Pitbull Gold 1.05: 2025 backtest from +425% to +603%, fewer trades, and lots 1.5x bigger on the same profile
Pitbull Gold 1.05 is out with two changes. The trade selection is improved, so it takes fewer and more selective trades. And every risk profile now puts 1.5 times more on each trade.
If you already run Pitbull Gold, the second change is the one to read before you click Update. On a 10,000 USD account, the same Balanced profile that risked about 300 USD on a trade that closes at its stop now risks about 450 USD. Nothing is broken. Your profile simply got bigger.
The rule for a calm update: same profile, bigger trade. Choose your profile before you attach the EA.
The risk ladder, 1.04 vs 1.05
The values are estimates of what one trade costs when it closes at its stop.
| Profile | 1.04 | 1.05 | One trade at its stop, 10,000 USD account (1.05) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conservative | 1% | 1.5% | about 150 USD |
| Moderate | 2% | 3% | about 300 USD |
| Balanced (default) | 3% | 4.5% | about 450 USD |
| Aggressive | 4% | 6% | about 600 USD |
| Maximum | 5% | 7.5% | about 750 USD |
The trade selection goes with it: in the continuous backtest since January 2021, 1.05 averaged 9 trades a month, against 14 in 1.04. Days without a trade are normal.
What the backtests show on Balanced
All numbers come from backtests in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, "Every tick based on real ticks" on Vantage data (XAUUSD+), with real spread and commission and 1:500 leverage. Each year restarts at 10,000 USD. The drawdown is the equity drawdown, measured tick by tick.
| Balanced | 1.04 | 1.05 |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 backtest | +425%, drawdown 14% | +603%, drawdown 15% |
| 2026 backtest, to 31 October | +831%, drawdown 17% | +1,423%, drawdown 15% |
And every year of 1.05 on Balanced, the weak ones included:
| Year | Backtest return | Largest drawdown of the year |
|---|---|---|
| 2026, to 31 October | +1,423% | 15% |
| 2025 | +603% | 15% |
| 2024 | +38% | 52% |
| 2023 | +50% | 38% |
| 2022 | −30% | 54% |
| 2021 | +6% | 52% |
In the older years, 2021 to 2024, the 1.04 backtests earned more and fell less. Version 1.05 was built for today's market: its gain is in 2025 and 2026, the years that weigh most in our decisions.
In the continuous backtest from January 2021, without restarting each year, the largest drawdown was 52%, in 2021, and 54% with 2022 tested on its own. Size your account by the larger one. The worst day in the backtests cost 37% of the balance, on a US payroll day in July 2024; with the news pause on, the worst day was 17.5%, on a different date. In 2025, the profiles ranged from +95% with a 5% drawdown on Conservative to +2,186% with a 24% drawdown on Maximum.
The numbers grow fast because the lot follows the balance: every gain makes the next trade bigger. In the 2025 and 2026 backtests, that compounding met a strong rally in gold.
Two ways to choose your profile after updating
- By the size of each trade. To stay close to the risk per trade you had, go down one profile. Balanced in 1.04 risked about 3%, exactly Moderate in 1.05. Conservative is already the lowest step: about 1.5% in 1.05.
- By the account drawdown. In the 2025 backtests, Balanced in 1.05 fell about as much as in 1.04 (15% against 14%) and made +603% against +425%. The worst cases grew, though: in the backtests, the worst day went from 25% to 37% of the balance, the worst trade from 11.4% to 17.0%, and the largest drawdown of a single year from 48% to 54%. For sizing, the reference is that largest drawdown, 54%.
Your saved settings still apply after the update: none changed its name or its default value. What changes is what your saved profile means. If you use a lot cap or a daily loss limit with the automatic lot, check both: a cap set for 1.04 can hold 1.05 below what the profile asks for, and a daily limit smaller than one trade at its stop now acts before the stop.
The update checklist, 6 steps
- Choose your profile first, by one of the two criteria above. Small account or first time: start on Conservative.
- Pick the moment. Version 1.05 takes over an open 1.04 trade and manages it to the end, but the cleanest moment is with no trade open, over the weekend. With the default settings, no trade in the backtests was held over a weekend.
- Update in MT5: Toolbox, Market tab, purchased products, Update on Pitbull Gold.
- Reload the EA. Replacing the file is not enough: 1.05 only runs after you restart MT5 or drag Pitbull Gold onto the gold chart again. Check the profile, the lot cap and the daily limit in the settings window.
- Check the panel: version 1.05, Algo, Hedging and Gold ticked, and the profile you chose. The MT5 journal also shows the running version.
- On the MQL5 VPS, migrate again after updating: according to the MT5 help, the VPS only receives what goes in the migration.
If 1.04 left a pending order on the server, 1.05 replaces it with a new one at its own lot size. With the market closed, the order comes back when it reopens.
Prop firms with a fixed lot
With a fixed lot, the profile is not part of the calculation, so the new risk ladder does not change your lot. Only the selection changes, with fewer trades. The lot table stays the same, from 0.03 on 5,000 USD to 1.20 on 200,000 USD, and the worst backtest day barely moved: about 66 USD per 0.01 lot, with gold near 4,070 USD an ounce. Details in the fixed-lot table for prop firms.
What does not change: stop and target on the broker's server from the first second, one entry per trade, no grid and no martingale, and 1:100 leverage is enough on any profile. Every setting is explained in the manual, every setting, one by one.
The full post is on our site: the full post, with the charts, the profile guide and the FAQ.
New to Pitbull Gold? Download the free demo from Pitbull Gold on the Market and run the 2025 and 2026 backtests with real ticks on your own broker, trade by trade. Already running it? Choose your profile, update with the market closed and check the panel.
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