Ember Fuse trades gold on the H1 chart. It computes its own SuperTrend from the last 500 closed one-hour bars and waits for the trend to turn. When the closed bars flip from down to up it starts a buy series; a flip from up to down starts a sell series. A series that moves against it is averaged with a grid, and every position of the series closes together at one target above (buys) or below (sells) the average entry.

HOW IT TRADES

• Signal: SuperTrend with ATR bands (period 44, multiplier 2.5, mid price over 10 bars) on H1. The signal stays valid for the whole hour after the flip.

• First position: 0.02 lot.

• Grid: while the price moves against the series, a new position opens each time it is 250 points (2.50 on a two-decimal gold quote) beyond the series' most extreme entry; the 7th position needs 240 points and the 8th 288. Each grid position is 1.5 times the previous one, rounded to the lot step: 0.02, 0.03, 0.05, 0.08, 0.12, 0.18, 0.27, 0.41.

• Exit: the whole series closes when the price is 300 points (3.00) beyond its lot-weighted average entry. The target is watched by the cBot on every tick, not placed at the broker.

• Limits: at most 8 positions at once, buys and sells counted together. No position carries a stop loss in the shipped preset; a held series stays open until its target is reached.

• Hours: new positions (first and grid) only from 05:00 to 10:59 on the broker clock most gold quotes use (UTC+2, UTC+3 while New York is on daylight time), that is the end of the Asian session and the London open. Targets are watched around the clock.

• Both directions: a buy series and a sell series may run at the same time on a hedging account.

WHAT THE GRID MEANS

Adding larger positions against a losing series lets it close with a smaller move back, and it also makes the open loss grow faster while the move continues. With the shipped preset a full series of 8 positions holds 1.16 lots, and it has no stop: the equity drawdown shown with the backtest comes from these held series. Size the account for that drawdown, and read the risk disclosure before trading.

BUILT-IN PRESETS

The first parameter chooses the configuration. Gold H1 Early Session is the shipped panel and the published backtest. Gold H1 Early Session + pair close uses the same entries and adds a pair close for long series (its most profitable and its least profitable position close together once their combined result is positive enough), up to 10 positions and wider grid steps; it has no stop either. Custom keeps whatever you type into the panel. Gold quotes with two or three decimals are handled automatically.

NEWS FILTER

With the news filter on, nothing new is opened from 15 minutes before to 30 minutes after high- and medium-impact events of the major currencies, 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. Event lines and a countdown list of the next events can be shown on the chart.

DASHBOARD

A panel on the chart shows the time, the symbol and spread, each side's positions and open result, the total, balance, equity and drawdown, with buttons to switch buy series, sell series and new series on or off and to close everything. While positions are open, the total result is shown on a coloured plate next to the panel.

KEY SETTINGS

SuperTrend timeframe, period, multiplier and band type, start lot or margin-based lot, lot multiplier and maximum lot, grid distances, maximum positions, series target and series stop, stop and target per position, trailing exit (virtual or at the broker), close on the opposite signal, pair close, spread cap, pause between orders, trading hours with a selectable clock, magic number. Every one of the 74 parameters is documented.

RECOMMENDED SYMBOL, TIMEFRAME, BALANCE

XAUUSD (or your broker's spelling of it), H1, a hedging account, and at least 4,500 USD for the shipped 0.02 lot. On a smaller account lower the start lot and run your own backtest first.

BACKTEST ASSUMPTIONS

The published figures are cTrader's own backtest of the shipped configuration (Gold H1 Early Session) on IC Markets real tick data, XAUUSD H1, 10,000 USD, leverage 1:100, commission 27.5 USD per million USD of volume, from 1 January 2026 to 30 September 2026; a backtester cannot apply the news filter. The same settings on Blueberry demo tick data over the same dates are shown in the gallery. A backtest holds only for its own period, data, balance and leverage; run your own on your broker's data before trading.

ONE-TIME PURCHASE

Buy once and receive every update of version 1 at no further cost; the cTrader Store's 14-day money-back period covers the purchase.

TECHNICAL NOTES

No access rights required. A hedging account is needed; a netting account is refused at start. Runs on cTrader Desktop and Web; the series target is watched by the cBot, so keep the platform running while positions are open, or use a VPS. Debug log writes every order and exit 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.