Spreads and execution

Gold spreads, slippage, swap and commission — the costs that decide whether a strategy survives live.

5 articles on this topic

  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

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