Quotient Drift MT5

Quotient Drift is a multi-tactic Expert Advisor for gold, traded from a single XAUUSD chart, with a prop-firm rule guard built in. The first tactic buys an RSI dip on the fifteen-minute chart in the direction of the four-hour trend, and sells the mirror image, but only when an ADX regime gate on the trend timeframe says the market is moving. A second, faster tactic does the same on the five-minute chart behind a volatility gate, and three further tactic slots are included and ship switched off. Every ticket carries a stop loss placed with the broker, and the guard halts trading before the daily-loss and max-loss lines of whichever firm programme you select.

HOW IT WORKS

• Entry: the first tactic waits for a seven-period RSI to dip into its oversold zone while price sits above the trend EMA on the four-hour chart, or the reverse for a sell, and takes the trade only while ADX on that timeframe is above the gate. Three alternative engines for the same slot are included and switched off in the shipped presets: a range breakout confirmed by ADX, a band reversion that fades a Bollinger extreme in a quiet regime, and an adaptive mode that picks between pullback and reversion by ADX.
• Second tactic: an RSI pullback on the five-minute chart with an hourly EMA trend filter, allowed only while the hourly ATR is above a set number of points. It is what makes the Fast tier fast, and it is idle for weeks when gold is quiet, by design.
• Further slots: an opening-range breakout, a trend continuation and a range breakout are included and ship switched off. They were screened and did not earn a place in the shipped tiers.
• Exit: stop and target sized from ATR so the same settings behave sensibly at any gold price, a break-even move, a partial close that banks part of the trade, an ATR trailing stop on what is left, and an optional time exit.
• Position policy: one position per tactic, a cap on how many tactics may hold at once, a cap on the sum of open risk, and no adding to a position that is already losing. Where a firm prohibits holding both directions, the profile switches that off.
• Tiers: Standard runs the first tactic alone, one position at a time, and is the slower and more robust of the two. Fast adds the second tactic and a second slot. Funded runs the first tactic at lower risk, for an account that has already passed.
• Guard: daily-loss floor, static or trailing max-loss floor, an optional lock that fixes the floor at your starting balance once profit reaches a level, profit-target latch, minimum trading days, profitable-day counting, consistency gate, minimum holding time, and a size ratchet that never increases size after a losing trade.
• Session and execution: session windows measured in GMT rather than broker time, a pad around the daily rollover, an optional settlement block, a Friday flatten hour, a spread ceiling, a daily entry cap, a news filter from the terminal calendar, and an on-chart dashboard.

FIRM RULE PROFILES

One dropdown fills the rule numbers for the programme you are trading. It sets the target, the daily and total loss limits, whether the floor is static or trailing, the reset clock, minimum days and the consistency rule. It does not check your account, restrict your broker, block any symbol or change how the EA trades. Where a firm prohibits holding both directions or requires a minimum holding time, selecting its profile forces those settings rather than merely defaulting them, so editing a preset cannot lose compliance by accident.

Included: FTMO 2-Step, 1-Step and Funded. FundedNext Stellar 2-Step, 1-Step, Lite and Instant. Blueberry Funded 1-Step, 2-Step, Prime and Instant Elite. The5ers High Stakes, Hyper Growth, Pro Growth and Instant Funding. Eightcap One Phase and Two Phase. Funded Trading Plus 1-Step Express, 2-Step Classic and Instant. Fintokei ProTrader, SwiftTrader and StartTrader, rule numbers only. Manual lets you enter any other firm's rules by hand. Twenty-three programmes across seven firms.

Six of those firms were measured with this engine: FTMO, Eightcap, Blueberry Funded, FundedNext, The5ers and Funded Trading Plus. The5ers and Funded Trading Plus publish no demo server, so their figures come from a stand-in feed rather than the firm's own, and the setup guide says which feed produced every number. Fintokei's rule numbers are in the list, and this engine has never been run on a Fintokei feed.

Firms change their rules. The numbers in force are printed in the Experts log when the EA starts, so you can check them against your own firm dashboard before the first trade.

KEY FEATURES

• Stops before the line, not at it. Every floor keeps a buffer, so slippage on the closing trade cannot turn a guard stop into a breach.
• Daily reset on the firm's own clock: midnight central Europe, midnight eastern Europe, 17:00 US Eastern, broker server midnight or a fixed GMT hour, each following daylight saving.
• Trailing floors done the way each firm measures them, from the end-of-day balance high or the intraday equity high, with an optional lock once profit reaches a set level.
• Target latch closes a little above the target and pauses, so the closing spread still leaves the account above the line.
• Minimum trading days counted, and where a firm requires it, only days that closed in profit are counted.
• Consistency handled as a gate on finishing the phase rather than a block on entries, because blocking entries would deadlock the account after the first profitable day.
• Size ratchet for firms that treat any increase after a loss as martingale.
• Minimum holding time respected when the EA closes on reaching the target. Protective stops are exempt by design.
• Dashboard: the day's result against its floor, the total against the starting balance, days counted against the minimum, open positions against the caps, effective open risk, the spread, and what each tactic is reading.

