Deadweight Gold
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Alex Amuyunzu Raymond
I’m an experienced MQL5 developer and software engineer specializing in building robust, high-performance algorithmic trading systems for MetaTrader 5. My work goes beyond standard EA development — I design intelligent, scalable solutions that combine market logic, automation, and external - Version: 1.5
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Deadweight Gold — Precision XAUUSD Scalper
It doesn't chase. It waits for weight — then it drops.
Deadweight Gold is a precision sniper-scalper built exclusively for XAUUSD, engineered around a single principle: most losing trades come from entering too early, on too little confirmation, in the wrong market conditions. Deadweight Gold refuses to do that. It sits in wait through every tick of noise and only commits capital when three independent confirmation layers stack in the same direction — a structural trend read, a momentum-reversal signal, and a live volatility check. When those three align, it strikes with a fully calculated, risk-defined entry. When they don't, it does nothing, which is exactly the point.
Trend Filter. A dual EMA (50/200) framework establishes the higher-timeframe bias before any entry is considered. Buys are only permitted when the fast EMA holds above the slow EMA; sells only when the reverse is true. This single filter removes the majority of counter-trend scalping losses that plague most gold EAs.
Sniper Entry Engine. Inside a confirmed trend, Deadweight Gold hunts for a specific reversal signature: RSI(14) rotating out of the 30–45 pullback zone, combined with a Stochastic(5,3,3) crossover, combined with price action confirmation — a bullish/bearish engulfing candle or a break of the recent swing high/low. All three must agree. This is what separates a sniper entry from a guess.
Volatility and Spread Protection. Gold is notorious for spread spikes and dead, directionless ranges that chew up scalping strategies. Deadweight Gold measures ATR(14) in real time and will not fire into a low-volatility chop zone, and it independently monitors live spread, standing down completely if spread balloons past your configured ceiling — protecting you from broker-side slippage events and thin-liquidity sessions.
Session and News Discipline. Trading windows are configurable to London, New York, or both, in GMT, so the EA is only active when gold actually moves with intent. An optional news-avoidance window sits around configurable high-impact anchor times so the EA steps aside rather than getting caught in a spike.
Full Risk Control, Not Just an Entry Signal. Position sizing is either a fixed lot or automatic percentage-of-balance risk, calculated per trade off your actual stop distance — not a flat guess. Only one position is ever open at a time, there is no martingale, no grid, no recovery-lot escalation. If a trade is stopped out, the EA will not immediately re-fire on the same candle, avoiding whipsaw re-entries. A daily loss ceiling and a daily profit ceiling both exist as hard circuit breakers — hit either one and the EA stands down for the rest of the day, protecting the account from both bad days and greed.
Exit Management That Actually Protects Profit. Stops can be fixed-distance or swing-structure based with a buffer. Take-profit can be a fixed distance or a risk:reward multiple of the stop. Break-even automatically moves the stop to entry once a trade is comfortably in profit, and an optional trailing stop locks in gains in defined steps as price continues to run — so winners are given room to develop but are never left unprotected.
Full Visual Transparency. Every entry is marked directly on the chart with a directional arrow, and a live on-chart dashboard displays current trend direction, live spread, ATR reading, session status, daily P/L percentage, open position count, and current EA status at a glance — so you always know exactly what the EA is seeing and doing, in real time, without digging through the strategy tester or the terminal log. Entry alerts are pushed both as a terminal alert and as a mobile push notification the instant a trade is placed.
Deadweight Gold is built for traders who are done with over-traded, over-optimized gold EAs that fire on every minor signal and bleed the account through spread and slippage. This is a low-frequency, high-conviction tool: it will sit still for long stretches, and that is by design. When it moves, it moves with weight behind it.
