EA Trading

Expert advisor design, MQL5 risk plumbing, setfile discipline and backtest protocols that survive live gold spreads.

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EA Trading

5 articles · last post 03 Nov 2026 20:34 UTC

  1. EA Trading

    XAUUSD EA Orders: Filling Modes, 10030 and Stops Newest

    Most gold EAs fail on the order request, not the entry rule: filling modes that return 10030, stops-level rejections, freeze zones, requote loops, and the minimum…

    ·6 min read
  2. EA Trading

    Prop-Firm Gold EAs Fail on the Reset, Not the Stop

    A prop firm measures the daily loss on equity from a balance taken at midnight, ratchets the max-loss floor at that same instant, and charges a…

    ·6 min read
  3. EA Trading

    Five Numbers That Decide If a Gold EA Survives Its Broker

    Spread, commission, swap, slippage and rollover widening all come out of the same 100-ounce contract. A worked cost model for gold EAs, and a thirty-day audit…

    ·7 min read
  4. EA Trading

    MT5 XAUUSD EAs: The Cost Stack That Decides Survival — Spread, Slippage, Swap

    A gold EA is priced by its costs, not its entry rule: what a point is worth on XAUUSD, how to read spread, slippage, commission and…

    ·6 min read
  5. EA Trading

    MT5 XAUUSD EAs: Sizing, Regime Gates and Setfile Risk

    A practical framework for gold EAs: ATR-normalized position sizing in MQL5, volatility regime gates, group-stop exit geometry, and the backtest protocol that stops a tuned setfile…

    ·6 min read

Method

Written before the move, graded after it

Every article names its levels up front and states what would prove it wrong. Signals carry an entry, a stop and at least one target with the structure behind them. Macro articles map a data print to specific prices. EA articles carry code, not vibes.

  • Levels, not opinions. If a number appears, it came from this session's data.
  • Invalidation is mandatory. A level that would kill the idea is stated before entry.
  • Risk first. Stop distance sets position size — never the reverse.