Sotirios Karkalakos
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Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
Passing a prop firm challenge is not about the good weeks. It is about surviving the bad one.

What Gold Channel Rider does to protect the account:
- Hard stop loss on every trade, sent with the order. Nothing is ever open without one.
- Flat for the weekend: no new orders late on Friday, everything closed before the market shuts. No Monday gap.
- Daily loss limit: reach it and the EA closes everything and pauses until the next day.
- Maximum drawdown stop, measured from peak equity: reach it and trading stops.
- No grid, no martingale, no averaging down.

There is a ready-made Prop firm setfile in the Comments tab of the product page: 0.25% risk per trade, 3% daily loss limit, 6% maximum drawdown. Load it, check your firm's own limits, and adjust if they are stricter.

Test it in the Strategy Tester first with the free demo:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
One input decides how aggressive Gold Channel Rider is: risk per trade.

Every trade is sized from its own stop loss, so "0.5% risk" means that if the stop is hit you lose 0.5% of the account. Not more.

Same rules, same 13.7 years of XAUUSD (MT5 Strategy Tester, 10,000 USD start):
0.25% risk -> 19,922 USD | 5.2% a year | max drawdown 8.5%
0.5% risk (default) -> 39,783 USD | 10.6% a year | max drawdown 9.3%
1% risk -> 164,808 USD | 22.7% a year | max drawdown 18.0%

The honest part: growth and drawdown rise together. There is no setting that gives you 1% returns with 0.25% pain. My advice is to start at 0.5% or lower.

One more honest detail: gold's stops are wide right now, so the minimum lot of 0.01 already risks about 75-150 USD per trade. For a true 0.5% plan on roughly 30,000 USD. Smaller account? Use the "Small account" setfile from the Comments tab.

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
A 92% win rate can still empty your account.

Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.

156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.

Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.

Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.

Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
A 92% win rate can still empty your account.

Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.

156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.

Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.

Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.

Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
A 92% win rate can still empty your account.

Before building Gold Channel Rider, I measured the mechanism most best-selling gold robots use: grid, recovery, no stop loss on any position, one equity stop. Four years of real XAUUSD data, with real spread, commission and swap.

156 winning series out of 169. A 92.3% win rate.
The account finished down 86.2%.

Both numbers are true at the same time. The 13 losing series were big enough to erase everything the 156 winners made, and more.

Gold Channel Rider wins 50.7% of its trades, and I show that number on purpose:
- every trade has a hard stop loss sent with the order
- losers are cut early, winners are left to run
- no grid, no martingale, no averaging down
Result over 13.7 years in the MT5 Strategy Tester: +298% at 0.5% risk per trade, max drawdown 9.3%.

Next time you see a 95% win rate, ask one question: where is the stop loss?

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
One rule made my gold EA better. And I chose it before I looked at the result.

Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.

Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035

How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.

Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.

Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
One rule made my gold EA better. And I chose it before I looked at the result.

Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.

Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035

How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.

Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.

Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
One rule made my gold EA better. And I chose it before I looked at the result.

Breakouts that go against gold's multi-month trend are the ones that fail. So Gold Channel Rider compares today's close with the close 120 days ago:
- above it: only buy-stops are placed
- below it: only sell-stops
Nothing else changes.

Same EA, 2013 - 2026, 0.5% risk per trade:
Profit factor: 1.37 -> 1.75
Max drawdown: 15.6% -> 9.3%
Losing years: 2 -> 1 (out of 14)
10,000 USD became 39,783 instead of 34,035

How I avoided curve fitting: I tested seven ideas on 2013-2020 only, then checked the survivors ONCE on 2021-2026. Only this filter held up out of sample. It also works on every lookback from 90 to 160 days, so 120 is not a lucky number.

Want the old behaviour? Set the trend filter to 0 and it trades both sides of every channel.

Free demo, test it on your own broker's data:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Sotirios Karkalakos
Most gold EAs you see here show a 95% win rate and a perfectly straight equity line. Look closer and you will usually find a grid, a martingale, or no stop loss at all. Those curves are smooth right up to the day the account is gone.

