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- Net profit
- +116.4%
- Profit factor
- 1.15
- Max drawdown
- 27.9%
Simulated, Jan 2020 – Sep 2026
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Golden Box Breakout
A time-window range breakout for gold. One trade idea per day, a hard stop on every position.
- Net profit
- +59.3%
- $5,928 on $10,000
- Profit factor
- 1.26
- Gross profit ÷ gross loss
- Max drawdown
- 8.1%
- Peak-to-trough equity
- Trades
- 1,726
- 51.6% winners
Historical simulation: XAUUSD H1, Jan 2020 to Sep 2026, 10,000 USD start. Not indicative of future results.
Overview
What Golden Box Breakout does
Golden Box Breakout measures the high and low of a fixed early-session window on XAUUSD, places a Buy Stop above the box and a Sell Stop below it, and trades whichever side breaks first. Everything is closed at a fixed time each day, so nothing is held overnight.
- No martingale, grid or averaging.
- No DLLs, no external files, no web connections.
- Strategy
- Range breakout
- Symbol
- XAUUSD (Gold)
- Timeframe
- H1
- Platform
- MetaTrader 5
- Minimum balance
- About $1,000
- Sold via
- MQL5 Market
How it works
From signal to exit
Measure the box
Each day the EA records the highest and lowest price inside a fixed server-time window (03:05 to 06:05 by default) and draws the box on the chart.
Place the stops
When the window closes it places a Buy Stop at the box high and a Sell Stop at the box low. If price has already moved through an edge, it enters that side at market.
Trade the first break
Whichever side breaks first is traded. In the default single-trade mode the opposite order is cancelled the moment one side fills.
Finish flat
At a fixed time (18:55 by default) every pending order is deleted and every open position is closed. Nothing is carried overnight.
In MetaTrader 5
Features and protections
What is built in
Hard stop loss on every position
Set as a percentage of the entry price (1.0% by default), so it adapts to the price level of gold automatically.
Flexible risk sizing
Risk a percentage of balance, a fixed money amount, or a fixed lot, with a maximum-lot cap that applies in every mode.
Prop-firm consistency guard
Optional. Tracks every day's result and stops trading for the day before the best day can exceed the percentage your firm allows.
Checked before every order
Volume, free margin, broker stop level and pending-order limits are validated, so the server is never sent an order it would reject.
Restart-safe
After a terminal or VPS restart it resumes the day where it stopped and never places duplicate orders.
Optional extras, off by default
Safe pyramiding (up to 3 adds) and small randomisation of entry time, stop distance, lot size and close time.
Backtest
How it behaved in the test
Historical simulations from the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester. The test conditions are listed with each result so you can reproduce them.
- Symbol
- XAUUSD H1
- Period
- Jan 2020 to Sep 2026
- Start balance
- $10,000
- Model
- 1-minute OHLC
- History quality
- 86%
- Price data
- Fusion Markets price history (low spread)
- Net profit
- +59.3%
- $5,928 on $10,000
- Profit factor
- 1.26
- Gross profit ÷ gross loss
- Max drawdown
- 8.1%
- Peak-to-trough equity
- Trades
- 1,726
- 51.6% winners
| Year | Return |
|---|---|
| 2020 | +5.7% |
| 2021 | +14.4% |
| 2022 | +3.4% |
| 2023 | −4.4% |
| 2024 | +9.6% |
| 2025 | +9.0% |
| 2026* | +11.5% |
Trading foreign exchange, metals and cryptocurrencies on margin carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for everyone. Backtested and hypothetical results are not a guarantee of future performance. Read the full risk disclosure.
Requirements
Before you install
- Symbol
- XAUUSD (gold)
- Timeframe
- Any chart timeframe. The EA reads 1-minute data internally; H1 is convenient.
- Platform
- MetaTrader 5
- Broker
- A low-spread gold account. We recommend Fusion Markets (Zero account), the broker this robot was tested on. Wide spreads and high commissions reduce results.
- Server time
- Defaults assume a GMT+2 / GMT+3 server. Shift the box and close times if yours differs.
- Minimum balance
- About $1,000 for the 0.01 lot minimum. Below about $9,000 the minimum lot risks more than 0.5% of balance.
- Hosting
- A VPS is recommended so the EA sees the box window and the daily close every day.
Inputs
Parameters
Range time
Range start and end hour and minute: the server-time window that forms the box.
Session close
Daily time at which orders are deleted and positions are closed.
Risk
Risk mode (% of balance, fixed money, fixed lot), risk value, stop-loss %, maximum-lot cap, what to do when risk is below the broker's minimum lot, optional take profit as a multiple of the box.
Prop-firm consistency rule
Enable, best-day maximum % of total profit, net or profitable-days basis, minimum daily cap, optional fixed daily cap, alert level, seed values for accounts with history.
Pyramiding and randomisation
Enable, trigger distance, number of adds, add size multiplier; entry delay, lot variance, stop buffer, close-time variance.
Set files and a PDF user guide are provided to buyers.
Questions
Frequently asked
Can I try it before buying?
Yes. Every product on the MQL5 Market has a free demo you can run in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester. Run your own backtest on your broker's data first.
Does it work on prop-firm accounts?
It includes an optional consistency-rule guard for firms that limit the best trading day as a share of total profit. You set the percentage your firm uses. Always check your firm's rules and test on a demo account first.
Which broker and server time should I use?
We recommend Fusion Markets, the broker this robot was tested on (see the recommended-broker box on this page). Any low-spread gold account can work. The default times assume a GMT+2/GMT+3 server, which is what Fusion Markets uses. For a GMT+0 server, shift the box and close times by the difference; a ready set file is available to buyers.
Are set files and a guide included?
Set files and a PDF user guide are available to buyers through the product's Comments section and MQL5 private messages.
Is the strategy guaranteed to be profitable?
No. No strategy is. The figures shown are historical simulations and will differ from live results.
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