🔢 GOLD OFF STILL EA MT5: Complete Settings Guide and Configuration Explained
GOLD OFF STILL EA is an automated trading Expert Advisor configuration with adjustable equity-based risk, risk-to-reward targeting, lot-size limits, spread filtering, and chart visualization. Its input settings allow traders to define the risk percentage per trade, configure the take-profit calculation relative to risk, control the maximum trading volume, and customize the display of high and low price levels.
This guide explains every visible parameter in the supplied configuration, preserving the original setting names, values, and options.

⚙️ Global Risk and Lot Settings
🔹 Risk % of Equity (per trade, per profile) = 3.0 — Sets the risk parameter to 3.0% of account equity per trade and per profile. The actual monetary risk depends on how the EA calculates position size, stop-loss distance, and exposure. Confirm whether the percentage represents intended stop-loss risk or another internal sizing measure before live use.
🔹 Risk Ratio (Take Profit) = 1.5 — Sets the risk-to-reward ratio to 1.5. If the EA uses this value directly to calculate the take-profit distance from the stop-loss distance, the target would be 1.5 times the defined risk distance, corresponding to a nominal 1:1.5 risk-to-reward relationship before trading costs.
🔹 Maximum Lot Size = 1.0 — Sets the maximum permitted position size to 1.0 lot. If the EA calculates a volume above this limit, it may cap the order size at 1.0 lot, depending on the internal position-sizing logic and broker volume restrictions.
🔹 Max Spread for Entry (pips) = 6.0 — Sets the maximum allowed entry spread to 6.0 pips. The EA can use this threshold to avoid opening new positions when the spread exceeds the configured limit. Verify how the EA converts pips for the selected instrument, especially when trading Gold (XAUUSD), because broker quotation formats vary.
⚙️ Global Pip Definition
🔹 Pip size in price units (0 = auto; XAUUSD auto = 0.10) = 0.0 — Sets the manual pip-size value to 0.0, which activates automatic pip-size detection according to the parameter description. For XAUUSD, the stated automatic reference is 0.10 price units. The effective value should be verified against the broker's symbol specifications and the EA's implementation.
⚙️ Global Visualization Settings
🔹 Global: Visualization (off automatically in non-visual test) = Section heading — Identifies the settings that control the chart display and visual representation of relevant price levels.
🔹 Show dashboard & level lines = true — Enables the dashboard and price-level lines on the chart. This option is intended to make relevant EA information and detected levels visible during chart operation.
🔹 High Level Color = DodgerBlue — Sets the color for high-level lines to DodgerBlue, a bright blue shade that helps distinguish high price levels from other chart elements.
🔹 Low Level Color = Tomato — Sets the color for low-level lines to Tomato, a reddish-orange shade used to distinguish low price levels on the chart.
🔢 Conclusion
The supplied GOLD OFF STILL EA MT5 configuration uses a risk setting of 3.0% of equity per trade, a risk-to-reward ratio of 1.5, a maximum lot size of 1.0, and a maximum entry spread of 6.0 pips. Pip-size detection is set to automatic through Pip size in price units = 0.0, with the parameter description specifying 0.10 as the automatic XAUUSD reference.
Chart visualization is enabled, with high levels displayed in DodgerBlue and low levels in Tomato. These settings provide configurable controls for position sizing, entry-cost filtering, target calculation, and chart monitoring. However, the actual risk per trade depends on the EA's internal calculations, and a 3.0% risk setting can create substantial exposure when trades lose consecutively.
Before using GOLD OFF STILL EA MT5 on a live account, verify the pip conversion for the broker's symbol, the calculation behind the risk-to-reward ratio, and how the maximum lot-size limit is enforced. Backtesting and demo trading are recommended before risking real capital.










