Sentalis Breakout Pro Scalper EA
- Experts
- Version: 2.0
- Updated: 7 November 2026
- Activations: 5
Sentalis Breakout Pro Scalper EA for MQL5 - v2.0 Overhaul
Gold breakout EA for XAUUSD on the 30-minute and 5-minute charts. Pending buy and sell stop orders at confirmed swing levels, a volatility filter that blocks quiet markets, a hard stop loss on every trade, trailing stop, fixed-percentage risk sizing and a live dashboard. No martingale, no grid, no averaging.
Symbol → XAUUSD , Timeframe → M30
Performance Track Record: //members/Cyberklutz777/sentalis-breakout-pro-scalper/12297009
Description
A fully automated gold system built to do one job properly: trade the break of confirmed turning points, risk a fixed percentage of the account on every trade, and stay out of dead markets.
Every position carries a hard stop loss from the moment it is placed. There is no martingale, no grid, no averaging into losers and no recovery mode. One position at a time, one decision per bar.
Two Tested Configurations
The EA ships with two working profiles, and you choose the pace you want.
The 30-minute chart is the default. It reads levels from about ten and a half hours of price, decides once every half hour, and lets an order stand for twelve hours so a level can survive the quiet spell that often comes before a real breakout. In testing over 2026 it took 188 trades with a 59% win rate, a profit factor of 1.74 and a worst equity drawdown of 7.4%.
The 5-minute chart is the faster version. It reads levels from about one and three-quarter hours of price, decides every five minutes, and expires orders after two hours. It took 979 trades over the same period, but with roughly a third of the drawdown and a thinner edge. On the same 150-dollar balance the 30-minute profile returned 142.96 dollars against the 5-minute profile’s 1,313.17 dollars, while the 5-minute curve fell 25% peak to trough against 7.4%.
That trade-off is the whole choice: more turnover with more pain, or fewer, larger, calmer trades. The 30-minute profile is the one we recommend.
Why the Logic Works
Most gold breakout systems lose in two ways. They overtrade quiet markets, and they give back what they earned.
This EA closes both doors. A high or low only counts once it is confirmed on both sides, on closed bars, so levels never repaint. Orders must sit a minimum distance from price, which stops the EA arming on top of the market. And a volatility filter compares the current range with its own recent average and refuses new entries unless volatility is actually rising.
On the exit side, the fixed stop caps what any single trade can cost, and the trailing stop does the heavy lifting. With the default settings the stop follows eighteen pips behind price once a trade is twelve pips in profit. That first adjustment alone cuts the worst case from thirty pips to six, which is why the tested drawdown was a fraction of the pre-trailing version.
How the EA Works
At the start of every bar the EA finds the most recent confirmed high and low. It places a buy stop above the high and a sell stop below the low, both at once, so either direction can be caught. Whichever fills, the other is deleted immediately; the EA is never long and short at the same time.
An order goes in only when all of these agree: the level is far enough from price, the spread is inside your limit, the market is open, volatility is rising, margin is available, and the broker’s own distance rules are met. If any of them fails, nothing is placed and the reason is written to the log.
Orders carry an expiry so stale levels never sit in the book. When one side fills, the trade is protected from its first tick.
Risk Controls
- A hard stop loss on every order; the EA cannot be configured to trade without one.
- Risk per trade set as a percentage of balance, with a separate hard cap.
- A maximum lot ceiling so sizing cannot run away as the account compounds.
- A small-account safeguard: if the broker’s minimum lot would risk far more than you intended, the EA refuses the trade and tells you the balance you would need.
- One position per chart, one decision per bar.
- The opposite order is cancelled the moment one side fills.
- Spread check before every order, and a margin check before every order.
- Margin-call and stop-out warnings by email or on screen.
Dashboard
Two live panels. The first shows balance, equity, free and used margin, floating profit, margin level, exposure, broker spread against your limit, and the trade gates: exactly which condition is holding the EA back right now, and by how much. The second shows this chart’s profit, win rate, ratio and a coloured status light.
