{
  "id": 10331,
  "rank": 1709,
  "name": "Kestrel XAU MT5",
  "aka": [
    "KESTREL: Small-Account Gold EA with Tight Stops and a High Win Rate (XAUUSD)"
  ],
  "family": "C",
  "subtype": "C2",
  "one_liner": "Trades gold at key price levels with tight stops and fixed take-profit, designed for small accounts.",
  "market_regime": "any",
  "timeframes": [
    "M15"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "XAUUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "active part of the gold trading day"
  ],
  "indicators": [],
  "entry_long": [
    "price breaks through a major psychological price level for the first time in a session"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "price breaks through a previous month's extreme for the first time in a session"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "take-profit is twice the size of the stop-loss"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "only one position at a time",
    "maximum holding time"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "tight broker-side stop-loss placed with the order",
  "take_profit": "fixed take-profit twice the size of the stop-loss",
  "position_size": "Fixed lot size 0.01 for small accounts; Percent of balance 0.5% per trade for larger accounts",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "RECOVERY SIZING: position size increases after losses (martingale/grid/averaging). Equity curves look smooth until the run that does not recover - judge it on worst-case exposure, not win rate."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/10331-kestrel-xau-mt5",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/199606",
  "limitations": "These are machine-extracted research records, not verified trading systems. Catalog rank measures specification detail and claimed evidence, not profitability. The catalog extraction pipeline did not independently backtest these records. Its separate selected testing ledger does not validate the wider corpus. Rules, labels and parameters can be incomplete or wrong; consult the original source and its reuse terms."
}