Gold Breakout Fusion
- Experts
- Joao Maria Da Costa De Macedo Jara De Carvalho
- Version: 1.0
- Activations: 10
🏆 Gold Breakout Fusion
A professional Gold (XAUUSD) breakout Expert Advisor designed for serious traders, prop firm challenges, and live accounts.
Plug-and-play. Drop the EA on a single XAUUSD chart, choose your risk mode, and let it work. No optimization required, no parameters to fine-tune, no charts to babysit.
Strategy: daily swing breakouts checked hourly.
⚙️ How It Works
Gold Breakout Fusion runs 5 independent breakout strategies in parallel, each with its own swing detection logic, stop loss, take profit, and risk allocation. The combined effect is a smoother equity curve than any single strategy alone — the diversification is what produces a Sharpe of 6.90 with a 4.38% drawdown.
- Swing detection (D1): the EA scans daily highs and lows looking for valid swing points (configurable left/right bars per strategy). When a swing is intact and price approaches it, a stop order is placed just beyond the level.
- Trend filter (H4, optional): EMA 50 on H4 acts as a directional bias. Buy stops only above the EMA, sell stops only below. Configurable: turn off, change to SMA, or change the period.
- FakeOut filter (optional): rejects swings that show signs of weak follow-through (e.g., long upper wicks on potential resistance). Three levels: Off / Weak / Strong.
- Hourly evaluation: the EA reassesses the current swings once per H1 candle close. Configurable to D1 or H4 if you prefer fewer signals.
- Trailing stop (ATR-based, optional): once a position is in profit by a configurable multiple of ATR(14), the stop loss trails behind price using ATR distance. Locks in gains without choking trades.
- Risk per trade: 0.5% by default (MEDIUM mode), with LOW (0.30%) and HIGH (1.00%) presets. Custom percentage available.
The 5 strategies use different swing parameters — some look at recent swings (50–110 bar lookback), others at longer-term levels (160–240 bar lookback). This is what creates the diversification.
📊 Backtest Results — XAUUSD (2020–2026)
Net Profit: +€31,310
Profit Factor: 2.64
Sharpe Ratio: 6.90
Max Drawdown: 4.38%
Win Rate: 64.6%
Total Trades: 621
Recovery Factor: 16.55
Tested on €10,000 starting balance, MEDIUM risk mode (0.5% per trade), default settings. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
📖 Setup Guide
For complete installation instructions, recommended backtest settings, risk management explained in detail, and prop firm configuration tips, please read the full setup guide:
👉 Gold Breakout Fusion — Complete Setup Guide
✨ Why Gold Breakout Fusion
- Set-and-forget — load the EA once, configure risk level, done
- Hard stop loss on every trade — no martingale, no grid, no averaging, no recovery games
- Out-of-sample validated — robustness confirmed on 2015–2019 data (different market regime)
- Built-in prop firm tools — Daily Loss Guard, FIFO mode, execution variability
- Professional dashboard — real-time positions, P/L, performance, account state on chart
- 4 risk presets — pick LOW, MEDIUM, HIGH, or define your own
🎯 Risk Modes
| Mode | Risk per trade | Recommended for |
|---|---|---|
| LOW | 0.30% | Small accounts and conservative growth |
| MEDIUM | 0.50% | Default — recommended for most traders |
| HIGH | 1.00% | Larger accounts with higher risk tolerance |
| CUSTOM | Your choice | Advanced users who want precise control |
Detailed risk guidance and prop firm-specific recommendations are covered in the .
🛡️ Prop Firm Friendly
Daily Loss Guard — Set a daily loss percentage. The EA monitors equity in real-time and automatically closes all positions and cancels pendings if the limit is reached. Stays inactive until the next trading day. Helps stay within prop firm rules.
One Position FIFO Mode — For brokers and prop firms requiring First-In-First-Out (Oanda, Forex.com, and others). Limits the EA to a single open position at a time, ensuring full compliance with FIFO regulations.
Execution Variability — Configurable variation on stop loss, take profit, entry price, and lot size, with separate Min/Max ranges. Useful when running the EA across multiple accounts to keep each account's trade history unique.
📋 Requirements
- Platform: MetaTrader 5
- Symbol: XAUUSD (any broker variant)
- Account type: Hedging or Netting
- Minimum balance: €500 (€1,000+ recommended)
- Broker: Any MT5 broker — VPS recommended for 24/5 uptime
📈 What You Get
- The Expert Advisor ( Gold Breakout Fusion.ex5 )
- Pre-configured optimal default settings
- On-chart professional dashboard
- Lifetime updates
- Direct support from the developer
⚠️ What this EA is NOT
❌ No martingale — losing trades are not doubled
❌ No grid — no stacking of opposing positions
❌ No averaging — no adding to losing positions
❌ No hidden recovery logic — every trade has a hard stop loss
❌ No "guaranteed wins" — trading involves real risk
This is a disciplined, transparent breakout system. Drawdowns happen. Losing periods happen. The edge is statistical and plays out over hundreds of trades.
💬 A Word From the Developer
Most automated trading systems on the market today are sold with flashy labels — AI, machine learning, neural networks, ChatGPT-powered, quantum algorithms. These are marketing tools, not edges. They exist to convince buyers they've stumbled on a money machine.
They haven't. Almost none of those systems survive in real conditions. They overfit historical data, look stunning in their seller's screenshots, and quietly destroy live accounts month after month.
I don't sell that. The EAs I publish are built on classic, well-understood market behaviors — the kind of patterns that have existed for decades and continue to work because they reflect how real money moves through the markets. There's no hidden "AI" doing magic. There's structure, rules, and a documented statistical edge that has held up under out-of-sample testing.
One more honest note: be careful with systems marketed under labels like ICT or SMC. Those frameworks rely heavily on human judgment to identify setups. When someone claims to have automated them into a black-box EA, it usually means the rules were never clearly defined to begin with — and an undefined rule cannot have a measurable edge.
For traders looking for hype, plenty of vendors sell it. For traders who want a transparent, rules-based system with disclosed numbers and known limitations, this product is the right choice.
📞 Support
For questions or issues, send a private message via the MQL5 platform. I respond personally to every buyer, usually within 24 hours.
📜 Disclaimer
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Trading carries substantial risk and is not suitable for every investor. Backtest results were obtained using historical data on a specific broker feed; live results may differ due to spread, slippage, execution latency, and broker-specific conditions. Use proper risk management and never trade money that cannot be lost. The author makes no guarantee of profit and accepts no liability for trading losses.
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