Gold Channel Rider does the opposite.

- 4 breakout strategies on XAUUSD (5, 10 and 20-day channels)
- A hard stop loss on EVERY trade, sized by ATR
- No grid. No martingale. No averaging down. Never a bigger lot after a loss
- A 120-day trend filter: it only trades in the direction of gold's bigger move
- Friday close, spread and slippage guards, ready-made prop firm settings

MT5 Strategy Tester, Jan 2013 - Sep 2026, default settings, 0.5% risk per trade:
10,000 -> 39,783 USD
10.6% a year | max drawdown 9.3% | profit factor 1.75 | 1,605 trades
13 of 14 years profitable

The win rate is 50.7%, and I show it on purpose. A trend follower wins by letting winners run and cutting losers short, not by hiding losses.

Don't take my word for it. Download the free demo, run it in your own Strategy Tester with your own broker's data, and compare the result with the chart above. 4 setfiles (Default, Conservative, Small account, Prop firm) are in the Comments tab.

https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/195647

Past results do not guarantee future results.
Sotirios Karkalakos
Опубликовал пост I built three gold grid EAs and measured them honestly
Every week someone posts a gold EA with a win rate above 95% and an equity curve that goes up like a staircase. I wanted to know whether that is a strategy or an accounting trick, so over the last month I built three grid systems for XAUUSD and tested each one until it told me the truth...
Sotirios Karkalakos Выставил продукт

Во вкладке «Комментарии» приложены четыре готовых set-файла: Default, Conservative, Small account (до 15 000 USD) и Prop firm - вместе с точными настройками для тестирования бесплатной демо-версии. Gold Channel Rider — полностью автоматический советник для XAUUSD , основанный на одной из старейших идей системной торговли, которая по-прежнему работает на золоте: когда цена выходит из многодневного диапазона, она, как правило, продолжает движение. Советник одновременно ведёт четыре независимые

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Ваш сеточный советник выигрывает 9 сделок из 10. Вопрос никогда не был в этом. Я прогнал механизм, который используют самые продаваемые роботы по золоту — сетка, усреднение, ни одного стоп-лосса на позициях, единственный жёсткий стоп по эквити — на четырёх годах реальных данных XAUUSD, с реальным спредом, взятым из каждого бара, реальной комиссией и реальным свопом. 156 прибыльных серий из 169. Доля выигрышей 92,3 %. Счёт закончил минус 86,2 %, с максимальной просадкой 96,8 %. Оба числа истинны

Sotirios Karkalakos Выставил продукт

Почти всё, что продаётся для MetaTrader, предсказывает направление. Я проверил, возможно ли это вообще: тринадцать лет EURUSD и золота, walk-forward проверка и контрольный прогон на случайно перемешанных метках. Направление вышло между 48 и 51 процентом. На золоте те же модели дали 53,4 процента на перемешанных метках - выше, чем на настоящих данных. Именно так переобученная система выглядит изнутри, и именно поэтому кривая бэктеста не является доказательством. Размер завтрашнего движения -

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Most traders who fail a prop firm challenge do not fail because they did not know the rules. They fail because, at the moment it mattered, nobody was doing the arithmetic. Prop Guard Monitor does the arithmetic. It sits on one chart, watches the whole account, and answers one question continuously: how much room is left before a rule breaks. It never closes a position. It never deletes an order. It never locks anything. This build cannot touch a trade even if you want it to - the trading

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Финансируемый счёт теряют не на той сделке, о которой потом жалеют. Его теряют на той, которая осталась открытой, когда дневной лимит был уже пройден. Prop Guard работает на одном графике и следит за всем счётом. Он не открывает сделки и не подаёт сигналов. Он непрерывно отвечает на один вопрос: сколько запаса осталось до нарушения правила — и когда ответ подходит достаточно близко к нулю, он действует. ГДЕ ОШИБАЕТСЯ БОЛЬШИНСТВО ЗАЩИТНИКОВ Пик просадки записывается на диск. Закройте терминал

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