Auroquintis

Auroquintis is an automated trading system for MetaTrader 5, designed primarily for XAUUSD (Gold). It combines multiple trading strategies with integrated risk management and portfolio exposure controls.

Developed by Trading Profittevole, Auroquintis is built around a simple principle: automated trading should involve more than identifying entry signals. Position sizing, order execution, exposure management, and risk limits are equally important parts of the trading process.

The standard Conservative configuration combines five strategy modules within a single Expert Advisor, supported by a coordinated Portfolio Guard.

1. Trading approach

Auroquintis uses multiple algorithmic strategies to evaluate trading opportunities in the gold market. Its strategy modules analyze price behavior and technical conditions to generate and manage trading orders.

Depending on the selected configuration and market conditions, the EA can:

• Open Buy and Sell trades.

• Place and manage pending orders.

• Apply Stop Loss and Take Profit levels.

• Manage open positions using predefined exit rules.

• Apply optional High/Low-based trailing stop management.

• Coordinate exposure generated by different strategy modules.

The EA is primarily configured and historically tested on XAUUSD, M15. Its standard operating profile is already configured, so users do not need to optimize a large number of internal strategy settings before evaluating the system.

The objective is to provide a coordinated framework for automated execution and risk management, rather than relying on a single trading signal.

2. Portfolio Guard: integrated exposure management

One of Auroquintis's central features is its Portfolio Guard, which evaluates the risk associated with existing positions and pending orders before accepting additional exposure.

The Portfolio Guard operates through three complementary levels:

Price Cluster Control

Groups nearby orders according to their price levels and direction. It can limit exposure when several strategies generate orders in the same price area.

Directional Risk Control

Evaluates the combined risk of Buy-side and Sell-side exposure separately, including eligible open positions and pending orders.

Total Portfolio Risk Control

Provides optional limits on the overall estimated risk generated by Auroquintis positions and pending orders.

Risk thresholds can be specified as percentages of account capital, fixed amounts in account currency, or both. When multiple limits are enabled, they are evaluated together.

These controls are intended to restrict excessive concentration of estimated risk. They do not eliminate market risk, slippage, gaps, or losses beyond the specified thresholds.

3. Money management and execution

Auroquintis offers several position-sizing methods:

Fixed Lot Mode: assigns a predefined lot size to new trades. This is the standard configuration.

Reference Balance Scaling: adjusts lot size proportionally to a chosen reference balance and reference lot.

Original Risk-Based Sizing: allows the EA's internal money-management logic to determine position volume when the two explicit sizing overrides are disabled.

When Fixed Lot Mode is enabled, it takes priority over the other sizing methods.

Additional execution safeguards include spread limits, margin checks, optional news-event filtering, and Stop Loss/Take Profit adjustment following differences between the requested entry price and the actual execution price.

The adjustment mechanism is designed to preserve the intended distance between entry and protective levels when technically possible. Broker execution conditions may still affect the final outcome.

4. Non-Farm Payrolls news filter

Auroquintis includes an optional filter for US Non-Farm Payrolls (NFP) announcements.

When enabled, the filter can restrict new entries and cancel applicable pending orders during a configurable event window.

The current standard configuration does not automatically close all existing positions before NFP announcements.

For live operation, the EA can use the official US Bureau of Labor Statistics calendar, with fallback scheduling logic when the online data is unavailable.

This feature is an additional operational safeguard, not a guarantee of protection against news-related volatility.

5. Recommended environment

Platform: MetaTrader 5
Primary instrument: XAUUSD (Gold), including compatible broker symbol variants
Recommended chart timeframe: M15
Current MT5 version: 1.20
Account type: Hedging account required by the current implementation

The EA is designed to manage independent positions and pending orders. The current implementation does not support MT5 netting accounts.

For continuous automated operation, a stable connection or a properly configured VPS is recommended.

Execution may differ across brokers because of symbol specifications, spreads, commissions, liquidity, slippage, and server conditions.

6. External input parameters

The main settings are organized into the following groups.

INFORMATION

• ShowInfoPanel: enables or disables the on-chart information panel showing the EA name and principal operating settings.

TRADING

• AllowBuyTrades / AllowSellTrades: enable or disable new trades in each direction.

• MaxSpread: maximum permitted spread, measured in broker points.

