🔢 Gold Neural Core MT5 Settings Guide
Gold Neural Core MT5 is a highly configurable automated trading system designed for XAUUSD (Gold), combining automated lot sizing, ATR-based position scaling, grid management, volatility adaptation, economic-news filtering, drawdown protection, emergency stop-out controls, and detailed trade-management options. The supplied configuration is built around the GNC Default set file and provides extensive control over risk, execution, position sizing, trading hours, news events, and grid behavior.
🔢 Gold Neural Core MT5 Settings
🔶 Usage Instructions & General Information
🔹 Recommended Chart: Load the EA on an XAUUSD chart; the displayed instruction states that the timeframe is irrelevant.
🔹 Risk Configuration: Adjust the AutoLot level input to control the desired risk level.
🔶 General Inputs
🔹 Allow entry without signals if DualMA aligned: false — Prevents entries without the normal trading signals even when the DualMA condition is aligned.
🔹 Enable spread filter?: false — Disables the spread filter.
🔹 Max spread in points for entry: 400.0 — Sets the maximum configured spread threshold for entry to 400.0 points when spread filtering is enabled.
🔹 EA comment: GNC — Uses GNC as the EA's trade/comment identifier.
🔹 Hide Entry Model Comments: false — Keeps entry-model comments visible.
🔹 EA magic number: 45775421 — Assigns the unique Magic Number 45775421 to identify Gold Neural Core MT5 trades.
🔹 Allow buy positions: true — Enables Buy positions.
🔹 Allow sell positions: true — Enables Sell positions.
🔹 Allow Hedging (set to false to comply with FIFO requirements): true — Enables hedging; setting this to false would be required for FIFO-compliant operation.
🔶 Debug Prints Settings
🔹 Time frame for printing debug: 1 Hour — Sets the debugging reference timeframe to 1 Hour.
🔹 Show array debug prints: false — Disables array-related debug messages.
🔹 Show Range Entry Print Statements: false — Disables range-entry diagnostic messages.
🔹 Show ATR calculation debug prints: false — Disables ATR calculation diagnostics.
🔹 Show lot multiplier ATR debug prints: false — Disables ATR lot-multiplier diagnostic messages.
🔹 Show TP calculation debug prints: false — Disables Take Profit calculation diagnostics.
🔹 Show grid debug prints in journal: false — Disables grid-related journal messages.
🔹 Show Stop Loss Debug Prints: false — Disables Stop Loss diagnostic messages.
🔹 Show Price Action debug prints: false — Disables Price Action diagnostic messages.
🔹 Show emergency stop out debug prints in journal: false — Disables emergency stop-out journal diagnostics.
🔹 Print currency checks in journal?: false — Disables currency-check messages in the journal.
🔹 Print new entry attempts in journal?: false — Disables journal messages for new entry attempts.
🔶 Money Management
🔹 Maximum positions per currency in same direction across account: 1 — Limits the maximum number of positions for the same currency and direction across the account to 1.
🔹 Close grid on opposite signal?: false — Prevents the grid from automatically closing when an opposite signal appears.
AutoLot Risk Reference
🔹 AutoLot 0.1: Low Risk — The panel describes this level as approximately 10–30% p.a., with a minimum balance of 10K.
🔹 AutoLot 0.3: Moderate Risk — The panel describes this level as approximately 20–100% p.a., with a minimum balance of 7K.
🔹 AutoLot 0.5: High Risk — The panel describes this level as approximately 60–300% p.a., with a minimum balance of 5K.
🔹 AutoLot 1: Aggressive Risk — The panel describes this level as approximately 100–600% p.a., with a minimum balance of 1K.
🔹 AutoLot 1.5: Degen Risk — The panel describes this level as approximately 250–1000% p.a., with a minimum balance of 1K.
🔹 AutoLot > 1.5: YOLO — The panel describes this level as approximately 500–2000% p.a., with a minimum balance of 1K.
