Gold Xsniper

HOW IT WORKS
After every closed M1 bar the EA looks for two things at once: an M5 EMA(50) trend (price on the right side of a rising or falling EMA) and a fresh 3-candle fair value gap of at least 8 pips in the same direction. When both agree it places a single buy-stop or sell-stop just beyond the high/low of the last 5 M1 bars (30 points buffer), with a fixed stop loss and take profit, and cancels the order if it is not triggered within 3 minutes. There is never more than one position or pending order, with a 30-second cooldown between orders. Open trades are managed on every tick: once a trade is 100 points (1.00 USD) in profit the stop moves to break-even + 20 points and a fixed trailing stop 10 pips (0.10 USD) behind the price follows it, so many trades close within seconds. It only trades inside the London and New York sessions and only when the spread is acceptable. Optional filters (CVD pressure proxy, entropy/volatility regime, tick order-flow) are included and switched OFF by default, exactly as in the tested run.

BACKTEST RESULTS (Strategy Tester, Exness XAUUSD, M1, 2025-01-02 to 2026-10-08, 16,522 trades, 100,000 USD deposit, risk-based lot 2% per trade, seller's own report)
- Net profit 678,177 (the lot grows with the balance, so profit compounds), profit factor 1.55, win rate 74.6%, average trade +41, largest loss -25,753, longest losing streak 11.
- Maximum equity drawdown 263,906 = 25.33% (balance drawdown 25.26%), longest drawdown about 189 days. The tester report also prints a 100% equity drawdown which could not be reproduced or explained.
- The result FADED: 2025 +769,619, but 2026 up to 9 October LOST -91,442. 8 of 22 months were losing months (worst: April 2026, -57,445); the best month (October 2025) made 34.7% of the total profit.
- The median trade lasted about 13 seconds. Only 43% of the test ticks were real ticks; the spread model is unknown. This is a backtest, not live trading: no live results are claimed.

READ BEFORE USING
- The default inputs reproduce the tested distances and exits: stop loss 5000 pips, take profit 11000 pips, break-even / trailing in POINTS (UsePipsForTrailing = false). "Pips" in this EA are 0.01 price units, so 5000 pips = a 50.00 USD move and 11000 pips = 110.00 USD. The points inputs depend on your broker's digits: tested on a 2-digit gold quote (1 point = 0.01 USD); on a 3-digit quote the distances are ten times smaller and behaviour will differ.
- RISK: the test used 2% risk per trade with compounding (0.39 to 4.16 lots on 100,000 USD). By default this build uses 0.5% risk. That is still a high-risk scalper: the largest single loss in the test was more than 25% of the starting deposit. Results and drawdown scale with risk. Choose a size that is right for YOUR account, and start on a demo account.
- A scalper with 13-second trades is very sensitive to spread, slippage, execution speed and the broker's stop level. Live results can be very different from the backtest.
- Designed and tested on XAUUSD only. On other symbols the input AutoAdaptSymbol (default true) scales every distance by price / 2500 so the EA can run at all; those symbols are NOT backtested - leave it on XAUUSD for the tested behaviour, or set AutoAdaptSymbol = false to use the raw gold distances.
- Session hours (London 7-16, New York 12-21) are BROKER SERVER time, tested on Exness. Check your broker's server-time offset. Symbols are named differently by brokers (XAUUSD, XAUUSDm, GOLD ...): check digits and PipSize (default 0.01).
- Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. Trading leveraged products is risky; this is not financial advice.

SETUP
1. Attach the EA to an XAUUSD chart and allow Algo Trading.
2. Leave the defaults for the tested behaviour, or set your own risk (RiskPercent) / fixed lot (UseRiskLot = false, FixedLot).
3. Check the session hours against your broker's server time.

## What's new (version 1.02)

Defaults updated to the latest tested configuration (take profit 11000 pips, point-based break-even and trailing); screenshots and results refreshed. Includes the v1.01 fix for the Market validation: the EA adapts all distances and the spread limit to the symbol's price scale (input AutoAdaptSymbol, default true; XAUUSD behaviour unchanged), so it also places orders on non-gold symbols.

(1.01 - validator fix; 1.00 - first release.)