Lumen Golden Breakout

Lumen — Gold Structure-Breakout EA

Lumen does one thing and does it cleanly: it trades the breakout of a real price structure on Gold. When price closes beyond the highest high or lowest low of the last 30 bars, in the direction of the EMA200 trend, Lumen places a single pending order and manages it with an ATR-based stop that moves to breakeven and then trails behind price. One position at a time — no grid, no martingale, no averaging down.

The design goal was the lowest possible drawdown, not the steepest curve. Long-only by default (gold's long-term upward bias makes the short side the weaker one), fixed-lot sizing, and a volatility "corridor" filter that stands aside in dead or chaotic markets.

Key features

• Single position — never more than one trade open at a time.
• No grid, no martingale, no averaging.
• Structure-breakout entry: N-bar high/low with an EMA200 trend filter.
• ATR exit chain: hard stop -> breakeven -> ATR trailing.
• Volatility-corridor filter skips dead and over-extended regimes.
• Optional daily-loss halt and spread guard.
• Fixed lot by default (low, stable drawdown); optional percent-risk sizing.

Recommended

• Symbol: XAUUSD (Gold). Timeframe: H1.
• A low-spread / ECN broker and a VPS for uninterrupted operation.
• The default settings are the tested configuration — start there.

Backtest (XAUUSD H1, fixed 0.10 lot, ~4.5 years of history)

• Profit factor: 1.66
• Recovery factor: 8.05
• Maximum equity drawdown: 7.5%
• Win rate: 39%
• Total trades: 655

What to expect
This is a breakout system. It waits, takes relatively few trades, and accepts a lower win rate in exchange for winners that are larger than losers. Patience is part of the method: most of the time the correct action is to do nothing. Past performance does not guarantee future results; always test on a demo account first.