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Sotirios Karkalakos
Don't trust EA screenshots. Including mine.
Every number I post about Gold Channel Rider comes from the MT5 Strategy Tester, and you can check it yourself in about three minutes with the free demo:
1. Symbol XAUUSD, period H1, model "1 minute OHLC" or "Every tick"
2. At least five years, for example 2020 to today. A trend follower judged on three months tells you almost nothing.
3. Deposit 10,000 USD or more, or load the "Small account" setfile for a smaller deposit.
What you should see (2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk): 13 of 14 years profitable. Some years are big (+29% in 2025, +24% in 2020), some are nearly flat (+1% in 2018), and 2022 was -5%. Flat stretches are part of trend following, and I'd rather show them than hide them.
If your result looks very different, write in the Comments tab and I will help you find why (usually the symbol name, the period or the deposit).
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Every number I post about Gold Channel Rider comes from the MT5 Strategy Tester, and you can check it yourself in about three minutes with the free demo:
1. Symbol XAUUSD, period H1, model "1 minute OHLC" or "Every tick"
2. At least five years, for example 2020 to today. A trend follower judged on three months tells you almost nothing.
3. Deposit 10,000 USD or more, or load the "Small account" setfile for a smaller deposit.
What you should see (2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk): 13 of 14 years profitable. Some years are big (+29% in 2025, +24% in 2020), some are nearly flat (+1% in 2018), and 2022 was -5%. Flat stretches are part of trend following, and I'd rather show them than hide them.
If your result looks very different, write in the Comments tab and I will help you find why (usually the symbol name, the period or the deposit).
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Passing a prop firm challenge is not about the good weeks. It is about surviving the bad one.
What Gold Channel Rider does to protect the account:
- Hard stop loss on every trade, sent with the order. Nothing is ever open without one.
- Flat for the weekend: no new orders late on Friday, everything closed before the market shuts. No Monday gap.
- Daily loss limit: reach it and the EA closes everything and pauses until the next day.
- Maximum drawdown stop, measured from peak equity: reach it and trading stops.
- No grid, no martingale, no averaging down.
There is a ready-made Prop firm setfile in the Comments tab of the product page: 0.25% risk per trade, 3% daily loss limit, 6% maximum drawdown. Load it, check your firm's own limits, and adjust if they are stricter.
Test it in the Strategy Tester first with the free demo:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
What Gold Channel Rider does to protect the account:
- Hard stop loss on every trade, sent with the order. Nothing is ever open without one.
- Flat for the weekend: no new orders late on Friday, everything closed before the market shuts. No Monday gap.
- Daily loss limit: reach it and the EA closes everything and pauses until the next day.
- Maximum drawdown stop, measured from peak equity: reach it and trading stops.
- No grid, no martingale, no averaging down.
There is a ready-made Prop firm setfile in the Comments tab of the product page: 0.25% risk per trade, 3% daily loss limit, 6% maximum drawdown. Load it, check your firm's own limits, and adjust if they are stricter.
Test it in the Strategy Tester first with the free demo:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
One input decides how aggressive Gold Channel Rider is: risk per trade.
Every trade is sized from its own stop loss, so "0.5% risk" means that if the stop is hit you lose 0.5% of the account. Not more.
Same rules, same 13.7 years of XAUUSD (MT5 Strategy Tester, 10,000 USD start):
0.25% risk -> 19,922 USD | 5.2% a year | max drawdown 8.5%
0.5% risk (default) -> 39,783 USD | 10.6% a year | max drawdown 9.3%
1% risk -> 164,808 USD | 22.7% a year | max drawdown 18.0%
The honest part: growth and drawdown rise together. There is no setting that gives you 1% returns with 0.25% pain. My advice is to start at 0.5% or lower.
One more honest detail: gold's stops are wide right now, so the minimum lot of 0.01 already risks about 75-150 USD per trade. For a true 0.5% plan on roughly 30,000 USD. Smaller account? Use the "Small account" setfile from the Comments tab.
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Every trade is sized from its own stop loss, so "0.5% risk" means that if the stop is hit you lose 0.5% of the account. Not more.
Same rules, same 13.7 years of XAUUSD (MT5 Strategy Tester, 10,000 USD start):
0.25% risk -> 19,922 USD | 5.2% a year | max drawdown 8.5%
0.5% risk (default) -> 39,783 USD | 10.6% a year | max drawdown 9.3%
1% risk -> 164,808 USD | 22.7% a year | max drawdown 18.0%
The honest part: growth and drawdown rise together. There is no setting that gives you 1% returns with 0.25% pain. My advice is to start at 0.5% or lower.
One more honest detail: gold's stops are wide right now, so the minimum lot of 0.01 already risks about 75-150 USD per trade. For a true 0.5% plan on roughly 30,000 USD. Smaller account? Use the "Small account" setfile from the Comments tab.
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
A 92% win rate can still empty your account.
Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.
156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.
Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.
Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.
Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.
156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.
Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.
Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.
Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
A 92% win rate can still empty your account.
Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.
156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.
Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.
Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.
Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.
156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.
Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.
Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.
Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
A 92% win rate can still empty your account.
Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.
156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.
Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.
Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.
Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.
156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.
Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.
Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.
Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
One rule made my gold EA better. And I chose it before I looked at the result.
Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.
Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035
How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.
Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.
Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.
Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035
How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.
Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.
Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
One rule made my gold EA better. And I chose it before I looked at the result.
Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.
Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035
How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.
Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.
Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.
Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035
How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.
Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.
Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
One rule made my gold EA better. And I chose it before I looked at the result.
Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.
Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035
How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.
Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.
Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.
Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035
How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.
Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.
Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Most gold EAs you see here show a 95% win rate and a perfectly straight equity line. Look closer and you will usually find a grid, a martingale, or no stop loss at all. Those curves are smooth right up to the day the account is gone.
Gold Channel Rider does the opposite.
- 4 breakout strategies on XAUUSD (5, 10 and 20-day channels)
- A hard stop loss on EVERY trade, sized by ATR
- No grid. No martingale. No averaging down. Never a bigger lot after a loss
- A 120-day trend filter: it only trades in the direction of gold's bigger move
- Friday close, spread and slippage guards, ready-made prop firm settings
MT5 Strategy Tester, Jan 2013 - Sep 2026, default settings, 0.5% risk per trade:
10,000 -> 39,783 USD
10.6% a year | max drawdown 9.3% | profit factor 1.75 | 1,605 trades
13 of 14 years profitable
The win rate is 50.7%, and I show it on purpose. A trend follower wins by letting winners run and cutting losers short, not by hiding losses.
Don't take my word for it. Download the free demo, run it in your own Strategy Tester with your own broker's data, and compare the result with the chart above. 4 setfiles (Default, Conservative, Small account, Prop firm) are in the Comments tab.
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Gold Channel Rider does the opposite.
- 4 breakout strategies on XAUUSD (5, 10 and 20-day channels)
- A hard stop loss on EVERY trade, sized by ATR
- No grid. No martingale. No averaging down. Never a bigger lot after a loss
- A 120-day trend filter: it only trades in the direction of gold's bigger move
- Friday close, spread and slippage guards, ready-made prop firm settings
MT5 Strategy Tester, Jan 2013 - Sep 2026, default settings, 0.5% risk per trade:
10,000 -> 39,783 USD
10.6% a year | max drawdown 9.3% | profit factor 1.75 | 1,605 trades
13 of 14 years profitable
The win rate is 50.7%, and I show it on purpose. A trend follower wins by letting winners run and cutting losers short, not by hiding losses.
Don't take my word for it. Download the free demo, run it in your own Strategy Tester with your own broker's data, and compare the result with the chart above. 4 setfiles (Default, Conservative, Small account, Prop firm) are in the Comments tab.
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647
Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Post publicado I built three gold grid EAs and measured them honestly
Every week someone posts a gold EA with a win rate above 95% and an equity curve that goes up like a staircase. I wanted to know whether that is a strategy or an accounting trick, so over the last month I built three grid systems for XAUUSD and tested each one until it told me the truth...
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Sotirios Karkalakos
Ha publicado el producto
En la pestaña Comentarios hay cuatro archivos set listos para usar: Default, Conservative, Small account (menos de 15.000 USD) y Prop firm, junto con los ajustes exactos para probar la demo gratuita. Gold Channel Rider es un Expert Advisor totalmente automático para XAUUSD , basado en una de las ideas más antiguas del trading sistemático que sigue funcionando en el oro: cuando el precio rompe un rango de varios días, suele seguir en esa dirección. Ejecuta cuatro estrategias de ruptura
Sotirios Karkalakos
Ha publicado el producto
Su EA de rejilla gana 9 de cada 10 operaciones. Esa nunca fue la pregunta. Ejecuté el mecanismo que usan los robots de oro más vendidos — rejilla, recuperación, sin stop loss en ninguna posición, un único stop duro sobre el capital — durante cuatro años de datos reales de XAUUSD, con el spread real tomado de cada barra, comisión real y swap real. 156 series ganadoras de 169. Una tasa de acierto del 92,3 %. La cuenta terminó un 86,2 % abajo, con un drawdown máximo del 96,8 %. Ambas cifras son
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Sotirios Karkalakos
Ha publicado el producto
Casi todo lo que se vende para MetaTrader predice la dirección. Comprobé si eso es posible, sobre trece años de EURUSD y oro, con validación walk-forward y una prueba de control con etiquetas barajadas al azar. La dirección salió entre el 48 y el 51 por ciento. En el oro, los mismos modelos sacaron un 53,4 por ciento con las etiquetas barajadas: más que con los datos reales. Así se ve por dentro un sistema sobreajustado, y por eso una curva de backtest no es una prueba. El tamaño del movimiento
Sotirios Karkalakos
Ha publicado el producto
La mayoría de los operadores que no superan una prueba de selección en una empresa de trading por cuenta propia no fracasan porque no conozcan las reglas. Fracasan porque, en el momento decisivo, nadie estaba haciendo los cálculos. Prop Guard Monitor sí hace los cálculos. Se sitúa en un gráfico, supervisa toda la cuenta y responde continuamente a una pregunta: cuánto margen queda antes de que se incumpla una regla. Nunca cierra una posición. Nunca borra una orden. Nunca bloquea nada. Esta
Sotirios Karkalakos
Ha publicado el producto
Una cuenta fondeada no se pierde en la operación de la que uno se arrepiente. Se pierde en la que seguía abierta cuando el límite diario ya se había cruzado. Prop Guard se coloca en un solo gráfico y vigila toda la cuenta. No abre operaciones y no genera señales. Responde continuamente a una sola pregunta: cuánto margen queda antes de romper una regla — y cuando la respuesta se acerca lo suficiente a cero, actúa. LO QUE LA MAYORÍA DE LOS GUARDIANES HACE MAL El pico de drawdown se escribe en