Strategic Gold Hedge

Strategic Gold Hedge (SGH) is a fully automated Expert Advisor built around a structural price-action engine that reads the market's own extremes — where price has repeatedly tested a level and failed to extend beyond it — and waits for a genuine break of that structure before ever committing capital. Rather than reacting to a single indicator crossing a line, SGH continuously tracks the shape of recent price action, identifies the specific symmetry that marks a exhausted move, and only acts once the market itself confirms the rejection with a real break. Every entry is then handed off to a full risk-management and execution layer, with live performance reported directly on an on-chart dashboard.

SGH works on any liquid symbol and any timeframe you choose. Every trading rule, filter, and risk parameter is exposed as an input — nothing about position sizing, stop placement, or trade pacing is hardcoded.

What it does

• Continuously scans recent price structure for a specific two-point symmetry that marks where a move has run out of steam, then waits for price to actually break that structure before treating it as valid — filtering out the early false starts that catch most breakout systems off guard.
• Applies a configurable context filter that discards a setup if a larger, more dominant extreme already exists nearby, so the EA isn't trading minor structure inside a bigger, still-active move.
• Manages every trade with broker-aware guards: valid stop distances, live margin verification, and the symbol's aggregate volume limit are all checked before an order is ever sent, and automatically re-checked and adapted if the broker still pushes back.
• Runs a directional-sequencing control that keeps the EA from stacking repeated trades in the same direction back-to-back, and a minimum-spacing rule that keeps opposing entries from clustering too close together.
• Runs a broker-safe trailing stop that only moves the stop when the broker will actually accept the modification — eliminating the flood of rejected-modification errors that plague naive trailing-stop implementations.
• Displays everything that matters — live setup state, trade sequencing status, and full performance statistics — directly on the chart, in both live trading and Strategy Tester visual mode.

Key features

Structural Break Engine The core signal is built entirely from price structure, not a lagging indicator overlay — it identifies a specific symmetric pattern in recent highs or lows, requires it to form within a bounded window so stale structure can't trigger late, and only converts it into a live order once price closes beyond the level that would invalidate it. The exact geometry is proprietary; what you get is a signal that only fires on a confirmed structural break, not a guess.

Context & Sequencing Filters Beyond the core signal, SGH layers on independent filters that most breakout EAs skip entirely: a recent-extreme check that throws out setups sitting inside a bigger, still-relevant move, a directional-sequencing lock that enforces trade alternation rather than letting the EA pile into one side of the market, and a minimum-distance rule between opposing entries. Each filter can be tuned or switched off independently.

Full Risk Management Suite

• Configurable lot sizing with a hard ceiling, always normalized to your broker's actual volume step and limits — never rejected for an invalid lot size.
• Fixed stop-loss with a choice of fixed take-profit or a trailing stop that only ever tightens risk, never loosens it.
• Pre-trade guards that check broker stop-distance rules, free margin (accounting for exposure already tied up by other resting orders, not just the new one in isolation), and market-session hours before every single entry — with automatic lot-shrinking and price re-validation if the broker still rejects the first attempt.
• A pending-order expiry system that retires unfilled setups automatically after a configurable window, so stale orders never linger waiting for a move that already passed.

Broker-Safe Trailing Stop Activates once a trade reaches a defined profit threshold and steps the stop forward only when the move clears the broker's own minimum stop/freeze distance and represents a real improvement — avoiding the constant failed-modification noise seen in many off-the-shelf EAs, especially right after a stop order fills.

Live Trade-Stats Dashboard An on-chart panel shows total trades, wins, losses, win rate, profit factor, largest win/loss, net profit, running balance/equity, and the current trade-sequencing state — all updating in real time.

Verbose Diagnostics Mode An optional logging switch prints the exact reason any setup or order was skipped — filter, margin, stops, spread, market hours — making it straightforward to understand EA behavior during testing and optimization.

Recommended setup

Getting started

1. Attach SGH to your chosen chart and timeframe.
2. Review the Order Management, Trailing Stop, and Direction Alternation input groups and set them to match your risk tolerance.
3. Enable Algo Trading in MetaTrader 5.
4. SGH will begin reading market structure and managing trades automatically — the dashboard keeps you informed the whole time.

Notes

Trading frequency depends on how the active filters interact with current market conditions — a more selective configuration will naturally trade less often, and that's by design rather than a fault. As with any automated strategy, please backtest and forward-test on a demo account first, and size positions according to your own risk tolerance. Past performance in the Strategy Tester does not guarantee future results.