Money GOLD EA — XAUUSD DCA Grid on H1 with 3.17 Profit Factor

Money GOLD EA trades XAUUSD exclusively on the H1 timeframe using a dual-direction DCA grid — opening buy and sell ladders simultaneously with fixed lot increments as price moves against position.

A 4-month backtest on $1,000 capital shows a 3.17 profit factor and 80.49% win rate at 9.98% peak drawdown.

Key Benefits

• ✅ Dual-Direction Grid: Runs buy and sell DCA ladders simultaneously — captures moves in either direction, but correlated exposure doubles when both sides compound together during range breakouts.
• ✅ Consistent Win Rate: 80%+ win rate across both long and short sides of documented tests — achieved by closing individual legs at small targets while letting losers accumulate into the grid basket.
• ✅ Controlled Lot Scaling: Grid increments by 0.02 lots per step with 20-point spacing — predictable position sizing that limits per-step exposure but compounds rapidly beyond 5 open positions.
• ✅ XAUUSD-Only Focus: Built and tested exclusively on Gold, where volatility and spread characteristics suit the 20-point step spacing — transferring to forex pairs is untested and unsupported.

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Money GOLD Performance

Three backtest runs across overlapping August–December 2025 periods, each on different starting capital, are documented below. No live verified account exists for this EA.

Primary test: $1,000 starting capital, August 4 – December 8, 2025 — 54,738 trades, 3.17 profit factor, 80.49% win rate, 9.98% peak drawdown.

Secondary test: $200 starting capital, September 1 – November 28, 2025 — 43,818 trades, 3.08 profit factor, 80.53% win rate, 12.18% peak drawdown.

Third test: $500 starting capital, August 4 – November 28, 2025 — 49,239 trades, 3.01 profit factor, 80.39% win rate, 9.60% peak drawdown.

Performance Snapshot

The grid compounds when Gold sustains a directional move beyond 5 DCA steps — at that point, unrealized loss on the opposing basket grows faster than realized profit from closed winning legs. This is a structural characteristic of dual-direction DCA, not a misconfiguration: it cannot be removed, only sized for by controlling starting lot and step count.

Reducing Target_TiaLenh from 5 to 3 limits the basket depth before the EA closes and resets — the documented tests do not provide a before/after drawdown comparison at this setting, so the outcome requires your own demo validation.

All three backtests used the “Control points” modeling method — the MT4 tester itself flags this as a crude approximation. Spread, slippage, and tick-level price behavior are not modeled; the figures above cannot confirm how the EA performs on a live account with real execution costs.

These figures come from Control-points backtests only — live slippage, real spread on XAUUSD, and execution latency are not reflected.

How Money GOLD Works

Mechanism: Money GOLD exploits mean-reversion tendencies on XAUUSD H1 by placing two independent DCA grids — one long, one short — simultaneously. Each grid adds to its position at fixed 20-point intervals, anticipating that Gold will retrace to a profitable exit before the grid exhausts its depth. The H1 timeframe filters out intraday noise while keeping position turnover high enough to compound returns across hundreds of trades per month.

Signal Trigger: Entry conditions are not publicly documented. The EA opens both a buy and sell position at session start, then layers additional lots every 20 points as price moves against either side — no independent filter or indicator trigger is confirmed.

Position Close: Each grid closes when the basket reaches its target profit threshold (Target_TiaLenh set to 5 in tested configuration). Both the winning and losing legs close together at the target — individual trades are not closed in isolation.

Exposure Limits: Maximum grid depth is 5 positions per direction (Target_TiaLenh_Buy / Sell = 5). Starting lot is 0.01, scaling by 0.02 per step — reaching a maximum of 0.09 lots on the fifth position. No equity stop-loss or drawdown circuit breaker is documented in the parameter set.

✅ Optimal conditions: Ranging Gold market with frequent reversals within 80–100 point bands; moderate volatility where the 20-point grid fills without gapping through multiple levels simultaneously.

⚠️ Avoid when: Gold is in a sustained macro trend (100+ point directional moves without retracement) — the losing-direction basket compounds without a close trigger while realized profit on the winning side cannot offset it. News events that gap price through multiple grid levels simultaneously create instantaneous multi-level exposure.

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Recommended Settings

Who Should Use Money GOLD EA

• ✅ Running MT4 on a VPS with an ECN broker offering XAUUSD spreads below 30 points — grid management requires uninterrupted connectivity.
• ✅ Starting with $1,000+ — the $200 minimum is technically functional but produced 12.18% peak drawdown in the shortest test period; lower capital reduces the buffer before margin pressure.
• ✅ Comfortable sizing for structural risk — the dual-direction DCA cannot be made trend-safe through settings alone; you accept that sustained Gold trends beyond 5 grid steps create unhedged exposure.
• ✅ Willing to run 60–90 days on demo first — Control-points backtests cannot validate live execution behavior; demo testing on your specific broker is the only way to assess real spread and slippage impact.

Performance documented with: MT4 demo account, ICMarkets SC server, H1 XAUUSD, $200–$1,000 starting capital.

Product Download Package Includes

• ✅ Experts:
  • Money GOLD v1.0_fix.ex4
• ✅ Setfiles:
  • GOLD Test Set_Min$100.set

The download link will be sent to your email immediately after purchase, along with a video tutorial on how to install it.

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