🔹 Additional leverage requirement: 1:500 or higher — The supplied instructions state that 1:500 or higher leverage is needed.
🔹 Cent Account Recommendation: The panel suggests using a cent account if the minimum available balance requirement cannot be met.
🔹 Cent Account Example: The panel states that $10 provides a balance of 1K on a cent account.
🔹 Risk Disclaimer: The supplied configuration explicitly states that trading is risky and users should trade at their own risk.
🔶 Starting Lot Settings
🔹 Risk Model: AutoLot — Selects the AutoLot system for position-size calculation.
🔹 Starting lot (if AutoLot is not used): 0.01 — Sets the starting fixed lot to 0.01 when AutoLot is not used.
🔹 AutoLot level (1 = 0.01 lots per 1000 account balance): 1.0 — Sets the AutoLot level to 1.0, with the displayed reference of 0.01 lots per 1000 account balance.
🔶 Lot Multiplier Settings
Linear Lot Multiplier
🔹 Only increase lot at full distance intervals: false — Allows lot increases without requiring only complete distance intervals.
🔹 Use ATR-based distance instead of static pips: true — Enables ATR-based distance calculations for lot increases instead of using a fixed pip distance.
🔹 Pips distance for lot increase (if not using ATR): 5.0 — Sets the alternative static distance to 5.0 pips when ATR-based distance is not used.
🔹 Lot amount to increase per distance: 0.01 — Increases the lot size by 0.01 for each applicable distance increment.
🔶 Economic News Selection
🔹 Select Average Hourly Earnings: true — Includes Average Hourly Earnings in the selected economic-news events.
🔹 Select PMI: true — Enables PMI news-event selection.
🔹 Select JOLTS Job Openings: true — Enables JOLTS Job Openings news selection.
🔹 Select Fed Chair Speaks: true — Includes Fed Chair speaking events.
🔹 Select ECB President Speaks: true — Includes ECB President speaking events.
🔹 Select ECB Press Conference: true — Includes ECB Press Conference events.
🔹 Select ECB Interest Rate Decision: true — Includes ECB Interest Rate Decision events.
🔶 Time Settings
🔹 Trade on Monday: true — Allows trading on Monday.
🔹 Trade on Tuesday: true — Allows trading on Tuesday.
🔹 Trade on Wednesday: true — Allows trading on Wednesday.
🔹 Trade on Thursday: true — Allows trading on Thursday.
🔹 Trade on Friday: true — Allows trading on Friday.
🔹 Using Trade Hour: true — Enables the configured trading-hour restrictions.
🔹 Start Hour (Tuesday to Friday): 3 — Trading starts at hour 3 from Tuesday through Friday.
🔹 Last Hour (Monday to Thursday): 20 — Trading is permitted through hour 20 from Monday through Thursday.
🔹 Start Hour (Monday): 3 — Monday trading starts at hour 3.
🔹 Last Hour (Friday): 12 — Friday trading ends at hour 12.
🔶 Close End of Day
🔹 Close positions at hour?: false — Disables scheduled end-of-day position closure.
🔹 Hour to close all positions: 23 — Sets the configured closing hour to 23 if the end-of-day closing function is enabled.
🔶 XMAS Holiday Filter
🔹 Enable Christmas Holiday Filter: true — Enables the Christmas holiday trading filter.
🔹 First Trading Day (DD.MM): 02.01 — Sets 02.01 as the first permitted trading date under the holiday schedule.
🔹 Last Trading Day (DD.MM): 23.12 — Sets 23.12 as the last permitted trading date.
🔶 Safety Settings
Stop Loss
🔹 Enable stop loss?: false — Disables the standard Stop Loss function.
🔹 Stop loss at percentage or money drawdown?: PercentageDD — Selects percentage drawdown as the Stop Loss calculation method.
🔹 Drawdown money for stop loss: 100.0 — Sets the money-based drawdown reference to 100.0.
