XAU Pivot break and liquidity
- Experts
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Felipe Camargo Zamudio
Master Consultant in financial technology and risk analyst.
Work at DAFSYS, is a company of Development of automated financial systems. - Version: 1.0
- Activations: 5
I’ve spent 17 years in algorithmic trading, and gold has taught me one lesson: spotting a breakout is only the beginning. A strategy needs to identify the levels that matter and react when price moves back into the range.
That idea led me to develop XAU Pivot break and liquidity. Its eight engines look for breakouts of confirmed pivots on XAUUSD, from intraday levels to levels formed over several weeks. If a breakout fails, the system uses M1 and M15 candle confirmation to seek a quick exit.
SHORT DESCRIPTION
8 breakout engines. One gold system. XAU Pivot break and liquidity trades breakouts of confirmed support and resistance pivots on XAUUSD, and kills fake-outs in the first minutes with a candle-confirmation exit. No grid. No martingale. Stop loss and take profit on every trade.
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FULL DESCRIPTION
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XAU OctaPivot - 8 breakout engines. One gold system.
LAUNCH PRICE: [$220] - the price will rise to [$790] after the first [50] copies.
Configuration files in the comments section.
Gold rewards breakouts - and punishes fake ones. XAU Pivot break and liquidity was built around that single fact.
Instead of chasing every new high or low, it waits for levels that have proven themselves: a pivot only becomes tradable after the market has respected it for 19 to 72 hours (depending on the engine). A stop order waits just before the level. When gold breaks out, the trade is already in. When the breakout fails, the candle-confirmation exit closes the trade within minutes, so a fake-out costs cents instead of a full stop loss.
Eight independent engines run this logic on different horizons - from multi-week levels to intraday pivots - and share one risk budget that you set in percent.
BACKTEST HIGHLIGHTS (XAUUSD, Jan 2023 - Sep 2026, $10,000, default settings)
+679% net profit ($10,000 -> $77,922)
Profit factor 2.22
Max equity drawdown 12.70%
Recovery factor 11.52 | Sharpe ratio 7.23
1,739 trades | 65% win rate
Longs win 64.7% and shorts win 65.4% - it is not just riding the gold bull market
Every calendar year positive: 2023 +81%, 2024 +44%, 2025 +58%, 2026 (until Sep) +89%
All 8 engines profitable on their own
Data: IC Markets Raw, MT5 Strategy Tester, 1-minute OHLC, 99% history quality. A full 3.75-year backtest finishes in a few seconds, so you can verify everything yourself before buying with the free demo.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Map confirmed pivots
A high or a low becomes a level only after it has held for a minimum number of hours (19 to 72, depending on the engine) and dominates the bars to its left. Only fresh levels are traded. Old levels that reappear after a break are ignored.
2. Wait with a stop order
A pending stop order is placed just before the level. Stop loss and take profit are sized as a percentage of price, so the system adapts automatically from $1,800 gold to $4,000+ gold. Orders expire and renew automatically while the level is still valid.
3. Candle-confirmation exit (fake-out killer)
If the candle in which the order was filled (M1, then M15) closes back inside the range, the trade is closed immediately. This is the single biggest reason losses stay small.
4. Lock the profit
Break-even with a small lock, trailing stop on the trend engines and a loss-cut take profit on the high win-rate engines.
THE 8 ENGINES
Trend engines (1-4): Macro Pivot, Swing Breakout, Daily Trend, Momentum Runner - tight stops, large targets, ride the breakout.
Scalp engines (5-6): Precision Scalp, Range Scalp - high win rate, fast exits, loss-cut take profit.
Balanced engines (7-8): Session Breakout, Trend Rider - mid targets, early break-even, let the runners run.
Each engine can be switched on/off and weighted individually.
KEY FEATURES
- No grid, no martingale, no averaging down, no hedging tricks
- Stop loss and take profit on every single trade
- Risk-based lot size (% of balance or equity), with per-engine weights
- Daily drawdown guard: closes everything and pauses until the next day
- Max total drawdown stop measured from the equity peak
- Cooldown per engine after a loss + global pause after a losing streak
- NFP filter (automatic GMT detection) + live MQL5 economic calendar filter for high-impact USD news
- Max spread filter, max open-risk cap, max open positions
- Optional Friday close
- Prop-firm preset included
- Works on any chart timeframe - just attach it to XAUUSD
PRESETS (same backtest, Jan 2023 - Sep 2026, $10,000)
Conservative (risk 0.40%): +202% net, PF 2.17, max equity DD 7.1%
Default (risk 0.70%): +679% net, PF 2.22, max equity DD 12.7%
Prop Firm (risk 0.25%, 3% daily / 8% total DD limits): +90% net, PF 2.25, max equity DD 3.7%
The .set files are available in the Comments tab.
REQUIREMENTS & RECOMMENDATIONS
Symbol: XAUUSD / GOLD (any suffix)
Chart timeframe: any (the EA reads H1, M15 and M1 data internally)
Account type: HEDGING (recommended), low-spread / raw-spread broker
Minimum balance: $1,000 (recommended $2,000+; all 8 engines trade at full size from about $5,000)
Leverage: 1:100 or higher
VPS: recommended for 24/5 operation
No DLLs and no external URLs needed - the news filter uses the built-in MQL5 economic calendar.
HOW TO BACKTEST
Symbol XAUUSD, any timeframe, model "1 minute OHLC" or "Every tick based on real ticks", default settings.
If your broker server is not GMT+2/GMT+3 (New York close), set GMT_Offset Winter/Summer for the NFP filter, and set "No-arm hour" to your broker's daily rollover hour.
PARAMETERS (main)
Risk
- Risk % per trade (default 0.70) - % of balance risked at the effective stop
- Use equity / OnlyUp - size on equity, or on the highest balance reached
- Max open risk %, max open positions, max lots per trade
- Max daily drawdown % - close all and stop for the day (default 5%)
- Daily profit target % - optional
- Max total drawdown % - close all and halt the EA (default 20%)
Fake-out filter
- Candle confirmation: 0 = off, 1 = M1 candle, 2 = M1 + M15 candles (default)
- Re-arm after close, fresh-level tolerance, no-arm hour (rollover)
Cooldown
- Cooldown after a loss (minutes, per engine and direction)
- Max consecutive losses and pause hours
Time & News
- Friday stop hour, close pending / open on Friday
- NFP filter, auto GMT, GMT offsets winter/summer, minutes before/after
- Live high-impact USD news filter (MQL5 calendar)
Engines
- Enable / disable each of the 8 engines and set its risk weight
Fine tuning
- Multipliers for entry offset, stop loss, take profit, trailing and fake-out distance
FAQ
Does it use grid or martingale? No. Each engine holds at most its own positions, each with a hard stop loss.
Why only gold? The engines are calibrated on XAUUSD volatility and session structure. It runs on other symbols, but it is designed and tested for gold.
Is it prop-firm friendly? Yes - use the Prop Firm preset and keep the daily DD limit below your firm's rule. If your firm does not allow holding over the weekend, set the Friday stop hour (this reduces profit).
Why is my result different from the screenshots? Spread, commission, server time and history quality differ between brokers. Always run the demo on your own broker first.
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