Lucifer Gold Scalper MT5
- Experts
- Versão: 1.0
- Ativações: 10
LUCIFER GOLD SCALPER (MT5)
Structure-breakout trading for XAUUSD that only trades when gold is on fire
Lucifer Gold Scalper is a fully automated Expert Advisor for gold (XAUUSD) on MetaTrader 5. It is named after the morning star, the light-bringer. It reads market structure on the H1 chart, finds confirmed swing highs and swing lows, and places pending stop orders just inside those levels. When price breaks out of the structure the order is filled, and the trade is managed with a hard stop loss, a hard take profit and a trailing stop.
What sets Lucifer apart: it is selective. Breakouts follow through best when gold is moving hard and fail most often when the market goes quiet. So at the start of every trading day, Lucifer measures gold's daily volatility and compares it with the last 100 days. On high-volatility days it hunts breakouts with all four engines. On quiet days it removes its pending orders and stands aside. Fewer trades, taken when the market gives breakouts room to run.
No martingale. No grid averaging. Every order carries a fixed stop loss and take profit from the moment it is placed.
HOW IT WORKS
1. Daily volatility gate
- At the first tick of each new day, Lucifer reads the 14-day ATR of gold's daily candles, using closed candles only.
- It compares that ATR with the median of the last 100 days. If the ATR is above the median, the day is "volatile" and trading is on.
- If it is at or below the median, the day is "quiet": all pending orders are removed and no new orders are placed until the next volatile day. Engine A's levels are remembered and restored when trading resumes.
- Open positions are never abandoned; they keep their stop loss, take profit and trailing stop.
- If daily data is unavailable, Lucifer treats the day as quiet and does not trade.
- Each day's decision is written to the Experts journal, so you can always see why Lucifer is trading or waiting.
2. Pivot detection (H1)
A swing high is a candle high that no candle to its left (within a set number of bars) exceeds and no candle to its right breaks. A swing low is the mirror image. A pivot counts as "confirmed" only once the required number of right-hand bars has closed, so the EA never trades a level that may still change.
3. Breakout entries
For every confirmed swing high the EA places a Buy Stop slightly below it; for every swing low, a Sell Stop slightly above it. The small inset gets the order filled as price pushes into the level, instead of waiting for a full break.
4. Four independent engines
The EA runs four separate engines, each with its own magic number, lot settings and trailing distance. You can run all four together or any single one.
Lucifer A: Sticky pivots
H1 pivots of 10 bars left / 7 bars right. Entry 1.80 inside the pivot. Stop loss 5.00, take profit 15.00 (price units, USD per ounce). Keeps up to 6 pending orders alive at once; an unfilled order expires after 190 hours. After a losing or break-even exit, the same level can be re-armed once at the next H1 bar (up to 3 fills per level).
Lucifer B: Latest-swing tracker
Asymmetric pivots: 25/2 bars for highs, 10/3 for lows. Entry 1.50 (buy) / 1.90 (sell) inside. Stop loss 5.00, take profit 25.00. Holds one pending order per side that always follows the most recent swing. Ignores a new swing that sits too close to price (under 1.20) or a level older than 84 hours, and pauses around the daily rollover (22:15 - 01:15 server time) to avoid rollover spreads.
Lucifer C: Level book
H1 pivots of 7/5 bars. Entry 2.20 inside. Stop loss 10.00, take profit 25.00. Keeps a "book" of every confirmed level from the last 10 days and, every 15 minutes, works the eligible level nearest to price. A level can be traded up to 4 times. It is re-armed only after a near break-even exit (between -1.20 and +0.35), and only on the next M15 bar. Old levels sitting right next to price are skipped in favour of fresher structure.
Lucifer D: Major structure
Wide H1 pivots of 27/20 bars, i.e. only significant swing points. Entry 2.20 (buy) / 1.25 (sell) inside. Stop loss 8.00, take profit 17.00. Level book of 14 days, up to 2 fills per level, same re-arm rule as C.
5. Trade management
Once a trade is 0.15 in profit, a trailing stop starts following the best price at a fixed distance (A 1.10, B 1.20, C 1.00, D 0.50). The trailing stop is held internally on every tick. It is also sent to the broker as the real stop loss whenever the broker's stop and freeze levels allow it (floating levels included), so the protection survives a lost connection.
6. Protection filters
- Maximum spread filter (default 120 points): no new orders while spreads are wide.
- Margin check: a pending order is placed only if the account could fund it together with every other pending order of the EA. Pending orders the account can no longer fund are removed before they trigger.
- Trades only inside your broker's trading session, so no orders are sent while the market is closed.
- No new orders from Friday 22:00 server time until the market reopens; on live accounts all pending orders are removed on Friday evening.
- Before placing any order on a live account, the EA checks that the terminal is connected, trading is allowed and the last tick is fresh (default 15 seconds).
- Restart recovery: after a restart, reconnect or VPS migration, the EA rebuilds its state from the last 30 days of trade history and restores trailing stops, so it does not double-enter levels it has already traded.
MONEY MANAGEMENT
Each engine has its own lot mode:
- Fixed lot (default 0.01)
- Risk % of balance per trade, calculated from that engine's stop-loss distance
- Lot per balance: the fixed lot scaled up or down with your balance
ON-CHART PANEL
An abyss-black dashboard with crimson wings around the morning star shows symbol, spread, open positions, pending orders, active engines and connection state. Choose Big, Small or Off. Every order, fill, exit and skipped signal can also be written to a CSV trace file (Terminal\Common\Files), so you can audit exactly what the EA did.
REQUIREMENTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- Symbol: XAUUSD (any broker suffix). Attach to one chart only. The chart's timeframe does not matter; the EA reads D1, H1 and M15 itself.
- Account type: hedging (the engines can hold buy and sell positions at the same time).
- Server time: the session filters are set for brokers on GMT+2 / GMT+3 (EU daylight saving). Adjust the Friday cut-off hour if your broker differs.
- Recommended start: from 1,000 USD with the default 0.01 lots on each engine.
- Use a VPS close to your broker and a low-latency ECN account. The EA enters with stop orders and trails tightly, so execution quality (latency and slippage) has a direct effect on results.
- Be patient: Lucifer is selective by design. In calm markets it can go days or even weeks without a trade, and it waits until gold becomes volatile again.
- Positions can stay open over the daily rollover or the weekend, where a price gap can move past the stop loss.
- Lucifer has no news filter. Consider pausing it around major US releases (FOMC, NFP, CPI).
MAIN INPUTS
- Entry mode: all engines or A / B / C / D only
- Volatility gate on/off, ATR period (default 14) and median lookback in days (default 100)
- Lot mode, fixed lot, risk % and balance reference for each engine
- Magic numbers for each engine (default 2401-2404)
- Pivot lengths, level-book age and fills per level
- Trailing activation and distance for each engine
- Maximum spread, slippage (deviation), Friday cut-off hour, rollover pause for B
- Live safety checks, dashboard size, CSV trace on/off
RISK WARNING
Trading gold on margin carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. Past results, including backtests, do not guarantee future performance. Test the EA on a demo account with your own broker before trading real money, and only trade money you can afford to lose.