🔹 Drawdown percentage for stop loss: 50.0 — Sets the percentage drawdown reference to 50.0%.
Emergency Stop-Out Protection
🔹 Enable emergency stop out protection: true — Enables emergency protection against severe account drawdown/stop-out conditions.
🔹 Margin cushion above broker stop out (%): 10.0 — Maintains a 10.0% margin cushion above the broker's stop-out level.
🔹 Check interval in seconds: 60 — Checks emergency stop-out conditions every 60 seconds.
🔹 Set to 0 to disable, or 1-2 for aggressive: 5 — Sets the protection sensitivity/control value to 5.
🔶 Drawdown Alerts
🔹 Enable drawdown alerts: true — Enables drawdown warning alerts.
🔹 Maximum allowed drawdown percentage: 15.0 — Sets the alert threshold at 15.0% drawdown.
🔹 Alert interval in minutes: 15 — Sets the alert interval to 15 minutes.
🔶 Prop Firm Settings
Prop Firm Compliance
🔹 Enable random time delay for entries: false — Disables randomized entry delays.
🔹 Maximum delay in milliseconds (0-1000): 30 — Sets the maximum possible entry delay to 30 milliseconds.
Prop Firm Stop EA at Win
🔹 Enable prop firm challenge win: false — Disables the automatic prop-firm challenge completion mechanism.
🔹 Close positions and stop trading at this equity: 110025 — Sets the equity target at 110025 for the challenge-win function if enabled.
🔶 Info Panel Settings
🔹 Show info panel?: false — Disables the on-chart information panel.
🔹 Number of days to calculate trading statistics: 600 — Uses 600 days when calculating the displayed trading statistics.
🔹 Panel X position: 110 — Sets the panel horizontal position to 110.
🔹 Panel Y position: 20 — Sets the panel vertical position to 20.
🔹 Space between header and first text line: 50 — Sets the spacing to 50.
🔹 Space between labels and values: 320 — Sets the label/value spacing to 320.
🔶 ATR Settings for Linear Lot Multiplier
🔹 ATR timeframe for lot multiplier: 1 Day — Uses the 1 Day timeframe for ATR-based lot-multiplier calculations.
🔹 ATR period for lot multiplier: 2 — Uses an ATR period of 2.
🔹 ATR multiplier (0.1 = 10% of ATR for each increase): 0.5 — Sets the ATR multiplier to 0.5, determining the distance increment used for lot scaling.
🔶 Rolling Volatility for ATR Lot Multiplier
🔹 Rolling Volatility Window (hours): 7 — Calculates rolling volatility over a 7-hour window.
🔹 Rolling Vol Weight % (0=pure ATR, 100=pure Rolling Vol): 80 — Applies an 80% Rolling Volatility weighting, with the remaining weighting coming from ATR.
🔶 Position Count Modifier
🔹 Enable position count modifier: true — Enables position-count-based adjustment of the lot multiplier.
🔹 Positions per modifier step: 3 — Applies one modifier step for every 3 positions.
🔹 Change per step (0.10 = +10%, -0.10 = -10%): 0.5 — Sets the change per position-count step to 0.5.
🔹 Floor multiplier (0.50 = never below 50% of base lot): 0.5 — Prevents the adjusted multiplier from falling below 0.5, or 50% of the base lot.
🔹 Ceiling multiplier (2.00 = never above 200% of base lot): 5.0 — Caps the adjusted multiplier at 5.0, or 500% of the base lot.
🔶 Maximum Lot Size
🔹 Max Lot per 1K balance: 1.0 — Sets the maximum lot reference at 1.0 lot per 1K balance.
🔹 FixedLot: final size | AutoLot: base size (×AutoLot level): =MaxLot — Defines the final/base lot relationship using the calculated MaxLot value.
🔶 Take Profit Settings
🔹 Money Target per 0.01 starting lot (e.g., 5.0 = $5 per 0.01 lot): 3.0 — Sets the money-based target at 3.0 per 0.01 starting lot.
