Gold Horizon Core
- Experts
- Version: 1.2
- Activations: 20
Gold Horizon — A Structured Approach to Automated Gold Trading
Gold Horizon is a MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor built for traders who want a defined, automated approach to XAUUSD. It combines six-hour trading signals, fixed lot sizing and scheduled daily closing with a dashboard that keeps its activity visible on your chart.
From evaluating a setup to submitting an order and handling a strategy exit, Gold Horizon follows programmed rules. You choose the available settings, while the robot applies its trading logic consistently.
Completed candles. Defined decisions.
Gold Horizon calculates signals from completed H6 candles using a moving average and standard-deviation bands.
A closing-price crossing above the upper band generates a buy signal. A crossing below the lower band generates a sell signal. Crossing the central average can generate an exit signal.
This gives the strategy defined decision points based on completed price data. Signals use H6 internally, so changing the displayed chart timeframe does not change the strategy’s calculation timeframe.
Trade both directions with a consistent position size
Gold Horizon can open buy and sell positions, allowing it to respond to signals in either market direction.
Each entry uses your configured fixed lot size. The robot does not increase volume automatically to recover a previous loss and does not use martingale sizing. When a position already matches a new signal, it avoids opening an additional position in the same direction.
For users who prefer a straightforward sizing model, this makes the configured trade volume easy to understand and monitor. Fixed sizing does not, however, make the monetary risk of every trade equal.
Build daily closing into your trading routine
Gold Horizon includes a configurable daily closing hour based on your broker’s server time.
At that hour, the robot attempts to close its own positions and pauses new entries until the following day. The default setting is 20:00 server time.
This provides a scheduled closing process without requiring you to manually initiate every daily exit. Closure remains subject to connection, trading permissions, market availability and execution.
Pause entries while keeping exits active
The new-entry setting lets you stop the robot from opening further trades while leaving its exit logic operational.
This is useful when you want to pause new trading activity without switching off the system responsible for managing existing positions.
See what the robot is doing
The integrated dashboard brings the main trading information directly onto your chart:
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Current operating status.
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Number of completed trades.
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Net result in the account currency.
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Winning and losing trade counts.
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Percentage of profitable trades.
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Configured lot size.
The panel distinguishes between waiting for a signal, an open position, paused trading and relevant connection or data conditions. It makes routine monitoring more convenient and helps you understand the system’s current state.
Statistics are attributed to the selected trading symbol and strategy identifier. The closed-position net result includes recorded trading profit, swaps, commissions and fees.
Historical test: January–October 2026
A MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester report for January 1–October 25, 2026 recorded a positive net result using the following setup:
| Test measure | Result |
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| Instrument | XAUUSD |
| Initial deposit | USD 1,000 |
| Fixed lot size | 0.01 |
| Net profit | USD 495.19 |
| Total trades | 99 |
| Profitable trades | 59.56% |
| Profit factor | 1.28 |
| Maximum equity drawdown | 44.67% |
The net profit was equivalent to 49.52% of the initial deposit over the tested period. The equity drawdown shows that the positive final result was accompanied by substantial fluctuations in account equity.
These are historical simulation results from the Strategy Tester, not verified live-account results or a forecast of future performance.
Practical configuration for your broker
Gold Horizon supports automatic detection of a compatible gold/USD cash instrument. You can also enter the exact trading symbol used by your broker.
Available settings cover the fixed lot size, strategy identifier, daily closing hour, execution deviation, new-entry permission, calculation period and band multiplier.
Before submitting an entry, the robot checks trading permissions, quote freshness and available margin. On netting accounts, it also checks for an existing position on the same symbol belonging to another strategy.
How exits operate
Gold Horizon uses strategy-driven exits and scheduled daily closing rather than broker-side Stop Loss or Take Profit orders.
MetaTrader 5 must therefore remain running, connected and permitted to trade for automated exits to operate. A suitable VPS can support continuous operation. If the terminal is offline or trading is unavailable, the programmed exit cannot execute until operating conditions allow it.
Explore the strategy before purchasing
Use the MQL5 Market demo in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester to examine Gold Horizon with your broker’s historical data. Visual mode lets you follow trading activity and inspect the dashboard alongside the chart.
Gold Horizon brings together automated gold trading, consistent fixed-volume entries, scheduled closing and clear monitoring in one Expert Advisor.
Platform: MetaTrader 5
Market: Gold/USD cash instrument, such as XAUUSD
Internal signal timeframe: H6
