Classic Magic Surfer

Classic Magic Surfer

A gold (XAUUSD) expert advisor that trades five timeframes at once from a single chart.

Each timeframe is an independent slot with its own entry, stop and target. A signal on one never touches a trade on another. Attach it to one chart and leave it.

What it will never do

• No martingale. Lots never grow after a loss.
• No grid, no averaging down.
• No virtual stops. Every trade carries a real stop on the broker's server from the moment it opens.
• No black box. Fixed rules, same behaviour in every market.

Features

• M5, M10, M15, M30 and H4 live by default. M1 included, off.
• Risk-percent sizing from each trade's own stop, or fixed lot.
• Cost gate: skips any setup whose target cannot clear the spread.
• Daily loss stop: closes everything, stands down until tomorrow.
• Drawdown pause: blocks new trades, lets open ones finish.
• Spread guard, session hours and a Friday cutoff.
• Economic news filter.
• Live dashboard and clean chart theme.

News filter

• Uses MetaTrader's own calendar. Nothing to install, no time zone to set.
• Pick the currencies and the importance level.
• Set the minutes before and after a release to stand aside.
• Open trades keep being managed through the window. Only new entries stop.
• Optionally close open trades when a window opens: in profit only, or all.
• Releases drawn on the chart, window edges marked, name printed vertically.

Note: MetaTrader blocks calendar access inside the Strategy Tester, so this filter is inactive in backtests. Platform limit, not a fault.

Dashboard

• Spread, balance, equity, day P/L.
• Open trades against your cap, trades today, win rate, net.
• Which timeframes are live.
• Status: TRADING, NEWS LOCK, SPREAD TOO WIDE, SESSION CLOSED, DRAWDOWN PAUSE, DAILY LOSS STOP.
• Next release and a countdown to the lock.

Optional dark theme with the grid off. Your chart settings are restored when the EA is removed.

Requirements

• Symbol: XAUUSD only.
• Chart: one chart, any timeframe. It reads its own timeframes internally.
• Account: hedging. On netting, keep max positions at 1.
• Minimum deposit: 5,000 USD at 1% risk. Below that the broker's minimum lot becomes the floor and real risk per trade exceeds your setting.
• Broker: low, stable gold spread.
• VPS recommended. It cannot manage a trade while your terminal is closed.

Setup

1. Attach to one XAUUSD chart.
2. Set your risk percent and spread limit.
3. Decide on the daily loss stop and drawdown pause.
4. Run demo first.

Inputs

General

• Magic base — order ID. Change it if another EA shares the account.
• Order comment — text on each order.
• Max spread — points. No new trades above this. 0 = off.

Sizing

• Fixed volume / Risk percent — how lots are chosen.
• Fixed volume — lot used in fixed mode.
• Risk per trade — percent of balance per trade.
• Volume cap — hard lot ceiling.

Cost gate

• Reject if target < this x spread — raise it on a wide-spread broker.

Portfolio

• Max positions, all slots — total open trades.
• Max positions per slot — per timeframe and direction.
• Block opposite side — no buy and sell together.
• Daily loss stop — percent. Closes all, stops until tomorrow. 0 = off.
• Max drawdown from peak equity — percent. Pauses new trades only. 0 = off.
• Resume at — percent where the pause lifts.
• Clear pause each new day — lift it at the day roll.

Session (server time)

• Restrict trading hours — turn the window on.
• Session start hour
• Session stop hour
• No new trades late Friday
• Friday cutoff hour

News filter

• News filter ON
• Currencies — comma separated. USD moves gold.
• Which releases count — high, high plus medium, or all.
• Minutes before — stop opening this early.
• Minutes after — stay out this long.
• Close open trades on window — off by default.
• Close which — in profit only, or all.
• Draw lines on chart
• Line lead factor — how far ahead a release appears.

Exits

• Profit-only dynamic close — will not close a trade still under water net of costs.

Execution

• Closing timeframe — how often open trades are re-checked. M1 default.
• Reject if stop < this x spread — refuses a stop too tight to be real.

Timeframes

• M1 — off. The gold spread eats it.
• M5, M10, M15, M30, H4 — on. Switch any off, the rest carry on.

Display

• Show dashboard
• Apply chart theme — restored when the EA is removed.

Notes

• Test on demo with your own broker's spread and commission first.
• Past results are not a promise of future results. Trading carries risk.
• Questions or a settings file: message me here.