The Avocet
- Experts
- Version: 1.6
- Updated: 8 October 2026
- Activations: 10
Avocet is an expert advisor for AUDCAD, built for small accounts from 1,500 USD. It waits until price has stretched well away from its hourly average, opens a small basket, and closes it on the way back. Patient, capped, and nothing to do with gold.
Why Avocet
- Made for 1,500 – 2,000. It starts at 0.01 lot and adds one step for every 2,000 of balance. No big lots, no deposit you cannot afford.
- Waits for the stretch. AUDCAD is two commodity currencies that drift together and snap back. Avocet only opens when the move away from the average is large.
- Rolls, never piles. Never more than five legs open: when a sixth is due, the oldest leg leaves first. The size per leg is capped.
- Three layers of protection. A basket stop, a time stop, and an account emergency stop that closes everything and pauses for 72 hours.
- A different market. AUDCAD moves on its own. Next to gold robots its days do not move with theirs, so it spreads your risk instead of doubling it.
- Sensible filters. No new basket on the first Friday of the month (NFP) and none when the spread is too wide.
- Runs itself. Rebuilds its baskets after a restart and pauses when the market is closed. The panel shows each open basket with its stop and time left, the realised result, the drawdown, and why it is waiting.
- Engine values are fixed. The measured distances and exits are built in, so they cannot be broken by accident.
Tested the hard way
- MT5 Strategy Tester, 99% real ticks, January 2023 – September 2026, default settings: 2,000 grew to 2,919 (+46%), every year positive, deepest equity drawdown 8.4%. On 1,500: +61%, drawdown 10.5%.
- Re-run with every entry 1, 2, 3 and 4 minutes late: every path profitable, none hit its basket stop.
Pick your account
- 1,500 (minimum): 0.01 lot; a basket that reaches its stop costs about 19% of the balance.
- 2,000 (default): 0.01 lot; a stopped basket costs about 14%.
- 4,000 and more: the lot grows with the balance (0.02 per 4,000), the share stays about 14%.
Buy and sell baskets are separate, so in the worst case both can reach their stop.
Requirements
- MetaTrader 5, AUDCAD (any suffix), any chart timeframe. Hedging account recommended; on netting Avocet trades one position at a time.
- A VPS is recommended. No DLL, no internet calls, no external files.
Try it first in the Strategy Tester with the free demo. Our gold expert advisors Harrier and Saker are built with the same care.
A basket can go deeper on your feed than in any test; that is what the basket stop is for. Trading with leverage can cost more than you intend. Test results are not a promise of future results.
