TradePulse Atlas Gold H1
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Jake John Smith
I develop TradePulse Atlas, a family of Expert Advisors for MetaTrader 5. My focus is gold (XAUUSD). - Version: 1.5
- Updated: 9 November 2026
- Activations: 20
Historical test · January–October 2026
Starting balance: EUR 792.00. Ending balance: EUR 1,909.97. Net result: +EUR 1,117.97 over 1,073 simulated trades. Maximum relative equity drawdown: 43.64%. Profit factor: 1.12. Swap was included; commission and execution delay were set to zero. These are simulated results, not live returns.
TradePulse Atlas Gold H1 is a MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor for gold priced in US dollars (XAUUSD). It looks for pullbacks on the five-minute chart and uses the 15-minute and hourly charts to confirm the trend. You can follow each entry decision on the chart, including why Atlas skipped a trade.
How Atlas selects an entry
For a buy, the 20-period exponential moving average must be above the 50-period average on all three timeframes. On the 15-minute and hourly charts, the faster average must also be rising. Atlas then looks for a five-minute candle that pulls back near the faster average and closes above it, with the close higher than the open. Sell entries use the reverse conditions.
Position sizing and exits
Atlas places the initial stop below the lowest low of the last four completed five-minute candles for a buy, or above the highest high for a sell. It adds a buffer based on recent volatility and calculates the position size from the stop distance and your risk budget. It skips the entry if the minimum lot size exceeds that budget, the spread is too wide or the available margin is insufficient.
Once price moves in your favour by the original stop distance, Atlas starts trailing the stop. The trailing distance is normally 1.5 times the original stop distance, so the first adjustment can still leave the stop on the losing side of entry. Version 1.05 manages exits with the trailing stop and has no fixed take-profit target. The gallery shows the historical test of version 1.05.
Friday session close
On the first available gold tick in the final 15 minutes of the broker’s regular Friday trading session, Atlas requests closure of its own open gold position and blocks new entries for the rest of the session. Keep MetaTrader connected with algorithmic trading enabled for the trailing stop and Friday exit to operate. Holiday schedules, missing quotes or a rejected close request can leave a position open.
Settings and testing
The default risk budget is EUR 20 per trade. You can lower it and enter your round-trip commission per lot. The daily loss threshold defaults to EUR 60 and takes account of both realised trading results for the broker day and current open positions across the account. Reaching the threshold blocks new entries. Existing positions remain open, and gaps, slippage or costs can take actual losses beyond the configured amounts.
To see how Atlas behaves with your settings, select XAUUSD and the five-minute timeframe in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester. Use visual mode to follow a pullback from the signal candle through each stop adjustment.
Order placement is enabled by default. Review the inputs before attaching Atlas to a chart. It selects gold priced in US dollars even when attached to another instrument’s chart. Use one instance per account and gold symbol. On a netting account, reserve that symbol for this strategy.
