{
  "id": 12428,
  "rank": 440,
  "name": "Meridian Gold Trend",
  "aka": [
    "Meridian Gold Trend Expert Advisor"
  ],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A2",
  "one_liner": "A multi-strategy trend and breakout Expert Advisor for gold (XAUUSD) on H4 signals.",
  "market_regime": "trending|ranging|volatile",
  "timeframes": [
    "H4"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "XAUUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "any chart timeframe (signals are H4)"
  ],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 21
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 55
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "ADX",
      "params": {
        "period": 14
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "RSI",
      "params": {
        "period": 14
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Donchian",
      "params": {
        "period": 30
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "Bollinger Bands",
      "params": {
        "period": 20
      }
    },
    {
      "name": "ATR",
      "params": {
        "period": 14
      }
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "pullback-continuation entries in an ADX-confirmed trend (EMA 21 and 55, ADX 14 at or above 31), confirmed by the last completed daily bar, with RSI and over-extension filters"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "close-confirmed 30-bar Donchian breakouts in the direction of the daily trend, with candle-body and no-chase filters"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "stop 2.5 ATR (at least 1.0 ATR, at most 5.0 ATR), target 6 times the risk distance, ATR trailing stop (3.0 ATR) from 1 R profit"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "news filter (live only)",
    "spread filter 15 % of ATR",
    "maximum drawdown 40 % (stops new entries)",
    "hard equity stop 45 % (closes the EA positions)",
    "pause for the rest of the day after 5 consecutive losses",
    "at most 5 entries per day"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "2.5 ATR (at least 1.0 ATR, at most 5.0 ATR)",
  "take_profit": "6 times the risk distance, ATR trailing stop (3.0 ATR) from 1 R profit",
  "position_size": "2 % of equity per trade, computed in the account currency from the stop distance. Up to 2 positions (one trend, one breakout) at a time, at most 4 % of equity at risk in total.",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": null,
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": null,
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/12428-meridian-gold-trend",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/205004",
  "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."
}