Gold Catalyst

🥇 GOLD CATALYST — A Price-Action Breakout EA Built Specifically for XAUUSD

✅ Back tested 94% win rate, profit factor 1.83 on Every tick based on real ticks

This is a single-position system. It does not grid, does not stack trades against the market, and does not average into losers. Every trade has a hard stop loss and take profit from the moment it's placed.

✅ WHY GOLD CATALYST

✅ Built for one instrument, done properly — tuned for XAUUSD's volatility profile, not adapted from a generic forex template.

✅ No grid, no stacking — one position at a time, always protected by a stop loss. Optional adaptive lot-scaling after a loss streak is available for traders who want it — fully capped, fully toggleable, never required.

✅ Margin-aware by design — position sizing checks your account's actual free margin and the broker's volume limits before ever sending an order, so you don't get silent rejections or oversized trades.

✅ Session and day control built in — trade only the hours and days you choose, skip illiquid sessions, weekend gap risk, or news windows.

✅ Transparent, testable logic — every input is documented. Run it in your own Strategy Tester before risking a cent — we encourage it.

⚙️ HOW IT WORKS

1️⃣ Swing detection — scans a configurable number of bars on each side of a candidate pivot to confirm a genuine swing high or low, with a minimum strength filter to ignore noise.

2️⃣ Breakout entry — a pending Buy Stop or Sell Stop is placed at the confirmed pivot, so the trade only triggers if price actually breaks the level.

3️⃣ Trend filter (optional) — a configurable moving average (EMA/SMA/SMMA/LWMA, any timeframe) can require breakouts to align with the broader trend.

4️⃣ Smart lot sizing — choose a percentage of equity, a fixed dollar risk, or a fixed lot size. The EA verifies the resulting position is actually affordable before sending it.

5️⃣ Managed exit — fixed stop loss and take profit on every trade, plus an optional trailing stop that respects your broker's minimum stop distance.

📊 BACKTEST PERFORMANCE

Tested on XAUUSD, M1, real-tick modelling, 100% history quality, January 2026 – June 2026, $500 initial deposit, 1:500 leverage:

💰 Net profit: $10,001.14 (from a $500 starting balance)

📈 Profit factor: 1.83

🎯 Win rate: 94.4% (385 of 408 trades)

🛡️ Maximum equity drawdown: 17.91%

🔁 Total trades: 408 across 816 deals

🛠️ RECOMMENDED SETUP

✅ Symbol: XAUUSD (Gold) in 1M — primary design target

✅ Account type: Netting, MetaTrader 5

✅ Suggested minimum deposit: $500+ (scales with your chosen risk %)

✅ Leverage: 1:100 or higher recommended for Gold's contract size

✅ Broker: a low-spread ECN/Raw account is strongly recommended given Gold's typical spread and volatility

✅ VPS: recommended for uninterrupted pending-order management

⚙️ SETTINGS OVERVIEW

✅ Risk Type — Fixed Stop-Loss Percentage, Fixed Stop-Loss Amount, or Fixed Lot Size

✅ MA Trend Filter — optional, fully configurable period/method/timeframe

✅ Day-of-Week & Session Filters — restrict trading to specific hours and days

✅ Trailing Stop — configurable trigger and distance, throttled to avoid excessive server requests

✅ Adaptive Lot Scaling (optional) — increases size after a loss streak by a configurable multiplier, capped, and always re-checked against account margin


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