🔹 Commission per lot (round-trip, account currency): 7.0 — Uses a commission reference of 7.0 per lot for a round-trip trade.
🔹 Auto-detect commission from deal history: true — Enables automatic commission detection from historical deal data.
🔶 Commission Cost Settings
🔹 Include commission costs in TP calculation?: true — Includes commission costs when calculating the Take Profit target.
🔶 Swap Cost Settings
🔹 Include swap costs in TP calculation?: true — Includes swap costs when calculating the Take Profit target.
🔹 Broker swap charging method: Full swap on open position at rollover — Uses the broker's full swap charge on an open position at rollover for swap-cost calculations.
🔶 Grid Settings
🔹 Enable Grid? (if false->SL): true — Enables the grid trading mechanism; if disabled, the alternative SL behavior is used according to the EA's design.
🔹 Minimum minutes between grid positions: 5 — Requires at least 5 minutes between grid-position entries.
🔹 Apply timer between initial entry and first grid?: true — Enables a timer between the initial entry and the first grid position.
🔹 SL in pips (only used if grid is disabled): 20.0 — Sets the alternative Stop Loss to 20.0 pips when the grid is disabled.
🔹 Max number of positions in a grid: 100 — Allows up to 100 positions in a grid.
🔹 Use max available margin when insufficient for calculated lot?: true — Allows the EA to use the maximum available margin when the calculated lot cannot otherwise be opened.
🔶 News Filter Settings
🔹 Allow trading on NFP days?: false — Disables trading on NFP days.
🔹 Enable news filter (for initial positions)?: false — Disables the news filter for initial positions.
🔹 Filter only selected news?: true — Restricts the news filter to the specifically selected news events.
🔹 Disable grid positions during news events?: false — Does not disable grid-position entries during news events through this option.
🔹 Number of days (past and future to load on init): 5 — Loads 5 days of past/future news data during initialization.
🔹 Print news info in journal?: false — Disables news information printing in the MT5 journal.
🔶 News Timing Controls
🔹 Minutes before un-selected news to stop trading: 240 — Stops trading 240 minutes before an unselected news event under the relevant filter logic.
🔹 Minutes after un-selected news to start trading: 120 — Resumes trading 120 minutes after an unselected news event.
🔹 Minutes before selected news to stop trading: 600 — Stops trading 600 minutes before a selected news event.
🔹 Minutes after selected news to start trading: 5 — Resumes trading 5 minutes after a selected news event.
🔹 Minutes before to stop grid: 60 — Stops new grid activity 60 minutes before the configured news event.
🔹 Minutes after to start grid: 60 — Resumes grid activity 60 minutes after the configured news event.
🔶 Selected Economic News Events
🔹 Select NFP (Non-Farm Payrolls): true — Includes NFP events in the selected-news system.
🔹 Select CPI (Consumer Price Index): true — Includes CPI events.
🔹 Select FOMC Meetings/Statements: true — Includes FOMC meetings and statements.
🔹 Select PPI (Producer Price Index): true — Includes PPI events.
🔹 Select Retail Sales: true — Includes Retail Sales events.
🔹 Select GDP: true — Includes GDP releases.
🔹 Select Fed Interest Rate Decision: true — Includes Federal Reserve interest-rate decisions.
🔹 Select Unemployment Rate: true — Includes unemployment-rate releases.
🔹 Select Initial Jobless Claims: true — Includes Initial Jobless Claims releases.
🔢 Highlights of Gold Neural Core MT5
🔹 XAUUSD Focus: The supplied instructions specifically direct users to load the EA on an XAUUSD chart.
🔹 AutoLot Risk Management: The EA provides multiple AutoLot reference levels ranging from 0.1 Low Risk through >1.5 YOLO, with the supplied configuration using AutoLot level 1.0.
🔹 ATR-Based Position Scaling: ATR-based distance is enabled, using a 1 Day ATR timeframe, ATR period 2, and ATR multiplier 0.5.
