RigelXAU MT5
- Experts
- Version: 1.30
- Activations: 5
RigelXAU MT5 — Multi-strategy breakout system for Gold
RigelXAU trades breakouts on gold (XAUUSD) with eight independent sub-strategies running inside one Expert Advisor. Each sub-strategy watches its own levels, enters with pending stop orders and manages its own trades. Because they work on different horizons and rarely lose at the same time, the combined equity curve is smoother than any single strategy.
No grid. No martingale. No averaging down. Every trade carries a stop-loss from the moment it opens.
HOW IT WORKS
- Breakouts of key support and resistance levels, in both directions.
- Eight sub-strategies (B1 to B8) with different time horizons, level types and trade management.
- Every distance (entry, stop, target, trailing) is set as a percentage of the gold price, so the rules behave the same whether gold trades at 1,800 or 4,000.
- Break-even and trailing protection on every trade; early exit when a breakout fails on some sub-strategies.
- Adaptive set: the EA runs as many sub-strategies as your capital and chosen risk allow, and adds the others as the account grows.
- Trading frequency on gold: about 3 trades per week on a small account, rising to about 4–5 trades per day when all eight sub-strategies run (2024–2026 backtest).
RISK CONTROL
- Risk budget sizing: you choose the largest drawdown you accept (default 30 %). The EA sizes each sub-strategy from its worst historical drawdown so the total stays inside your budget. The calculation is deliberately prudent: in the 2024–2026 backtest, a 30 % budget produced a maximum drawdown of about 8 %.
- Alternative sizing: fixed volume, or risk per trade (% of capital at the stop).
- Optional daily loss cap that closes everything and pauses until the next day.
- Optional cap on the number of trades open in the same direction.
- News pause around US payrolls (on by default), CPI and Fed decisions, using the MetaTrader economic calendar. Nothing to configure, no URL to add.
- Optional Friday close so nothing is held over the weekend.
- Spread cap, margin check, broker stop and freeze levels respected, no orders while the market is closed.
DEVELOPED ON REAL TICKS
The settings were optimised on 2021–2024 and kept only if they also held on 2025–2026, a period they had never seen. All results were then checked in the Strategy Tester with "Every tick based on real ticks", commissions included. Every year from 2024 to 2026 was profitable in this test. Past results do not guarantee future results.
PROP FIRM FRIENDLY
Daily loss cap, same-direction cap, weekend close, custom order comment and two ready-made prop firm set files: PropFirm (safest) and PropFirm_Fast (faster). Both were also backtested with a gold spread of at least 50 points, as quoted by some prop firms: none of 136 simulated challenges (2024-2026) failed.
REQUIREMENTS
- Symbol: XAUUSD / GOLD (any suffix). Timeframe: H1 - attach RigelXAU to a gold H1 chart (all tests were run on H1).
- Account type: hedging.
- Minimum deposit: 600 USD with the default settings; about 8,000 USD runs all eight sub-strategies at a 30 % risk budget.
- A VPS is strongly recommended: the EA must run 24 hours a day, 5 days a week, to place and manage its orders. Low-spread / ECN gold pricing is recommended.
QUICK START
1. Attach RigelXAU to a gold H1 chart.
2. Keep "Sub-strategies in use = Adaptive" and "Position sizing = Risk budget".
3. Choose your risk budget (10–15 % cautious, 20–30 % normal).
4. Check the panel on the chart: sizing mode, active sub-strategies, next news pause.
MAIN INPUTS
- Sub-strategies in use: 2 to 8, Adaptive, or Custom (B1–B8 switches).
- Position sizing: Risk budget, Risk per trade, or Fixed volume.
- Risk budget %, equal risk split, high-water sizing, daily loss cap, max trades in the same direction.
- News pause: payrolls, CPI, Fed, minutes before and after, flatten trades and cancel orders.
- Spread cap, Friday close hour, magic base, order comment, panel.
BACKTESTING
Use XAUUSD with "Every tick based on real ticks". The economic calendar is not available in the Strategy Tester, so the EA uses its built-in release dates: set the two server GMT offset inputs to your broker's values (usually 2 in winter and 3 in summer).
User manual (PDF) and full backtest reports:
A full user manual (PDF) and the set files are sent after purchase: just send me a private message. Please test on a demo account before trading live.
Risk warning: trading gold and leveraged products involves substantial risk of loss. Backtest results are not a guarantee of future performance.
