{
  "id": 11449,
  "rank": 43,
  "name": "XAUUSD Donchian Trend EA",
  "aka": [
    "XAUUSD Donchian Trend Expert Advisor"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A2",
  "one_liner": "Generates signals on H4 for XAUUSD using Donchian Channel breakout with trailing stop and fixed SL.",
  "market_regime": "trending|volatile",
  "timeframes": [
    "H4",
    "M30"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "XAUUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "any"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "Donchian Channel",
      "params": {
        "period": 20
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "SMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "ADX",
      "params": {
        "period": 14
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "Close above upper Donchian Channel band"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "Close below lower Donchian Channel band"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "No fixed TP, only SL via trailing"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "Price on trend side of SMA(50); ADX(14) > 20",
    "News filter ±90 min of high-impact events",
    "Max Drawdown 20% → pauses EA in real time",
    "Daily Drawdown 1.5% → stops opening trades for the rest of the day"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "Risk 1% of balance vs. SL distance",
  "take_profit": "Not explicitly stated",
  "position_size": "Risk 1% of balance vs. SL distance, scaled 0.5x–2.0x based on last 10 trades",
  "evidence_type": "source_code",
  "completeness": 70.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "UNSIZED CLAIM: performance figures are published with no trade count, so the sample behind them cannot be judged.",
    "UNDATED CLAIM: performance figures are published with no test period, so they cannot be checked or reproduced."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/11449-xauusd-donchian-trend-ea",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/metasitwute021/wute",
  "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."
}