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On Friday 30 January 2026, gold had its sharpest one-day fall since 1983. For anyone running an EA on XAUUSD, that day is now the most useful stress test in the data. Here is what was reported, and what it means for each type of EA. The day in numbers (as reported) Record first...

A good entry signal is not enough. Market conditions decide whether that signal is worth taking. Smart Liquidity Gold checks five filters before any order is placed. 1. Session filter. The EA trades only during the hours you allow, so dead or erratic sessions are avoided. 2. Spread filter...

We took the published MT5 backtests of 8 of our EAs, added up the net profit of all Januaries, all Februaries and so on, and asked whether the best and the worst calendar month are the same ones from EA to EA. This article uses backtests only. It contains no forward-account figures...

Weekend Gaps and Drawdown Protection — When the Market Opens Above Your Stop Product link: https://www.mql5.com/en/ market/product/191385 Drawdown protection is designed to act when losses reach a configured threshold...

AETHERIS Signal Studio is not another trading robot. It is a platform: you design your own trading signals on a panel in the chart and run as many of them as you want, side by side, on one MetaTrader 5 account. Almost every Expert Advisor works the same way...

Breakout EA sounds like one category. In practice, the label can hide completely different decisions: what creates the level, how price must cross it, whether a retest is required, how false breaks are filtered and what happens after entry...

Price has turned at your line, but that alone does not show whether it is a reversal or a bounce. Two chart checks help you judge the level before entry...

We took inspiration from Gold Reaper, kept the ideas we valued most, and developed Sycz Gold Breakout Master with one goal: refine those ideas and make them better...

This post carries the Nasdaq 100 settings file for Spring Break. The file is attached at the bottom of the post. It also states exactly what lot size the published results were run at, because that is not the size this file is set to. The file is set to 0.1 lots...

Beyond Price Action: How Modern Econophysics Validates the iVISTscalp5 Temporal Framework In traditional technical analysis, time serves merely as a passive X-axis used to plot historical price changes...

How to Run MT Radar on Your Computer Download MT Radar from the MQL5 Market. Open your terminal and log in to your MQL5.community account. In the Navigator window, open the Market folder and find the MT Radar for MT4 or MT Radar for MT5 Expert Advisor, depending on your terminal version...

Casa Tupka Xauusd - Algorithmic Trading System Casa Tupka Xauusd is an automated algorithmic trading system developed for the MetaTrader 5 platform. This expert advisor executes trades by analyzing market momentum, volatility, and trend reversals...

What Structure Ledger is Structure Ledger is a free indicator that draws market structure on the chart it is attached to: confirmed swing highs and lows, break of structure (BOS), change of character (CHoCH), and bands over clusters of equal highs (EQH) and equal lows (EQL), the places where liqu...

Trading time often matters more than the signal itself. The same pattern behaves differently in a quiet hour and in the first minutes of the US session. Here is how I look at the New York open through the PO3 model and SMT divergence. This describes a model. It is not a signal and not a guarantee...

Your strategy chooses the trades, but your firm's rulebook keeps the account alive. Before paying for an EA or a challenge, check EA use, news trading, account type and loss limits. An EA does not know your firm's rules unless you check them for it. Why do good trades still break the rules...

XAUUSD punishes generic settings. Gold can compress quietly, accelerate around macro events and travel far enough to make a fixed stop or grid interval behave very differently from the same number on a major currency pair...

In one minute Gold Beaver trades gold. Ethereum Beast trades Ethereum (ETH). They do not move together. We set every robot to the same risk: about 15% maximum drawdown. Combo Safe + Ethereum Beast: $10,000 became $51.4 million (x5,136) . Combo Safe alone: $2.4 million (x238...

This is the third post in my series on the seven trading sins behind my blown accounts. The first two were Wrath, the revenge trade, and Lust, meddling with an EA. If I had to pick the two sins that cost me the most, it would be Wrath and this one. What it looked like? A trade went against me...

Which FX Pairs Do Published Algo Specifications Name Most? By Cree Lawson / Prismatic Algos When choosing a symbol for a new EA, it helps to know what other builders describe . It is equally important not to confuse that count with a proven edge...

20 October 2026 · Technical guide · AI-assisted writing, checked against source and a reproducible calculation Your account is up, but one EA still has an open loss...