Let GoldenBoyFX trade gold, US indices and USDJPY for you, or trade yourself while it guards your daily loss, drawdown and stops.
Trading involves risk. Backtest results do not guarantee future results.
You didn't fail your challenge because your strategy was bad. You failed because of one day, one missing stop, one trade that was too big.
v1.07 marks a short price range at a fixed New York time and trades the breakout once a day. The stop sits at the other side of the range. From +1R the stop moves to entry, then trails 1R behind price, and the trade closes at a set time.
| Instrument | Setup (New York time) | Test period | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XAUUSD gold | 08:00–08:15 range, entries to 10:15, exit 13:30 | 2019–2026 | Profit factor 1.57, every year positive, deepest drop about 18R | Main setup |
| NAS100 · US500 · US30 | 09:30–09:45 range, entries to 11:30, exit 15:00 | Aug 2022–2026 | Profit factor 1.13–1.25 Short history: the broker's index data starts in 2022. | Small edge |
| USDJPY | Asian range 19:00–02:00, entries to 05:00, exit 16:00 | 2011–2026 | Profit factor 1.12 with the moving stop, 1.17 holding to the exit; most profit from buys | Small edge |
| BTCUSD | Triple-EMA trend (default) or the 09:30 range breakout | 2021–2026 | Range breakout: profit factor 1.20; Triple-EMA drawdowns can exceed prop limits | Use with care |
| Other FX pairs, GER40, UK100 | London breakout or local open, at 0.25% risk | Tested | No edge found after costs | Not recommended |
Results in R (1R = the money risked per trade, 1% by default in a challenge). Tests use the broker's 15-minute price history with spreads, slippage and cautious fills included. MT5 real-tick tests of v1.07 are under way, and results vary by broker. Much of the gold edge comes on 08:30 New York data days; on funded accounts Solo closes before high-impact news by default, which skips those days. Past results do not guarantee future results.
Closes all positions before your firm's limit, with a safety buffer, then closes anything opened during the pause.
After 30 seconds without a stop-loss it alerts you, places one at your max risk, or closes the trade. You choose which.
Any trade risking more than your max per trade (1% by default), or more than the room left, gets flagged or closed.
Adds up every open stop. Over your total cap (3% by default) it warns you or closes the newest trades first.
Closes before the weekend and before high-impact news if your firm requires it. Crypto can stay open.
Every action reaches your phone, and the on-chart panel shows your room, total risk and riskiest trade.
One limit to know: MetaTrader 5 cannot stop you from clicking Buy. Guardian acts right after the order opens, usually within a second, and only while MT5 is running, so a VPS is recommended.
Only need the protection? Guardian mode is also available on its own: Guardian (free) and Guardian Pro. Both run alongside your trade panel or other EAs: they handle entries and trade management, the Guardian handles your limits.
The GoldenBoyFX gold trend setup: pullback entries in a confirmed trend on M15, stop at 2.5× ATR, no fixed target, trailing stop once 1.5R in profit. Every plan gets every signal, live. What changes is what comes with it and who places the trade.
Each signal reaches you the moment it triggers, with entry and stop, and the panel shows how past signals did, losers included.
Pop-up, sound and phone push with entry and stop, plus a lot size that fits your max risk per trade and the room left before your limits.
Auto mode trades gold itself, sized to your firm's limits: the 08:00 New York range breakout by default, or this trend setup if you choose it.
What to expect: the setup waits for a clean trend, so some days there is no signal and some days there are several. It keeps one signal open at a time and skips high-impact news and the weekend. In a 2020–2026 test the gold setup on its own, at all hours, was only just positive (profit factor 1.02) with losing years, and signals taken by hand can fill worse than the EA. The Guardian never places these trades for you. If many traders take the same signal, firms may see matching trades: check your firm's rules on following signals.
Everyone running Auto mode gets the same trades at the same time, and firms can see that. Some allow third-party EAs, some allow them only as a risk manager, some ban them. Guardian only manages risk, which is the most widely accepted use.
| Firm | Guardian / Guardian mode (risk manager) | Auto mode (EA trades for you) |
|---|---|---|
| FTMO | Allowed | Allowed, with a risk Other traders using the same EA can count against FTMO's capital-allocation limit, which can block a funded account. |
| FundedNext | Allowed under $50k Accounts of $50k and up must trade manually: ask support before using any EA. | Under $50k only Extra EA fee, and identical trades across accounts are not allowed. |
| The5ers | Not addressed Confirm with support. | Not allowed Third-party EAs with the same trades as other traders count as copy trading. |
| FundingPips | Allowed Third-party EAs are allowed as a trade or risk manager. | Not allowed |
Auto mode checks this for you: at The5ers, FundingPips and FundedNext accounts of $50k and up it places no trades by default and tells you to switch to Guardian mode. Summary of each firm's published rules, September 2026. Firms change rules often: read your firm's current policy before you buy or attach any EA.
