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The account for my gold EA shows a gain of 722.82%. That is a real number from a real account, and I am going to spend the first part of this post explaining why you should not read it the way your brain wants to read it...

launched Gold Breakout V1 on 7 August 2026. After the first two weeks of live trading, here is an update on the real account performance. Live Account Summary (as of 28 August 2026) Signal: Gold Breakout Straddle Broker: IC Markets Starting Balance: $44.25 Additional Deposits: $39...

PART 1 — XAUUSD ADAPTIVE EDGE M15 EA: MODULAR ARCHITECTURE INTRODUCTION The XAUUSD Adaptive Edge M15 Expert Advisor uses ten independent strategy modules: - five BUY strategies; - five SELL strategies...

UNIX Scalper User Guide: How to Trade Gold with a Simple, Disciplined Scalping Workflow UNIX Scalper is designed to help traders scalp Gold (XAUUSD) on lower timeframes with clear market guidance, structured trade levels, and a simple trading workflow...

U.S. inflation has once again forced investors to reassess their expectations for the Fed’s interest rate policy. The PCE price index — the central bank’s key inflation gauge — rose 3.7% year over year in July , while the core reading, excluding food and energy, remained at 3.3...

If MT5 refuses to show a buy and a sell as two separate trades, the platform is usually doing exactly what the account's position-accounting mode requires. MetaTrader 5 supports netting and hedging accounts, and the difference changes what an order does after it is executed...

The volume bar under a forex chart is not a count of lots traded across the currency market. In MetaTrader 5 it is usually tick volume : the number of price or quote updates received while that bar was forming...

In automated trading, finding an entry is only one part of the equation. The real challenge is managing what happens before, during, and after that decision...

Institutional Gold Analysis (XAU/USD): Pre- New york Crossover Window 1. Headline & Executive Summary * Check out my free Indicator: https://www.mql5...

If a London-session box is an hour away from the candles you expected, the first thing to check is the clock behind the chart. MetaTrader 5 does not stamp bars in your laptop's local time. It stamps them in the broker's server time...

Lot size is not a fixed answer for a currency pair. It depends on three things: how much money you are prepared to lose, where the stop goes, and what one tick is worth on the symbol your broker supplies. That is why an MT5 lot size calculator should start with the stop loss. A 0...

A candle chart tells you where price went. It does not tell you where the trading actually happened. Those are different questions, and the second one is often the more useful of the two. A volume profile answers the second question...

GoldenShot - User Guide v1.00 Welcome, and thank you for choosing GoldenShot! This guide walks you through everything the EA does, every input it shows, and how to read its dashboard...

PROPHECY is a standalone, multi-symbol MetaTrader 5 portfolio Expert Advisor. One EA instance manages eleven independent Forex strategy modules, their basket exits, recovery orders and portfolio-wide exposure controls from a single chart...

Almost every trading mistake traces back to one confusion: trading a range as if it were a trend, or a trend as if it were a range. Trend tools whipsaw in ranges. Range tools get run over in trends...

You bought an Expert Advisor, or you are copying somebody's signal, and after a few weeks you want to know one thing. Is it doing anything dangerous behind your back? Specifically: when a trade goes against it, does it open a second, bigger one to rescue the first...

When reviewing MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester reports, Profit Factor and Net Profit are often the first metrics we look at. A report showing a Profit Factor of 2.50 alongside a smooth upward equity curve creates an encouraging first impression...

Event to watch today: 17:00 EET. USD - Federal Reserve Board Chair Kevin Warsh will deliver a speech EURUSD: A month without swaps on majors...

Trading gold on the M1 chart is not difficult because signals are impossible to find. It is difficult because the market can change direction before most traders have time to react. A bullish session can turn into a sharp correction. A strong move can tempt traders to enter too late...

MT5 Trade Copier: Copy Trading on Hedging vs. Netting Accounts Product link: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/191385 One of the most important factors affecting trade replication in MetaTrader 5 is the type of trading account being used...