Steady Gold Basket
- Эксперты
- Версия: 1.1
- Активации: 5
Steady Gold Basket is an averaging basket Expert Advisor for gold (XAUUSD) on the M5 timeframe. It is built for slow, steady account growth rather than fast gains, and it is designed to run on cent accounts with a small deposit.
How it works
- Opens a basket only when its entry filter confirms a trend-direction setup. It does not open trades at random or keep the market permanently.
- If price moves against the basket, it adds positions at volatility-adjusted distances with a controlled lot progression.
- Closes the whole basket together at a small profit from the average price.
- Runs two independent baskets with different entry logic (Magic and Magic+1).
- Opens and adds positions only inside a trading-hours window set in UTC. The broker time zone is detected automatically.
- Includes a spread filter, free-margin and volume-limit checks before every order, and an optional basket loss limit.
Important: risk disclosure
This EA uses averaging (martingale/grid). Positions have no individual stop loss. A long one-way move can create a large floating loss. Use it only on a separate account, with capital you can afford to lose, and keep the recommended lot-to-balance ratio. Past test results do not guarantee future results.
Recommended settings
- Symbol: XAUUSD (gold), timeframe M5
- Account: hedging account (netting accounts are not supported)
- Lot ratio: 0.01 base lot for every 7,500 USD of balance
- Cent account: 0.01 lot with 7,500 USC (75 USD real money)
- Do not increase the lot above this ratio.
- Spread filter: the EA does not open or add positions while the spread is wider than 0.50. Brokers usually widen the spread in fast, volatile markets, so the EA trades less in those periods by design. A broker with a normal gold spread of about 0.20-0.40 is recommended. In very volatile years (for example 2026 in the backtest) the EA may open few trades for weeks.
- Leverage 1:100 or higher
Backtest (Strategy Tester, real ticks, XM data, 0.01 base lot, default inputs)
- Jan 2020 to Dec 2022, 7,500 USD deposit: net profit 4,730 USD, profit factor 1.74, max equity drawdown 25%
- Jan 2023 to Nov 2026, 7,500 USD deposit: net profit 7,715 USD, profit factor 1.87, max equity drawdown 29%
These are backtest results, not live trading results. Results differ between brokers because of spread, commission, swap and price data.
Inputs
- Base lot: lot of the first position in a basket
- Max positions per basket: limit on positions in one basket (1-30)
- Allow buy baskets / Allow sell baskets
- Basket loss limit (% of balance): closes a basket at this floating loss (0 = off)
- Start hour / Stop hour (UTC): window for opening and adding positions (default 0-13 UTC)
- Server GMT offset: -99 = automatic. In the Strategy Tester the EA assumes a GMT+2/+3 server; set it manually if your broker uses another time zone
- Max spread: no new positions above this spread
- Finish baskets, no new ones: lets open baskets close normally, then stops
- Magic number: the EA uses this number and the next one
Notes
- Attach the EA to one XAUUSD M5 chart only. Do not run a second copy on the same symbol with the same Magic number (or Magic+1).
- Hedging account required. On a netting account the EA does not open positions.
- A manual Server GMT offset is fixed and does not follow daylight saving time changes. Use automatic (-99) on a live account.
- Keep the terminal running (VPS recommended).
- If your broker uses a different gold symbol name (for example XAUUSDm, GOLD, XAUUSD.c), attach the EA to that symbol.
