Black Gold Sentinel

Black Gold Sentinel — Institutional-Grade Range Breakout Automation for WTI & Brent Crude Oil, Engineered for Prop Firm Survival

Black Gold Sentinel is not another repainted indicator wrapped in an EA shell. It is a complete, self-contained risk-management and execution system built specifically for traders who need to pass — and stay funded on — proprietary trading firm challenges while trading crude oil, one of the most volatile and liquidity-sensitive instruments on the market.

The strategy is built on a simple, time-tested principle that institutional desks have used for decades: the Asian session compresses volatility into a defined range, and the London/New York overlap resolves that compression into a directional move. Black Gold Sentinel automatically measures the Asian session high and low on WTI or Brent, then arms a One-Cancels-the-Other bracket of Buy Stop and Sell Stop orders just beyond that range. When price breaks out with conviction, the EA is already positioned. When the breakout fails to materialize within the execution window, it stands down — no forced trades, no revenge entries, no exposure carried into dead zones.

What separates Black Gold Sentinel from generic breakout scripts sold elsewhere is everything wrapped around that core logic — the part that actually keeps a funded account alive.

Prop Firm Daily Loss Protection That Cannot Be Bypassed. Every trade, every floating position, and every closed loss is measured continuously against a daily equity reference point established at the start of each broker trading day. The moment cumulative daily loss reaches your configured threshold, the EA closes every position it manages, deletes every pending order it manages, and locks trading until the next session — automatically, without requiring you to be at your desk. Critically, this protection state is persisted independently of the terminal. Restart MetaTrader, restart the EA, lose your internet connection, reboot your VPS — the daily loss ceiling remembers exactly where it was and continues enforcing it. This is the single most common way traders fail funded challenges, and it is the single most common failure point in competing EAs that reset their daily counters on restart. Black Gold Sentinel does not.

Dynamic, Risk-Based Position Sizing. Lot size is never fixed and never guessed. It is calculated on every trade from your live account balance, your configured risk percentage, the stop-loss distance in points, and the exact tick value and tick size of the symbol as reported by your broker — then normalized to the broker's minimum lot, maximum lot, and lot step. The risk you set is the monetary risk you get, trade after trade, regardless of how contract specifications shift between brokers or account types.

A True OCO Execution Engine. The Buy Stop and Sell Stop are never both left live once one triggers. The instant either order fills, its counterpart is cancelled within the same tick cycle, eliminating the possibility of an accidental double exposure on a fast, gapping move — something crude oil is notorious for around inventory data.

Built-In High-Impact News Protection. Oil is uniquely exposed to scheduled data events — EIA inventory releases above all else. Black Gold Sentinel reads the MetaTrader 5 Economic Calendar directly, identifies high-importance USD events, and automatically suspends new order placement and cancels live pending breakout orders inside a configurable window before and after each release. If calendar data is temporarily unavailable, the system does not silently assume the coast is clear — it flags the condition openly on the dashboard so you are never trading blind through a news blackout.

Spread and Execution-Quality Filtering. No orders are triggered or placed when the live spread exceeds your configured maximum, protecting you from slippage-driven losses during illiquid hours or broker feed anomalies.

Automatic Breakeven and Friday Weekend Protection. Once a position reaches your configured profit threshold, the stop loss is moved to breakeven automatically. Every Friday, at a time you configure, all managed positions are closed and all managed pending orders are deleted — removing weekend gap risk entirely without you needing to remember to do it manually.

Full Restart Recovery. Because the EA identifies its own positions and orders exclusively through its Magic Number, a VPS reboot, a terminal crash, or a manual restart never produces duplicate breakout orders and never causes the EA to lose track of what it is already managing. It reads the current state of the account and resumes exactly where it left off.

A Dashboard Built for Professionals, Not Hobbyists. Every input, every calculation, every protective state is displayed in real time on a dark-themed, gold-accented control panel directly on the chart — account balance, equity, today's P/L in both currency and percentage, current drawdown against your daily limit, calculated lot size, risk-reward ratio, breakeven status, live spread with an explicit warning state, Asian session high and low, both breakout price levels, OCO status, and full news-filter status including the next scheduled high-impact event. This is not a debug window. It is a monitoring instrument you can hand to a risk manager, an evaluator, or a funded-account auditor and have it make sense in five seconds.

Black Gold Sentinel is built for one purpose: to let disciplined risk rules run exactly as designed, every session, without fatigue, hesitation, or emotional override — on an instrument that punishes both.