Chandelier Breakout Gold

Chandelier Breakout Gold — Ride Gold's Real Moves, Lock In Profit Automatically

Most breakout systems get chopped up by noise or exit trends far too early. Chandelier Breakout Gold solves both problems with a single, elegant mechanism: it only trades confirmed breakouts in the direction of the dominant trend, then protects and grows the position with a self-adjusting Chandelier trailing stop that locks in profit automatically — no manual monitoring required.

How it works

The EA watches for XAUUSD to break out of its recent 32-bar range in the direction of the 50/200 EMA trend. Once in a trade, it never uses a static stop: the Chandelier stop trails the highest high (or lowest low) reached, tightening automatically as the move develops. Once profit reaches 6×ATR, the stop locks to breakeven — from that point on, the trade literally cannot turn into a loss.

Backtest highlights (June 2022 – January 2026, real M1 tick data, 0.01 lots): Profict: +3960 $

• 343 trades over 3.5+ years — a real, substantial sample
• Profit Factor: 1.76
• Maximum drawdown: only 159 points — one of the tightest risk profiles you'll find for a gold trend system
• Automatic breakeven lock protects every winning trade once it's sufficiently in profit

Why traders choose a breakeven-lock system

Once a trade crosses the breakeven trigger, your capital is no longer at risk on that position — the worst outcome from that point is a scratch trade. Combined with the trailing exit, this means the strategy is structurally biased toward letting winners run while capping the downside automatically, bar by bar, without you touching a single setting.

Specifications

• Symbol: XAUUSD | Timeframe: M15
• Entry: Donchian(32) breakout + EMA50/EMA200 trend filter
• Exit: Chandelier ATR trailing stop + automatic breakeven lock + fixed 2:1 reward/risk target
• Long-only by default (optimized for gold's structural upward bias); short mode available
• Single position at a time — no martingale, no grid, no position averaging
• Fixed or adjustable lot sizing
• Minimal parameters — deploy in minutes
• Works on any broker; ECN-friendly

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Important: All figures above are historical backtest results on past data. They are not live trading results and do not guarantee future performance. Trading carries risk of capital loss. Test on a demo account first and use risk settings appropriate to your account size.