Aureus Gold Averaging Grid
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- Version: 1.0
- Activations: 5
AUREUS GOLD — Compounding Averaging Grid for XAUUSD
AUREUS GOLD is an aggressive, ruin-accepted averaging grid for gold (XAUUSD) on the M5 timeframe. It seeds a buy cycle ONLY on a deep dip — when price is at least about 6% below its three-week high — averages with SAME-SIZE legs spaced by ATR (this is NOT a lot-multiplying martingale), and closes the whole basket on a thin take-profit per total lot. Lot size scales with balance, so profits compound.
This is a tool, not investment advice. An averaging grid without a hard stop-loss can suffer very large drawdowns and, in an extreme one-directional collapse, the loss of the account. Please read the full risk disclosure below and use risk capital only.
WHY IT WORKS ACROSS BROKERS
Most gold grids are tuned to a single broker's price feed and blow up elsewhere. AUREUS only opens a basket after a deep, confirmed dip from a multi-week high, so the basket's average price starts low and it recovers on virtually any feed instead of digging into a one-way decline. It was verified profitable in all 12 calendar years on two very different price feeds.
HOW IT TRADES
1) Entry — deep-dip only
A buy cycle is seeded only when price is at least EntryExtremePct% (default 6%) below its three-week high, confirmed by an RSI filter, during selected broker hours, and only when flat. Shallow pullbacks are ignored on purpose.
2) Averaging — same-size legs (NOT martingale)
If price moves further against the basket, AUREUS adds up to 6 SAME-SIZE legs spaced by ATR. There is no lot multiplier, so exposure grows linearly and predictably — it does not snowball like a martingale.
3) Exit — thin basket take-profit
The whole basket is closed when floating profit reaches total_lots x TPperLotUSD. This high-rotation target keeps baskets short-lived in normal conditions.
4) Safety exits
- Time-gated grid-break exit: a basket that runs far past the full grid AND stays stuck for weeks is cut.
- Post-spike cooldown: the EA stands aside after a sharp up-spike, since a crash often follows a blow-off.
- Max basket hold: a basket stuck beyond a set number of days is force-closed.
BACKTEST (MT5 Strategy Tester, M5, $10,000, 1:500, every-tick model, compounding)
- Exness XAUUSDm : 12 years (2014-2026), x90, Profit Factor 3.75, equity drawdown ~65%
- MetaQuotes-Demo : 12 years (2014-2026), x139, Profit Factor 6.49, equity drawdown ~55%
- Profitable in all 12 calendar years on both feeds, with no account blow-up.
ROBUSTNESS (not curve-fit to one regime)
- Split-sample on Exness: in-sample 2014-2020 PF 3.4 (positive); out-of-sample 2020-2026 PF 3.7 (positive). Both halves profitable.
- Honest note: most of the headline multiple comes from the 2020+ gold bull market; the 2014-2020 half returns roughly +30% over six years. Expect long, flat stretches.
These are HISTORICAL backtests, not a live track record and not a promise of future profit.
RISK — READ THIS
- There is NO hard stop-loss by default. The real risk is the floating (equity) drawdown, which reached about 55-65% in the backtest. A historic, sustained, one-directional gold collapse can still cause a large or total loss.
- This is a grid / averaging system. Use ONLY risk capital you can afford to lose.
RECOMMENDED SETUP
- Symbol: XAUUSD / GOLD / XAUUSDm, M5, hedging account, leverage 1:500
- From about $670, or a cent account for small balances; VPS recommended
- Broker-agnostic: uses the chart symbol and dynamic contract specifications; no hardcoded symbol names
- Do NOT set EntryExtremePct below 6 (a 5% setting blew up in tests). Recommended range 6-7.
KEY INPUTS
- LotPer1k: lot per $1,000 of balance (compounding)
- EntryHighLookback: recent-high lookback (default three weeks of M5 bars)
- EntryExtremePct: seed only when this % below the three-week high (do not go below 6)
- MaxGrid / LotMult: number of same-size legs / lot multiplier (1.0 = no martingale)
- GridATRmult / GridATRperiod: ATR spacing of grid legs
- TPperLotUSD: thin basket take-profit per total lot
- AllowSell: buy-only by default (gold uptrend bias)
- UseSpikeCooldown / SpikePctUp / SpikeCooldownHrs: post-spike crash avoidance
- UseGridBreakExit and related: time-gated grid-break exit
- MaxBasketHoldDays: force-close a basket stuck this long
- UseEquityHalt: optional account circuit breaker (off by default)
IMPORTANT RISK DISCLOSURE
This product is a software tool for automated order execution. It is not investment advice and does not manage your funds. Averaging grids without a hard stop-loss can lose the entire account in adverse conditions. No trading system can guarantee profit, and past results — including backtests — do not guarantee future performance. Always test on a demo account first, start with conservative risk, and trade only with money you can afford to lose.
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