{
  "id": 11802,
  "rank": 364,
  "name": "Trend Confirm Lock",
  "aka": [
    "EA 17",
    "Trend Confirm Lock EA",
    "Gold Trend Confirm Lock EA"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A1",
  "one_liner": "Trend-following strategy that confirms trend with pullback and locks profit after 20 price units.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "M15",
    "M30"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "XAUUSDm"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "any"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "SMMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 20
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "SMMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 50
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "MA fast > MA slow",
    "MA gap ≥ 0.2 ATR",
    "MA fast slope up over 3 bars",
    "Close price > MA slow"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "..."
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "MA fast slope change > 0.1 ATR over 3 bars",
    "Held for 96 bars (24 hours)",
    "Profit ≥ 20 price units, SL locked at entry +10"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "max spread 1.0 price unit"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "Below the low of the confirmation bar and pullback bars, minus 0.1 ATR. Min 0.5 ATR, max 15 price units.",
  "take_profit": "Not used by default",
  "position_size": "Fixed lot size of 0.01 (1 price unit = $1)",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "THIN SAMPLE: 90 trades - below the ~100 needed before a win rate or profit factor carries much information."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/11802-trend-confirm-lock",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/LiinIT/Bot-EA17-Trading-Gold_TrendConfirmLock_v1",
  "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."
}