Positive in the 2019–2026 gold test of the v1.07 range breakout, on the broker's 15-minute data with costs. MT5 real-tick checks are under way.
At most, per chart, at a tested New York time. The stop is set before entry and never removed.
Limits and state survive a VPS reboot, so a restart never resets your daily room.
Gold, a US index, USDJPY or BTC. The EA reads the symbol and loads its setup.
Set InpEaMode to Auto or Guardian. One setting switches everything.
Pick the preset or let it detect your firm, then demo-test before a paid challenge.
Short demos of Guardian, Guardian Pro and PropFirm Solo on XAUUSD. Backtests are labelled as backtests, and results vary.
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Start with the free Guardian if you trade by hand and want the daily and max-loss limits covered. Get Guardian Pro if you want stops placed for you and caps on risk per trade and total risk. Get PropFirm Solo if you also want the EA to trade.
The GoldenBoyFX gold trend setup, shown as signals: BUY or SELL XAUUSD, entry and stop, with no fixed target and a trailing stop once the trade is 1.5R in profit. Guardian shows every signal live, Guardian Pro adds a pop-up, phone push and a lot size for your limits, and PropFirm Solo can trade the setup itself. They are not advice or a promise of profit: the tested edge is small and you decide whether to take a trade.
Yes. Your trade panel or EA handles entries, breakeven and trailing; the Guardian handles daily loss, drawdown and risk limits. Attach it to one chart only; it watches the whole account.
No EA can promise that. It keeps you inside the rules; the trading edge is small and results vary.
Yes. Use Guardian mode, or run Auto mode and trade other symbols by hand.
Rule presets exist for FTMO, FundedNext, The5ers and FundingPips, and any other firm works through custom inputs. A preset only sets the limits; it does not mean the firm allows Auto mode. Guardian is allowed as a risk manager at FTMO and FundingPips; at FundedNext it is allowed under $50k (ask support about larger accounts), and The5ers doesn't mention risk managers, so confirm with them. Auto mode is not allowed at The5ers or FundingPips and is limited at FundedNext and FTMO. See the table in "Built for your firm". Auto mode also checks your firm when it starts and, by default, places no trades where trading EAs are banned.
Yes. Auto mode opens the same trades for every user at the same time, and firms compare trades across clients. That is why some firms ban third-party EAs that trade for you. Use Guardian mode, or Guardian or Guardian Pro, where your firm only allows risk managers.
MT5 does not allow that. Guardian reacts within about a second after the order opens.
Gold is the main setup. NAS100, US500, US30 and USDJPY have a smaller edge, and BTC needs care. Other FX pairs, GER40 and UK100 showed no edge in testing, so Solo trades them only at a reduced 0.25% risk and marks them as untested.
A new range-breakout engine with a tested New York time for each market: gold at 08:00, US indices at 09:30 and USDJPY at the London open. Every trade gets a moving stop from +1R and a set exit time. The earlier gold trend setup is still there as an option.
Recommended. Guardian can only protect your account while MT5 is running.
All three run on MetaTrader 5, use the same protection code and include the gold signals. Sold on MQL5 Market.
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Stratify is our strategy lab for traders who don't code. Pick a timeframe, indicators and entry and exit rules from simple menus, test it on your own MT5 prices, and turn the strategies that hold up into an MQL5 Expert Advisor you compile in MetaTrader 5. Your price files stay on your device.
10 indicators, a higher-timeframe filter, stops in ATR or pips, targets, trailing and breakeven, risk per trade and trading hours, all from menus.
Replay the test bar by bar: every entry, every stop that moves, every exit, with spreads and costs included and the losing months shown.
Replay it against prop-challenge rules from every start month, and test it against luck: unseen prices, other settings and shuffled trades.
We tested the same strategy on a full year of real XAUUSD M30 prices from a live broker's MT5 server, in Stratify and in the MT5 Strategy Tester. Stratify found the same 339 trades, at the same bars (MT5: 340, one extra from earlier history), with win rate 32.4% vs 32.7%, profit factor 0.81 vs 0.83 and drawdown 34.7% vs 33.1%. The EA it wrote compiled with 0 errors and 0 warnings. That strategy lost money in both: the point is that Stratify tells you the same truth as MT5, before you risk money. See the comparison
Stratify tests ideas on past prices: a backtest is not a promise of future results, and it is not financial advice. Compile the EA in MetaEditor and test it in the MT5 Strategy Tester and on a demo account before any real money. On a challenge, run Guardian beside it: it pauses trading as the daily or maximum loss limit nears.
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