Bullion Horizon trades gold on the H1 chart. Every hour, on the closed bar, it scores four readings and only acts when enough of them agree. As shipped it runs a gold grid: the first ticket opens on the signal, further tickets are added at fixed steps against the move, and the whole side is closed together at a fixed basket profit. Two single-ticket presets with a hard stop and a hard target are built in for anyone who wants no grid at all.

HOW IT TRADES

Four readings are taken on the last closed H1 bar, each worth −1, 0 or +1:

• Trend: close above the 20-bar average, which is above the 50-bar average (or the mirror for sells).

• RSI: below the oversold level for buys, above the overbought level for sells (35 and 65 as shipped).

• Cycle: the close against the close 20 bars back.

• Price action: higher highs with higher lows, or lower highs with lower lows.

The sum is compared with Minimum Confluence Score (2 as shipped; the single-ticket presets ask for 3). An optional ATR floor skips quiet bars; a spread cap skips bars quoted too wide.

THREE RISK MODES

• Medium Risk (shipped): a grid of up to 8 tickets per side. The first ticket opens on the signal at 0.01 lot; every 500 points against it (5.00 on a two-decimal gold quote) another ticket is added, each 0.01 lot larger than the last, and the whole side closes together when its open profit reaches 100 account units. High Risk runs the same grid under its own label.

• Low Risk: one ticket at a time with a hard stop and a hard target, sized from Risk Percent and the stop distance. An optional recovery ladder enlarges the next ticket after a stop, a limited number of times.

A basket stop in percent of balance, a basket profit stop and a timed daily close are available in every mode.

WHAT A GRID CAN DO

A grid adds to a side that is losing. In a move that keeps going against the ladder the open loss grows with every ticket, and with enough tickets and leverage it can reach the margin call; the shipped configuration carries no basket stop, exactly as the author runs it. Set Basket Stop to your own tolerance, size the account so that the published equity drawdown stays affordable, and read the risk disclosure before trading.

NEWS FILTER AND TRADING HOURS

With the news filter on, nothing new is opened from 60 minutes before to 60 minutes after a high-impact USD or EUR event, read from a public economic calendar through cTrader's own networking service; while the calendar cannot be read, a fixed pattern of the usual release times is used. Each weekday has its own trading window (08:00 to 22:00 as shipped, Friday until 20:00), in the clock you choose: your computer's, the server's, or a fixed offset.

DASHBOARD

A panel on the chart shows the time, symbol and spread, the risk mode, the preset in use and the direction, the ticket count per side and the average entries, open profit, drawdown, balance and equity, the last signal with its four scores, the status (trading active, system disabled, outside trading hours, news window, spread too high) and the next news event. Optional weekly levels draw the previous week's pivot, two resistances and two supports.

KEY SETTINGS

Select Risk, Orders Max, Orders Step, Orders Profit, Lots and Lots Step (the grid), Risk Percent, Fixed Lot, Stop Loss and Take Profit (the single ticket), Minimum Confluence Score, RSI levels, Max Spread, Trading (the symbol list, exactly as your broker spells the names), Magic Number (the label of every position), Trailing Stop, Basket Stop. Every one of the 67 parameters is documented.

EIGHT PRESETS

Gold Grid Default (the shipped values), Low Drawdown Gold H1, Low Risk Gold H1, Conservative, Prop Firm No Grid, Balanced Medium Risk, Optimized Backtest, Aggressive High Risk — built into the cBot: the first parameter chooses one, Custom keeps your own values, and the dashboard shows which one runs. Two of them size ten percent of equity on a 50-point stop and cannot be margined on 10,000 USD; they are documented as such.

PROP FIRM ACCOUNTS

Built to run on funded and challenge accounts as well as your own: the Prop Firm No Grid preset trades one ticket at a time at a fixed lot, FIFO, with a hard stop and a hard target and no grid, and the weekday trading windows, the news filter and the timed daily close keep the cBot inside the rules most firms publish. Check your firm's rules on grids, hedging and news trading before choosing a grid preset.

RECOMMENDED SYMBOL, TIMEFRAME, BALANCE

XAUUSD (or your broker's spelling of it), H1, a hedging account with leverage 1:100 or higher, and a balance of at least the recommended minimum stated with the backtest: three times the equity drawdown it showed on 10,000 USD.

BACKTEST ASSUMPTIONS

The published figures are cTrader's own backtest of the shipped configuration on IC Markets real tick data, XAUUSD H1, 10,000 USD, leverage 1:100, commission 27.5 USD per million USD of volume, no slippage, from 27 February 2026 to 21 September 2026; a backtester cannot apply the news filter. A backtest holds only for its own period, data, balance and leverage — run your own on your broker's data before trading.

ONE-TIME OR MONTHLY

Buy once for every update of version 2, or subscribe monthly and stop whenever you like: the monthly plan is the way to run the cBot on your own account before deciding.

TECHNICAL NOTES

No access rights required. Hedging account needed for the grid modes. Runs on cTrader Desktop and Web; keep the platform running, or use a VPS. Debug Log writes every signal and order attempt to the instance log for support.

SUPPORT

Questions go to the discussion on this page; please attach the instance log and your parameter values.

Trading leveraged products involves risk of loss; backtest results are hypothetical and past performance does not indicate future results.