The Crew
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Joshua Dunnink
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Bu EA'ların geliştiricisi.
MetaTrader 5 için, altın ve başlıca döviz paritelerine odaklanan otomatik alım satım sistemleri geliştiriyorum. Her şey tek bir ilke üzerine kurulu:
Önce hesabı koru. - Sürüm: 3.14
- Güncellendi: 11 Ekim 2026
- Etkinleştirmeler: 20
The Crew is a gold (XAUUSD) recovery grid with a stop loss.
Eleven session specialists, one warden, equal-lot ladders, and every group closed at a fixed dollar loss if the market never turns.
Most grid EAs are sold on their equity curve.
This one is sold on its protection layers - every value measured on real ticks, every one yours to change, and in the current version you can switch each of them off in your own tester and watch the difference.
Six protection layers, each one measured
Backtest, MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, real ticks, XAUUSD, BlackBull 2022-11-01 to 2026-09-07, 0.01 lot unless stated.
| layer | what it does | how the value was set |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Derived lot | The lot is the share of your balance you accept floating, divided by the council's measured worst float at 0.01 lot. Printed at start-up. | The engine is linear in volume, so one measured worst case sizes every account. |
| 2. Risk tier | Conservative 10 percent floating (default), Balanced 15, High 20, Extreme 30. | Ruin-and-recovery profile: a 20 percent loss stays under 1 in 100 from about 690; 35 percent under 1 in 40 from about 330 (Low risk - 6, 0.01 lot, raw-spread feeds 2022-2026). |
| 3. Group stop | Every group closes at 150 USD per 0.01 lot, scaled with the lot, read on every tick. | Recovered groups never floated past 120 to 195; one group floated to 645 before returning. A stop of 100 would have closed eight of nine groups that finished ahead. Fires once or twice a year, costs about 15 percent of net. |
| 4. Ladder depth | Each specialist's maximum layers = the deepest ladder she needed over five years. Input since 3.14. | A cap of 5 cut net from 485 to 130 and raised equity drawdown from 7.3 to 16.1 percent (2022-11-01 to 2024-12-31); 12 or more changed nothing. |
| 5. Account breaker | Flattens every Crew group 30 percent below the equity peak (your figure) and stands down until the next day. | Set well above the deepest equity drawdown of the Results records (under 10 percent on all three feeds). |
| 6. Spread guard | No entry above 1.00 USD of gold price. | Priced in dollars, not points: the same guard on two- and three-digit feeds. |
Plus the warden's smaller rules, all on, all inputs: free-margin floor 20 percent (new groups only), 24 ounces of open longs, 15 new groups per specialist a day, no new groups on payrolls Friday, FOMC days, late Friday and mid-December to mid-January.
What one night costs with and without the layers (backtest, real ticks, BlackBull, 2026-09-15 to 2026-10-10, High risk - 11, static 0.20 lot on 10,000): shipped defaults closed the 2026-10-07 group at the stop for a 27 percent equity drawdown and kept trading.
The same trades with the group stop off floated to a 94 percent drawdown and ended in a stop-out on 2026-10-07 13:31.
Same market, same trades, only the layers differ.
Results
Backtest, MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, real ticks, 100 percent history quality, XAUUSD, 10,000 starting balance, shipped defaults of build 3.10 (Low risk - 6 strategies, Compounding Conservative, group stop 150, filters on); 3.11 to 3.14 trade the same.
Nothing below is from a live account.
| feed | window | net | profit factor | trades | equity drawdown |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackBull (raw spread) | 2025-07-01 to 2026-09-07 | +12,797.30 (+128.0%) | 5.70 | 625 | 8.76% |
| Vantage | 2025-07-01 to 2026-09-07 | +12,858.87 (+128.6%) | 4.72 | 637 | 9.64% |
| Pepperstone | 2025-07-01 to 2026-09-07 | +13,269.68 (+132.7%) | 5.39 | 622 | 9.99% |
The headline is the lowest feed.
No group stop fired on any of the three.
Results differ by broker: test on yours.
| council | BlackBull 2025-01 to 2026-09 | BlackBull 2022-11 to 2024-12 | IC Markets 2026-04 to 2026-09 | Vantage 2025-07 to 2026-09 | group stops | minimum balance at 0.01 lot (Cautious / Balanced / Bold) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low risk - 6 (default) | +1,743 | +480 | +570 | +1,339 | 0 | 684 / 333 / 221 |
| Medium risk - 9 | +2,303 | +776 | +894 | +1,673 | 5 | 1,004 / 463 / 280 |
| High risk - 11 | +2,591 | +950 | +856 | +1,859 | 8 | 1,319 / 676 / 414 |
Backtest, real ticks, static 0.01 lot with the 150 group stop, net per record.
Eleven specialists, one warden
Nadia, Nerissa and Nova work the quiet night.
Thea fades the last of it.
Delphine buys sharp dips and stands aside around the New York releases.
Cassandra leans against the London open; Imogen goes through it.
Amara works before the West wakes, Clara the European morning, Juno London's midday push, Evelyn the American close.
Above them Constance keeps the ledger and applies the limits you set.
None of the eleven can overrule her; she never overrules you.
Three councils, each containing the one before: Low risk - 6 (default), Medium risk - 9, High risk - 11, or Custom.
A council changes who trades, never a protection value.
No martingale: every layer is the size of the first.
No backtest-derived day lists.
No DLL, no custom includes, no licensing code.
It never changes a setting you chose: it warns in the journal, then does what you configured.
Quick facts
| Symbol | XAUUSD, any broker spelling (XAUUSD, XAUUSD+, XAUUSD-ECN, GOLD.pro) |
| Account | Hedging |
| Chart | Any timeframe - the EA keeps its own one-minute clock |
| Broker clock | Auto-detect from gold's daily pause (manual shift available) |
| Sizing | Compounding with a risk tier, or static lot |
| Minimum deposit | About 330 for a Balanced appetite, about 690 for Cautious (Small Account preset, backtest guidance) |
| Inputs | Forty-nine, every one obeyed; presets load the tested configurations; the full reference is in the manual |
| Prop-firm rules | Thirteen inputs, all off unless you set them |
| VPS | Recommended - the specialists work through the night |
New in 3.14
Max layers per group is an input (0 = measured depth; lower caps, higher raises) so you can measure the depth limit yourself.
The chart panel carries a guard strip that lights when a layer acts.
Prop-firm rules since 3.11.
Every version since 3.10 trades the same at its defaults.
Risk disclosure
Trading leveraged instruments carries a substantial risk of loss.
This is a grid: it holds losing positions through adverse moves and recovers them with equal-sized layers.
Each group is bounded by its dollar stop and the account by the breaker; both realise the loss they were holding, and on a small account one stop is a large share of the balance.
The results above come from a period in which gold rose overall; a long decline without bounces is the condition this design has the least evidence about.
Past backtest performance does not predict future outcomes.
Test on a demo account first.
