Gold Volatility Sentinel
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- Versão: 1.0
- Ativações: 10
Gold Volatility Sentinel — Session-Checkpoint Breakout Scalper for XAUUSD
A disciplined, rule-based approach to gold's volatility windows.
Gold Volatility Sentinel does not chase every candle. Three times a day, at fixed session-transition checkpoints, it places a pair of asymmetric breakout orders around the current price — sized by real-time ATR, not a fixed distance — and lets the market decide which direction to take. Once triggered, every single exit is handled by a tight, continuously-adjusting trailing stop. No indicators to chase, no discretionary judgment calls, no martingale.
Backtested results (2017–2026, ~9.2 years, real ticks):
| Metric | Fixed 0.1 Lot | Auto Lot (20% capital ratio) |
|---|---|---|
| Total trades | 823 | 823 |
| Win rate | 88.46% | 88.46% |
| Profit Factor | 4.11 | 4.61 |
| Recovery Factor | 47.6 | 42.0 |
| Sharpe Ratio | 20.2 | 23.6 |
| Max drawdown (balance) | 6.41% | 3.77% |
| Max relative drawdown | 7.51% | 11.61% |
| Average hold time | 9 min 23 sec | 9 min 23 sec |
| Net profit ($500 start) | $5,159 | $39,815 |
Short trades: 349 (90.26% win rate) · Long trades: 474 (87.13% win rate)
What makes it different:
- Session-timed, not chart-pattern-timed. Entries are tied to the daily transitions between the Asian, London, and New York sessions — the moments gold's volatility structurally expands — not to a lagging indicator crossover.
- Asymmetric by design. The breakout distance required to trigger a short is wider than for a long, reflecting gold's well-documented long-side structural bias rather than ignoring it.
- Exit is 100% trailing-stop driven. There is no fixed take-profit target to be front-run or to cap a strong move; every winning trade is the result of the same mechanical trailing logic.
- Built for hedging-type accounts with independent multi-position management (up to 4 concurrent trades), each governed by its own initial stop-loss and cumulative margin-usage cap.
- Broker-portable in one field. A single GMT-offset input re-aligns the checkpoint schedule to any broker's server time — no manual recalculation needed when switching brokers.
Recommended setup:
- Account type: Hedging
- Symbol: XAUUSD (Gold)
- Recommended broker environment: Raw/Zero-spread account with low commission (this strategy's edge is sensitive to spread cost — see notes below)
- Timeframe: any (internal logic runs on M5 bar detection regardless of chart period)
- VPS recommended for uninterrupted checkpoint execution
Important, honest notes before you buy:
- These are backtest results using tick-level historical data, not a verified live track record. Past performance, backtested or live, never guarantees future results.
- Spread and commission materially affect this strategy given its scalping nature; results on a standard (wide-spread) account will be meaningfully worse than shown above. Raw/Zero-type accounts are strongly recommended.
- We encourage running the EA on a demo account first to confirm behavior matches your broker's execution conditions before committing real capital.
- A public live signal is planned; check the product page for the current link once available.
