing, generated Every tick tests using complete M1 history can support research, but they are not equivalent evidence for short-duration scalping. Even real ticks do not reproduce every live fill, cancellation race or slippage event.

Tester news archive: the checked v4.27 release embeds 8,297 historical USD high-impact events. Declared UTC coverage is 27 December 2009 to 10 October 2026, end exclusive. Buffers reduce the usable edges. Confirm actual converted coverage in QNEWS|event=tester_calendar_loaded before choosing dates.

The online calendar is unavailable in Strategy Tester, so the EA uses this archive. No CSV import is needed. An out-of-coverage run can fail initialization or stop with tester_news_coverage_lost. Do not treat a partial run as complete. Later test dates require an updated archive build. This is not an EA license expiry or a live-calendar cutoff.

Historical classifications are retrospective. For the platform's explanation, see calendar data in Strategy Tester.

Forward test: observe a real scheduled news window, session reopening, reconnect and any Prop ON reset on a broker-matched demo. Save the Experts and Journal logs.

10. Updating and getting help

Save your current inputs first. Upgrade when Quintara has no open positions or pending orders. Install the Market update, load your intended settings and verify them again. Loading a 1% preset replaces a previous 2% setting. Do not run old and new instances together.

Turning Algo Trading off does not remove existing broker orders. Do not remove the managing EA while it is responsible for open positions. If you cannot reach a flat state safely, ask for assistance before updating.

For help, use MQL5 private messaging or the product comments. Include the EA version, preset, broker/server, symbol, server timestamp and relevant Experts/Journal messages. Never send passwords or login credentials.

Gold trading involves substantial risk. Stop Loss orders and protection features cannot prevent every loss or guarantee exit prices. Backtests and past performance do not guarantee future results.

To God be the Glory.