Aurum Trend Breakout
- Experts
- Version: 1.10
- Updated: 7 October 2026
- Activations: 10
LAUNCH PRICE: 49 USD for the first 10 copies. The price then rises in steps as copies are sold: 99 USD (11-25), 199 USD (26-50), 499 USD (51-100), 999 USD (101-200). Final price: 2,499 USD.
Aurum Trend Breakout is a fully automated Expert Advisor for Gold (XAUUSD) on MetaTrader 5.
New from Aurum: Aurum Range Breakout - a gold Asian-range breakout EA, one trade per day, flat by 16:00 GMT.
New from Aurum: Aurum Gold Portfolio - five gold breakout engines (H4 + H1) in one EA.
User guide and set files: https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs/post/777008
It is built on one simple, testable idea: gold spends long periods trending, and the best way to catch those trends is a breakout in the direction of the trend, with a small, fixed risk on each attempt. Aurum does not try to win often. It tries to lose small and win big.
HOW IT TRADES
1. Trend: the fast EMA (20) must be above the slow EMA (200) for buys, below it for sells. Sells also require a daily downtrend (price below the D1 EMA 200).
2. Breakout: a closed H1 candle breaks the 20-bar channel in the trend direction. Signals use closed bars only.
3. Protection: a hard Stop Loss at 2.5 x ATR is placed with the order. The lot size is calculated from your risk percentage.
4. Exit: the H1 trade runs until the trend flips (EMA cross). The optional H4 swing engine uses a 60-bar channel and a 5R take profit.
At most one position per engine (two engines = at most two positions). Never a grid, martingale, averaging or recovery lot.
BACKTEST RESULTS (Strategy Tester, XAUUSD H1, real broker MT5 data, 1-minute OHLC, swaps included, 10,000 USD, 0.5% risk per trade, July 2021 - September 2026)
- Net profit: +7,059 USD (+71%)
- Profit factor: 1.66, recovery factor: 2.66, Sharpe ratio: 1.01
- Trades: 276 (203 long, 73 short), win rate 23% by design
- Average win +277.20 / average loss -50.39
- Maximum relative equity drawdown: 18.9% (February 2022)
- By year: 2021 (Jul-Dec) -16.0%, 2022 +5.3%, 2023 +17.5%, 2024 +24.3%, 2025 +43.9%, 2026 (Jan-Sep) -4.5%
Losing periods happen. With a trend-following system they are normal, and they are shown here instead of hidden. Download the free demo and run it in the Strategy Tester on your own broker's data before you buy.
SMART PANEL
- Live trend for H1, H4 and the daily bias
- The exact buy and sell breakout levels and their distance in ATR
- Each open trade in R-multiples and money
- Equity, risk per trade, daily P/L and drawdown meters
- One-click PAUSE / RESUME and CLOSE ALL buttons
ACCOUNT PROTECTION
- Risk-based position sizing (or a fixed lot)
- Daily loss limit: closes the EA's trades and pauses for the day
- Optional maximum drawdown stop
- Skips a trade when even the minimum lot would risk too much (default 5% of equity)
- Spread, free margin, broker stop level and trading session checks before every order
- No DLL, no internet connection required
RECOMMENDED SETTINGS
- Symbol: XAUUSD (any suffix, e.g. XAUUSDm, GOLD). Attach to an H1 chart. One chart is enough.
- Regular accounts: Risk per trade 0.5% (default).
- Prop-firm accounts: Risk per trade 0.15% (backtest worst drawdown 6.9% on a 100,000 USD account), and set "Daily loss limit" and "Stop new trades at drawdown" a little inside your firm's limits.
- Recommended deposit: 3,000 USD or more. On smaller accounts the broker's 0.01 minimum lot risks more than 0.5% per trade (the EA skips any trade where it would exceed 5% of equity).
- Any broker with low gold spreads; ECN/raw accounts are preferred. A VPS is recommended for 24/5 running.
MAIN INPUTS
Lot mode, risk per trade, fixed lot - trade direction (both / buy only / sell only) - channel length, EMA periods, Stop Loss in ATR, optional take profit in R - daily D1 sell filter - H4 engine on/off - optional breakeven and ATR trailing - daily loss limit, max drawdown stop, max spread - magic number, comment, panel on/off.
IMPORTANT
Trading gold carries a high level of risk. Backtest results do not guarantee future results. Use only money you can afford to lose and test on a demo account first.
After purchase, send me a private message if you have any questions about settings. I reply as soon as I can.

