{
  "id": 7949,
  "rank": 577,
  "name": "Gold Apex EA MT4",
  "aka": [],
  "family": "A",
  "subtype": "A4",
  "one_liner": "A trend-following expert advisor that uses ATR-based stop loss and trailing lock for gold trading.",
  "market_regime": "trending",
  "timeframes": [
    "M1"
  ],
  "symbols": [
    "XAUUSD"
  ],
  "sessions": [],
  "indicators": [
    {
      "name": "ATR",
      "params": {
        "period": 14
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 45
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "EMA",
      "params": {
        "period": 17
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    },
    {
      "name": "ADX",
      "params": {
        "period": 22
      },
      "applied_to": "close"
    }
  ],
  "entry_long": [
    "price crosses above InpEmaFast and InpAdxThreshold is met"
  ],
  "entry_short": [
    "price crosses below InpEmaFast and InpAdxThreshold is met"
  ],
  "exit_rules": [
    "trailing lock activated once trade achieves >= 8×ATR in profit"
  ],
  "filters": [
    "spread exceeds ATR × 3",
    "broker spread exceeds 35 points",
    "news filter"
  ],
  "stop_loss": "16×ATR from execution",
  "take_profit": "dynamic ratchet trailing lock",
  "position_size": "InpRiskPercent of account balance",
  "evidence_type": "backtest_shown",
  "completeness": 80.0,
  "signal_warnings": null,
  "claim_warnings": [
    "IMPLAUSIBLE PROFIT FACTOR: claimed 11.63. Over any real sample this is far outside what retail FX sustains.",
    "VERY THIN SAMPLE: 29 trades. Performance figures over so few trades are indistinguishable from luck."
  ],
  "opacity_warnings": null,
  "build_warnings": [
    "MT4_ONLY: the captured source is MQL4 / written for MetaTrader 4. It needs porting (order functions, indicator handles) before it runs on MT5."
  ],
  "canonical": "https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/7949-gold-apex-ea-mt4",
  "snapshot": "2026-10-31 15:46 UTC",
  "source_url": "https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/192995",
  "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."
}