ECFX XAU Obsidian

ECFX XAU Obsidian is a multi-engine portfolio cBot developed specifically for trading gold on the M5 chart. It combines the XAU25 portfolio architecture, the AurumTwelve12 engine, Sovereign strategy components and multi-horizon Trend Complement logic within one coordinated trading and risk-management framework.

Rather than relying on one entry pattern, Obsidian continuously evaluates several independently managed approaches. These include trend-following, volatility breakouts, momentum continuation, channel behaviour, controlled pullbacks and session-based opportunities.

MULTI-ENGINE ARCHITECTURE

The portfolio contains several strategy families with separate signals, order labels, position tracking and protection rules:

• XAU25 portfolio logic coordinates the core gold-trading components and shared portfolio protections.

• Trend Complement monitors multi-horizon breakout zones, including 48-hour and 72-hour structures.

• Sovereign operates a configurable group of independently controlled gold strategies.

• AurumTwelve12 contributes twelve specialised momentum, channel, breakout, reversal and pullback modules.

Each engine can evaluate the market independently while remaining subject to the portfolio’s exposure, margin and drawdown controls. Unique order and position labels allow Obsidian-owned exposure to be identified separately from manual trades and other cBots.

MARKET ANALYSIS AND ENTRY FILTERING

Obsidian uses EMA and ATR calculations to evaluate trend direction, volatility and adaptive entry distance. Depending on the active engine, it can assess:

• Higher-timeframe trend and EMA alignment

• ATR-based market volatility

• Multi-horizon support, resistance and breakout zones

• Momentum and candle-body confirmation

• Channel expansion and rejection behaviour

• Pullback and price-reclaim opportunities

• Session and broker-hour conditions

• Spread and margin availability

• Existing same-direction and portfolio exposure

• Recent market-regime quality

Both buy and sell setups are supported. Individual directions and strategy components can be enabled or disabled through the cBot parameters.

Entry-quality gates help reduce unsuitable trades during selected broker hours, unfavourable spread conditions, weak market structure or conflicting portfolio exposure. These filters are designed to improve selectivity, but they cannot eliminate losses or guarantee that every unsuitable market condition will be avoided.

TRADE MANAGEMENT

Protective management varies between the individual engines and may include:

• Initial ATR-based or strategy-specific stop losses

• Emergency take-profit protection

• Break-even activation and profit locking

• ATR-based trailing protection

• Minimum trailing-step controls

• Maximum holding-time limits

• Pending-order expiration

• Session-end and Friday protection

• Owned pending-order cancellation when the cBot is stopped

Protective prices are normalised for the broker’s symbol specifications, minimum stop distance and trading-volume requirements.

RISK AND EXPOSURE MANAGEMENT

Obsidian applies several layers of risk control. These protections monitor the individual strategy, engine, portfolio and account equity before allowing additional exposure.

The standard profile includes:

• XAU25 portfolio daily equity-loss guard: 1.00%

• XAU25 portfolio maximum equity drawdown guard: 6.00%

• Trend Complement risk budget: 0.20% per zone

• Trend Complement maximum open positions: 2

• Trend Complement maximum size: 1.00 lot per zone

• Trend Complement daily equity-loss guard: 1.00%

• Sovereign maximum risk: 0.20% per enabled strategy

• Sovereign maximum equity drawdown setting: 6.00%

• Sovereign maximum size: 1.00 lot per strategy

• AurumTwelve12 daily loss lock: 2.70%

• AurumTwelve12 hard equity drawdown setting: 7.50%

• AurumTwelve12 base size: 0.01 lots at the USD 50,000 reference balance

• AurumTwelve12 maximum scaled size: 0.10 lots

• AurumTwelve12 maximum exposure: 3 slots

• AurumTwelve12 maximum same-direction exposure: 2 positions

Additional controls include margin-usage limits, balance-based sizing, maximum-volume caps, duplicate-entry controls, same-direction exposure limits, daily trade limits, equity drawdown brakes and reduced-risk recovery modes.

Where several protections apply simultaneously, the stricter applicable restriction may prevent new entries or reduce trading size. Portfolio risk locks are configured to manage Obsidian-owned exposure. Account-wide cutoff closing remains disabled by default so unrelated manual trades and other cBots are not intentionally closed.

SYMBOL AND ACCOUNT REQUIREMENTS

ECFX XAU Obsidian is intended for gold symbols containing XAU or GOLD. Examples include:

• XAUUSD

• XAUUSD.P

• GOLD

• Broker-prefixed or broker-suffixed gold symbols

Recommended chart period: M5

A hedging account is required under the standard configuration. Broker contract specifications differ substantially between gold symbols, so users must verify the contract size, minimum volume, volume step, tick size, spread, commission, swap, stop distance and margin requirements before trading.

A starting balance of USD 5,000 or more is suggested, depending on the broker’s gold contract and the selected risk parameters. This is not a guarantee that a particular balance is suitable. Leverage availability is controlled by the broker and local regulation.

The cBot should always be tested using the intended broker’s historical data and then operated on a demo account before real-money use.

PLATFORM ACCESS AND INTERFACE

ECFX XAU Obsidian runs with AccessRights.None inside the cTrader sandbox. It does not require unrestricted Full Access and does not make external file, network, shell, process or device calls.

The chart interface includes:

• An Obsidian-themed statistics and status panel

• Silver hollow bullish candles

• Crimson bearish candles

• Optional stop-loss and take-profit overlays

• Optional chart trade markers and text

• Engine, risk and execution-status information

The current package is configured to permit order placement after the user deliberately starts the cBot. Dedicated Enable Trading and Allow Real-Time Orders parameters remain available as master execution controls.

BACKTEST CONTEXT

The published BlackBull backtest used XAUUSD.P on M5 from 9 August 2023 through 31 August 2026 with USD 50,000 starting capital.

The cTrader report recorded 5,069 completed trades, a profit factor of 1.39 and maximum balance drawdown of 9.22%. The run’s ending equity included one position that remained open at the final backtest boundary.

These results apply only to that historical simulation, broker data, symbol specification, testing period and parameter configuration. They do not represent guaranteed future performance.

IMPORTANT RISK NOTICE

Trading frequency, position size, profit, drawdown and order execution will vary according to the broker, symbol contract, spread, commission, swap, slippage, leverage, market conditions, selected parameters and available price history.

No profit level, trading frequency, maximum loss or drawdown limit is guaranteed. Protective controls can reduce risk but cannot remove the possibility of loss, execution failure, market gaps or losses exceeding an intended threshold.

Trading leveraged products involves substantial risk. Past performance and backtesting results do not guarantee future results. Users remain responsible for selecting appropriate settings and deciding whether the cBot is suitable for their circumstances.