• UseHL_TrailingSL: enables High/Low-based trailing stop management.

• ST1_MagicNumber: base identifier used to distinguish the EA's trading activity. Use appropriate identifiers when operating multiple independent installations.

• ST1_Comment: comment assigned to orders.

• RemoveCommentSuffix: controls the optional suffix appended to order comments.

MONEY MANAGEMENT

• UseFixedLot: enables fixed-volume trading.

• FixedLot: lot size used when fixed-volume trading is enabled.

• UseReferenceLotScaling: enables proportional lot sizing when fixed-volume mode is disabled.

• ReferenceBalance / ReferenceLot: define the capital-to-volume relationship used in reference scaling.

• ForceBalanceToUse: optionally substitutes a specified capital value for sizing calculations; zero uses the selected account capital measure.

• Risk: selects the original money-management calculation mode when the explicit volume overrides are not active.

• StartLots: base lot setting used by applicable original money-management modes.

• MaxAllowedDD: drawdown assumption used in the original risk-based lot calculation. It is not an automatic hard stop at that percentage.

• UseWeightedLots: controls strategy-weighted sizing within the applicable original risk model.

• MaxRiskPerStrategy_: risk-sizing parameter used by the corresponding strategy-based money-management mode.

• PropFirmMaxDailyDD: optional daily drawdown control; zero disables it. Actual account protection remains subject to execution conditions and the EA's internal monitoring.

• UseEquity: uses account equity rather than balance in relevant sizing calculations.

• OnlyUp: optionally maintains a high-water reference for capital-based lot calculations.

• CheckMargin: enables margin checking as part of order processing.

NEWS FILTER

• EnableNFP_Filter: enables or disables the Non-Farm Payrolls event filter.

LOGGING

• LogLevel: sets the diagnostic output level: Off, Errors, Normal, or Debug.

PORTFOLIO GUARD

• EnablePriceClusterLimit: enables the coordinated Portfolio Guard checks.

• ClusterRangePoints: price distance, in broker points, used to identify connected price clusters.

• MaxClusterLots: optional maximum combined volume within a price cluster.

• MaxClusterRiskPercent / MaxClusterRiskMoney: optional risk limits for a price cluster.

• MaxDirectionalAuroquintisRiskPercent / MaxDirectionalAuroquintisRiskMoney: optional combined exposure limits for each trading direction.

• MaxTotalAuroquintisRiskPercent / MaxTotalAuroquintisRiskMoney: optional limits on total estimated EA exposure.

A zero value disables the corresponding individual limit. Percentage and fixed-money limits can be combined.

EXECUTION / SAFETY

• RebaseSLTPToActualFill: enables adjustment of protective price levels to account for differences between the intended entry and the actual fill, where supported.

7. Historical testing and live monitoring

Auroquintis's underlying trading system has been evaluated over multiple years of historical XAUUSD data, using MetaTrader Strategy Tester and different parameter configurations.

Historical testing results should be assessed together with drawdown, execution assumptions, trade distribution, and changing market conditions. Backtests are simulations and must not be interpreted as real trading results.

Live account monitoring through MQL5 Signals:

https://www.mql5.com/it/signals/2399072

The monitored live account uses the published operating preset. Its performance provides an additional reference for evaluating real execution conditions, but does not guarantee comparable results on other accounts.

8. Getting started

Install the Expert Advisor in MetaTrader 5, select a compatible Gold symbol, and attach it to an M15 chart on a suitable Hedging account.

Enable algorithmic trading and verify that the account, symbol specification, spread, margin availability, and operating settings are appropriate.

If the online NFP calendar is required, allow the official BLS website in the terminal's WebRequest settings.

Review the supplied default parameters before trading. Use the Strategy Tester and a demo environment to understand the EA's behavior and potential drawdown before considering live capital.

For questions about setup and product operation, use the MQL5 product comments or messaging system.

Risk disclosure

Trading gold and leveraged financial instruments involves substantial risk. Auroquintis can experience losing trades, extended drawdowns, and periods without positive performance. Stop Loss orders and risk controls do not guarantee a fixed maximum loss.

Past results, including historical backtests and live account performance, do not guarantee future returns. Users remain responsible for their trading decisions, account settings, and risk exposure.