{
  "id": 27,
  "rank": 94,
  "name": "Gold Breakout EA",
  "aka": [
    "Gold EA",
    "Automated Gold EA"
  ],
  "family": "K",
  "subtype": "K4",
  "one_liner": "Automated trading bot that places buy and sell stops at the previous day's high and low, with aggressive trailing stop-loss.",
  "market_regime": "volatile",
  "timeframes": [
    "D1"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "XAUUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [
    "any"
  ],
  "indicators": [],
  "entry_long": [
    "buy stop placed at previous day's high"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "sell stop placed at previous day's low"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "trailing stop-loss aggressively trails the trade"
  ],
  "filters": [],
  "stop_loss": "trailing stop-loss",
  "take_profit": "default take-profit is $2,700, but it never reaches this point due to aggressive trailing",
  "position_size": "not specified",
  "evidence_type": "forward_results",
  "completeness": 50.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "HIGH WIN RATE: claimed 91%. Attainable, but nearly always by banking many small wins against rare large losses - check the payoff ratio and the worst single trade before trusting it.",
    "VERY THIN SAMPLE: 26 trades. Performance figures over so few trades are indistinguishable from luck."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": [
    "DAILY_LOW_COUNT: daily-or-slower timeframe on a single instrument. Expect well under 100 trades in five years, so a backtest will rarely reach statistical significance on its own."
  ],
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/27-gold-breakout-ea",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5nsTbFoU6Y",
  "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."
}