{
  "id": 12085,
  "rank": 359,
  "name": "The Midas Strategy",
  "aka": [
    "The Midas Scalper: Institutional Gold (XAUUSD) Precision Strategy"
  ],
  "family": "F",
  "subtype": "F1",
  "one_liner": "A high-precision scalping algorithm designed for XAUUSD, focusing on mean-reversion and profit-locking.",
  "market_regime": "range_bound",
  "timeframes": [
    "M1"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "XAUUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "Enable AsianSession (01:00-08:00 UTC)"
  ],
  "indicators": [],
  "entry_long": [
    "price drops by the Buy Dip Threshold from the tracked high"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "price rallies by the Sell Rise Threshold from the tracked low"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "Once a position achieves floating profit equal to the Lock Trigger, the broker-side Stop Loss is modified to the Lock Level"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "multi-timeframe trend coherence filter (M1, M5, M10, M15)"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "hard disaster stop loss placed at order fill",
  "take_profit": "hard broker-side take-profit target of 10.0 pips",
  "position_size": "sizing uses a step-function (+1 reference lot per defined profit threshold) and symmetrically descales if drawdowns occur, never dropping below your base lot",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "IMPLAUSIBLE PROFIT FACTOR: claimed 24.44. Over any real sample this is far outside what retail FX sustains.",
    "UNSIZED CLAIM: performance figures are published with no trade count, so the sample behind them cannot be judged."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/12085-the-midas-strategy",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://ctrader.com/products/5326",
  "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."
}