Statistics rebuild themselves from your terminal’s history and survive detaching and re-attaching. Changing the strategy version label starts a clean record without deleting anything.
Settings
Order distance, stop loss and profit target (defaults 30, 30 and 120 pips, where one pip is ten points, or ten US cents on gold). Trailing distance and trigger (18 and 12). Volatility threshold (5% above the recent average). Maximum spread (4 pips). Order expiry in bars (24: two hours on the 5-minute chart, twelve on the 30-minute chart). Risk percentage, risk cap, lot ceiling, magic number, and the timeframe the EA works on.
Three optional modules ship switched off: an early exit that closes a trade after it gives back part of its best profit, a stagnation exit for trades that sit on the wrong side of entry, and a higher-timeframe check that only takes breakouts aligned with a larger structure. All three are off in every tested profile.
Account Size
Gold moves in steps of 0.01 lots, and one step risks about three dollars with a 30-pip stop. That sets the practical floor: about 150 dollars for a nominal 2% risk, about 300 dollars for 1%. Below those figures the minimum lot forces you to risk more than you intend, and switching from 2% to 1% changes nothing because the position is already at the floor. The dashboard safeguard reports this rather than hiding it.
Above roughly 15,000 dollars the lot ceiling begins to bind and quietly reduces risk per trade; that is a safety limit, not a target.
Backtesting
All figures quoted come from gold, with real tick data, from January to October 2026, using the shipped settings, with both dashboard panels switched off (speed only, no effect on decisions).
30-minute, 150 dollars, 2% risk: net 142.96 dollars, a 95% gain, profit factor 1.74, 188 trades, 59% winners, worst equity drawdown 7.43%, longest losing run four trades.
5-minute, 10,000 dollars, 2% risk: net 42,987.82 dollars, profit factor 1.43, worst equity drawdown 7.98%, 979 trades.
Forward Testing and Live Monitoring
A forward test of this Expert Advisor is running on a demo account via a Signals service. The signal provides independently verified monitoring data, including trade history and drawdown, which can be reviewed before purchase.
Performance Track Record: //members/Cyberklutz777/sentalis-breakout-pro-scalper/12297009
Please note that forward-testing results on a demo account are not a guarantee of future live performance.
User Guide & Input Parameter Manual: //mega.nz/file/ypYzHJAC#ML-DGbMskihBKKun3HYYmVesTe8UD0gz41mXBCj3lNM
Installation
Install so the EA appears under Expert Advisors. Open a gold chart on the 30-minute period (or the 5-minute period for the faster profile). Drag the EA on, accept the risk warning, load the matching template or shipped settings, and switch Algo Trading on. Confirm the smiley face and that gold is in Market Watch. If you run both charts, give each its own magic number and use a hedging account.
Support
Support through MQL5 messages. Include your terminal build, broker, gold’s decimal places and minimum lot, your full settings list, and the relevant lines from the Experts and Journal tabs, and the issue will be diagnosed against your actual configuration.
Risk Warning
Trading leveraged gold carries a high risk of rapid loss, and most retail accounts lose money. This is trading software, not financial advice: it implements the logic described above, it does not predict the market, and no backtest or past result guarantees anything about the future. Prove it on a demo account with your own broker before funding it live, and trade only with money you can afford to lose.
Listing
Platform: MetaTrader 5 Primary market: XAUUSD (gold) Timeframes: M30 (default profile), M5 (secondary, higher drawdown) Entry style: pending Buy Stop / Sell Stop breakouts, one position at a time Exit: server-side stop loss and take profit on every order, plus trailing stop Account currency: any (results scale, they do not change) Leverage: 1:100 or higher - see the leverage section below Account type: hedging if you intend to run both M30 and M5 on the same symbol, because on a netting account the two profiles would offset each other into a single position The EA is designed and tuned for XAUUSD. It will run on other symbols using the same rules, but the settings, backtests and support in this listing apply to XAUUSD only.
