{
  "id": 448,
  "rank": 2172,
  "name": "BB_Gold_Scalper",
  "aka": [
    "BB-Gold-Scalper-EA"
  ],
  "family": "B",
  "subtype": "B1",
  "one_liner": "Bollinger Band Touch strategy for XAUUSD with 5:1 Risk-Reward Ratio",
  "market_regime": "any",
  "timeframes": [
    "M15"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "XAUUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "Bollinger Bands",
      "params": {
        "period": 20,
        "deviation": 2.0
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "2 bars ago: Closed ABOVE lower BB",
    "Previous bar: Touched/broke through lower BB",
    "Current bar: Closed back ABOVE lower BB (Bounce)"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "2 bars ago: Closed BELOW upper BB",
    "Previous bar: Touched/broke through upper BB",
    "Current bar: Closed back BELOW upper BB (Bounce)"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "Stop Loss: At 100 Pips loss ($10)",
    "Take Profit: At 500 Pips profit ($50) - CRV 5:1",
    "BB-Touch: Position closes when price touches opposite BB"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "Max Spread 30 pips"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "100 Pips",
  "take_profit": "500 Pips",
  "position_size": "Fixed lot size: 0.01",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "VERY THIN SAMPLE: 15 trades. Performance figures over so few trades are indistinguishable from luck.",
    "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/448-bb-gold-scalper",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://github.com/youngboiiii/BB-Gold-Scalper-EA",
  "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."
}