Description
OVERVIEW
Gold Edge is an automated cBot for XAUUSD (Gold) built around market structure. It detects swing highs and swing lows, reads the resulting structure, and only trades when its risk rules are satisfied.
STRATEGY
Instrument: XAUUSD
Chart timeframe: M1
Approach: market structure / swing-point based
Entries: second trigger of an orderblock
Exits: stop loss placed beyond the detected structure point plus a small buffer, with take profit set to meet the Minimum Risk/Reward of 1.1
Direction: long and short
RISK MANAGEMENT
- Risk per trade: percentage of account balance (default 2%, adjustable)
- Stop loss: placed from the detected structure, plus a configurable buffer
- Minimum stop-loss distance: very tight stops are rejected (default 4 pips)
- Minimum risk/reward: trades below the threshold are skipped (default 1.1)
- Max open positions: 1 (default), so no stacking or averaging down
- No martingale, no grid
KEY PARAMETERS OR SETTINGS (defaults used in the backtest)
- Swing Detection Length (5): [number of bars on each side used to confirm a swing high/low]. Higher values give fewer, slower-confirming swings.
- Stop Loss Buffer, Pips (1): extra distance added beyond the structure point when placing the stop loss.
- Minimum Risk/Reward Ratio (1.1): minimum reward-to-risk required to take a trade.
- Risk Per Trade, % of Balance (2): percent of account balance risked per trade.
- Max Open Positions (1): maximum simultaneous trades.
- Minimum SL Distance, Pips (4): the smallest stop-loss distance the bot will accept.
Note: pip size for XAUUSD varies by broker, so check yours.
BACKTEST
- Symbol / timeframe: XAUUSD, M1
- Period: 1 Mar 2014 to 30 Sep 2026
- Data: [broker/source], [tick / M1 bar data]
- Starting balance: 10,000 USD
- Leverage: [e.g. 1:500]
- Spread: fixed at 0.1
- Commission: 0 (results vary with your broker's commissions)
- Settings: all parameters at the defaults listed above
- Net profit: 68,086.73 (+681%)
- Total trades: 1,771; winning trades: 906 (about 51%)
- Profit factor: 1.13
- Max equity drawdown: 36.89% (max balance drawdown 35.59%)
- Largest losing trade: 2,840.15; longest losing streak: 12 trades
- Long trades: net +73,314.06, PF 1.25 (1,005 trades)
- Swap cost over the period: -1,482.50
BEST SUITED FOR
Traders who are comfortable with the drawdowns of a Gold strategy, can run a cBot continuously (cTrader Cloud is supported), and understand that risk per trade drives both returns and drawdown. Lower Risk % for smaller drawdowns.
IMPORTANT NOTES
- Gold is volatile and spreads widen around news. Use a low-spread broker.
- Backtests are not a guarantee of future results. Test on a demo account first.
- Trading leveraged products carries a high risk of loss.