🔹 Rolling Volatility Analysis: The lot multiplier incorporates an 80% Rolling Volatility weight over a 7-hour window.
🔹 Dynamic Position Modifier: Position-count modification is enabled with 3 positions per step, a 0.5 change, a 0.5 floor, and a 5.0 ceiling.
🔹 Grid Trading: Grid functionality is enabled with 5 minutes between grid positions and a maximum of 100 positions.
🔹 News Event Coverage: NFP, CPI, FOMC, PPI, Retail Sales, GDP, Fed Interest Rate Decision, Unemployment Rate, and Initial Jobless Claims are all selected.
🔹 News Protection: Selected news has a 600-minute pre-event restriction and a 5-minute post-event restriction, while grid activity uses 60 minutes before and 60 minutes after.
🔹 Emergency Protection: Emergency stop-out protection is enabled with a 10.0% margin cushion and a 60-second check interval.
🔹 Drawdown Alerts: Drawdown alerts are enabled at 15.0%, with alerts repeated every 15 minutes.
🔹 Prop Firm Controls: The configuration includes a prop-firm challenge equity target of 110025, although the automatic challenge-win feature is currently disabled.
🔢 Conclusion
Gold Neural Core MT5 offers a comprehensive configuration framework for automated XAUUSD trading, with particular emphasis on adaptive position sizing, volatility analysis, grid execution, news awareness, and account protection.
The supplied configuration uses AutoLot as its risk model with an AutoLot level of 1.0, while ATR and rolling-volatility calculations dynamically influence lot scaling. The system combines a 1 Day ATR timeframe, 2-period ATR, 0.5 ATR multiplier, 7-hour rolling volatility window, and 80% rolling-volatility weighting.
The grid engine is also enabled, with a 5-minute minimum interval, a 20.0-pip alternative SL, and up to 100 grid positions. Because grid trading can substantially increase exposure as positions accumulate, the Max Lot, position-count modifier, drawdown, and emergency protection settings are particularly important when evaluating this configuration.
News management is extensive, with 9 major economic-event categories selected, including NFP, CPI, FOMC, PPI, Retail Sales, GDP, Fed interest-rate decisions, unemployment data, and Initial Jobless Claims. The configuration also accounts for commission and swap costs when calculating Take Profit.
For risk management, the EA includes 15.0% drawdown alerts, a 10.0% emergency margin cushion, and a 60-second emergency check interval. Nevertheless, the standard Stop Loss is disabled and the news filter for initial positions is also disabled in the supplied configuration, so traders should understand exactly how the EA's grid, TP, emergency, and account-level protection mechanisms interact before deploying it on a live account.
Overall, the settings present Gold Neural Core MT5 as a highly adjustable automated Gold trading system where lot sizing, volatility, grid spacing, news events, trading exposure, and account protection can be finely controlled.
🔢 FAQs
❓ What market is Gold Neural Core MT5 designed for?
The supplied instructions specifically state that the EA should be loaded on an XAUUSD chart, while the chart timeframe is described as irrelevant.
❓ What is the configured AutoLot level?
The current AutoLot level is 1.0, with the supplied description defining level 1 as 0.01 lots per 1000 account balance.
❓ Does Gold Neural Core MT5 use a grid strategy?
Yes. Enable Grid = true, the minimum time between grid positions is 5 minutes, and the maximum number of grid positions is 100.
❓ Which economic news events are selected?
The configuration selects NFP, CPI, FOMC Meetings/Statements, PPI, Retail Sales, GDP, Fed Interest Rate Decision, Unemployment Rate, and Initial Jobless Claims, all with a value of true.
❓ What are the main account-protection settings?
Emergency stop-out protection is enabled with a 10.0% margin cushion, a 60-second check interval, and a control value of 5. Drawdown alerts are enabled at 15.0%, with an alert interval of 15 minutes.
