ZoneEngine Trader is a fully automated smart-money-concepts cBot for the m5 period. It hunts liquidity sweeps: when price wicks through a recent swing high or low (where stop orders cluster) and snaps back with a strong displacement candle that breaks structure, the bot places a single limit order at the midpoint of the highest-quality zone left behind by that move — an inversion breaker, breaker block, or fair value gap — with the stop beyond the sweep wick and a fixed reward-to-risk take profit.

How it manages risk

• Stop loss and take profit are attached to every order at placement — no position can ever run unprotected, and a built-in failsafe closes any position found without a stop.
• Position size is calculated from a fixed percentage of balance, bounded by a minimum stop distance and a hard maximum lot cap.
• A daily drawdown limiter (default 4%, hard-capped at 5%) closes all positions, cancels pending orders, and halts trading for the rest of the day if equity falls below the limit — suitable for prop-firm rule sets.
• One position at a time; unfilled limit orders expire automatically.

Details

• Strategy type: Liquidity-sweep reversal (smart money concepts / price action)
• Target symbols & periods: XAUUSD and BTCUSD on m5 (works on any symbol; defaults tuned on these two)
• Trading use case: fully automated intraday mean-reversion after stop runs; optional session (killzone) time filter for forex pairs
• Suggested leverage: 1:100 or higher
• Suggested account size: $1,000+ (or equivalent)
• Default settings: 1% risk per trade, 2:1 reward-to-risk, max 1 lot, 4% daily drawdown limit (see parameters screenshot)
• Backtesting: 12-month results on XAUUSD and BTCUSD included (see backtesting screenshots; settings shown allow full reproduction)

Every market regime is different and no strategy wins every month — backtests included in the gallery show both winning and losing months so you can judge the strategy's real character. Test on a demo account first.

Trading involves risk. Past performance does not guarantee future results.