Let GoldenBoyFX trade gold, BTC and indices for you, or trade yourself while it guards your daily loss, drawdown and stops.
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Profit factor is gross profit divided by gross loss; above 1.00 means the test made money. These are modest edges, shown as they are.
| Instrument | Engine | Tested on real ticks | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XAUUSD gold | KAMA trend, M15 signals / H1 trend, runner exit; trades 00:00–10:00 New York time (v1.05) | 2020–2026 | Profit factor 1.27 at 1% risk, deepest drop 15%; 2022 lost 2.5% | Main setup |
| BTCUSD | Triple-EMA trend, daily filter, Heikin-Ashi exit | 2023–2026 | Profit factor 1.06, drawdown about 19% | Use with care |
| US30 · NAS100 · US500 | New York opening-range breakout | Aug 2022–2026 | Profit factor 1.01–1.04 Tested with the trail starting at 1R. v1.04 trails from the first profitable tick by default; set the trail start to 1.0 for the tested behaviour. | Small edge |
| GER40 · UK100 · JP225 | Local cash-open range breakout | Not yet | Untested | Experimental |
| FX majors | London-open range breakout | Not yet | Untested | Experimental |
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 sold 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 same best-tested gold setup the full EA trades: 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. What changes is how fast it reaches you and who places the trade.
The day's first signal reaches you the moment it triggers, with entry and stop. Later signals that day appear an hour after they trigger, with how they have done since, 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 takes the same trades itself, sized to your firm's limits, and manages the trailing stop.
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 2020–2026 gold test of v1.05. 2022 lost 2.5%, and one slow slide from mid-2021 to September 2023 reached 15%.
Of real-tick gold data tested, 2020 to 2026, swap included, losing years shown.
Limits and state survive a VPS reboot, so a restart never resets your daily room.
Gold, BTC or an index. The EA reads the symbol and loads its engine.
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 Free, Guardian Pro and PropFirm Solo on XAUUSD. Backtests are labelled as backtests, and results vary.
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Start with Guardian Free 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 full EA's gold 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 Free gives you the first signal of each day live and shows the rest 60 minutes after they trigger, Guardian Pro alerts you to every signal straight away with a lot size, and PropFirm Solo trades them 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 Free or 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 tested setup and BTC works with care. US indices have a smaller edge; other instruments are untested.
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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