WHAT THE TESTING SHOWED

These are Strategy Tester results on historical data, not live trading results, and they are not a prediction.

• Five windows were run: 2023, 2024, the first and second halves of 2025, and 2026 to date. The two tiers behave differently across them, and that difference is the point rather than a footnote.
• The Standard tier reached a first-phase target in the trending 2026 window on FTMO's, Eightcap's and FundedNext's own feeds, and reached no target in the flat second half of 2025 on any firm, finishing that half between a five and a half percent loss and a six and a half percent gain.
• The faster tier reached a first-phase target in 27 days in the 2026 trend, at its highest risk step, and in no other window that quickly. In 2023 its second tactic sat out almost entirely, because it only trades when the hourly range is wide and 2023 gold rarely gave it one.
• In the second half of 2025 the faster tier broke a floor at its highest risk step on every programme tested, and on the FTMO 1-Step programme it broke one at the shipped step as well. That is why the shipped step is where it is, and why the setup guide lists FTMO 1-Step as a programme this EA is not recommended for.
• Feeds differ, and every figure says which one produced it. FTMO and Eightcap were measured on those firms' own demo servers in each of the five windows, and so was Blueberry Funded. FundedNext was measured on its own server from 2024 onwards; its gold history does not reach 2023, so that window carries no figure rather than one borrowed from elsewhere. The5ers and Funded Trading Plus publish no demo server, so every figure for them comes from a stand-in feed.
• The5ers and Funded Trading Plus charge a per-lot commission that is not inside those figures. The setup guide prices what it costs.
• Weeks with no trades are the regime gate and the volatility gate working as intended. Forcing frequency is how challenge accounts are usually lost.

WHAT THIS EA DOES NOT DO

• It does not open a position without a broker-side stop loss, in any mode.
• It does not grid, martingale or average into a losing position. There is no series code in it.
• It contains no account, server, broker, symbol or date restrictions. Everything here is a recommendation.
• It does not open new trades around high-impact releases when the news filter is on.
• It does not promise a pass. No setting can make a market move.

RECOMMENDED SETUP

• One XAUUSD chart, one instance. Attaching it twice runs it twice. Any chart timeframe works, because each tactic reads its own timeframes; the measurements were made on an H1 chart.
• Choose your firm programme and phase, set your account size, and load the preset for your firm and tier from the setup guide. Never change the account size mid-phase.
• Risk between 0.75 and 1 percent per trade on the Standard tier, 0.75 on the Fast tier, and 0.35 to 0.5 on a funded account. Higher does not pass faster; it fails sooner.
• Check your broker's symbol name. Some feeds name gold with a suffix.
• A VPS is recommended so the guard keeps counting days and tracking floors while your machine is off.

INPUTS

Grouped as: firm profile, general, the first tactic's engine and trend filter, breakout, reversion, regime gate, stops and targets, trade management, risk, filters, news, challenge guard, prop engine levers, display, portfolio and arbiter, and one group per additional tactic.

REQUIREMENTS

• MetaTrader 5, hedging account recommended. On a netting account the EA switches off opposite-direction holding by itself and still runs.
• FundedNext charges a separate fee to run an expert advisor, and expert advisors are not permitted on its free trial or competition accounts.
• Blueberry Funded quotes gold at reduced leverage and uses a symbol suffix.
• The5ers and Funded Trading Plus charge commission per lot. That cost is not inside the measured figures; the setup guide prices it.
• The news filter reads the terminal's built-in economic calendar. Nothing has to be added to the terminal's allowed addresses, and the filter does nothing inside the Strategy Tester.
• The account number is used only to keep the guard's saved state separate between accounts in one terminal. Nothing in the EA branches on it.
• A MetaTrader 4 version is listed separately. It is a reduced two-tactic build, and its first tactic is the band reversion rather than the trend pullback shipped here.

SETUP GUIDE AND SUPPORT

The full settings manual is a blog post on this site. It carries the rule numbers each firm profile applies, the values measured per firm and tier, the risk ladder per programme, a reference for every input, and the troubleshooting order to work through when the EA is not trading:

The MetaTrader 4 version of this product:

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RISK WARNING

Trading carries substantial risk. Past performance does not guarantee future results, and historical test results are not a prediction of future results. The EA can lose money. Never risk capital you cannot afford to lose.