Funding Gold Shield Cbot is a professional automated trading system designed for trading Gold (XAUUSD) on the 4-hour (H4) timeframe using the cTrader platform. Developed with C# and the Spotware cAlgo API, it employs a trend-following strategy combined with strict institutional risk management, making it suitable for personal accounts and prop firm challenges.

Key features include a prop-firm friendly risk architecture with configurable daily and total drawdown limits that automatically restrict trading upon reaching loss thresholds. The bot avoids martingale, grid, or averaging down strategies, calculating position sizes based on a fixed percentage of account balance and stop loss distance, while respecting broker volume constraints.

Its intelligent signal engine uses triple EMA alignment (fast, medium, slow) to trade in the dominant trend direction and ATR-based volatility measures to dynamically adjust stop loss and take profit levels. All trade signals are generated exclusively on closed H4 bars to prevent false entries.

Trade management tools include break-even and trailing stops that only move stops favorably, session filters to avoid illiquid periods, real-time spread filters, and limits on concurrent positions. The bot features comprehensive error handling with full logging and requires no special machine permissions.

Recommended trading hours cover London and New York sessions (07:00–20:00 UTC). It is intended for traders seeking systematic gold exposure with transparent, auditable trade decisions and strict drawdown compliance.