# Gold Volatility Sentinel

A disciplined, rule-based approach to gold's volatility windows, placing asymmetric breakout orders at fixed session transitions.

Canonical: https://prismaticalgos.com/compendium/algo/9110-gold-volatility-sentinel
Record ID: 9110
Catalog rank: 2389 (reading order, not performance)
Snapshot: 2026-10-31 15:46 UTC
Family: Risk, Money Management & Portfolio Overlays (J)
Source: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/188110
Evidence label (unverified): backtest_shown

## Scope and 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.

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## Extraction warnings

Claim warnings: HIGH WIN RATE: claimed 88.46%. 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.; HIGH PROFIT FACTOR: claimed 4.11. Treat as an in-sample or curve-fitted figure until reproduced out of sample.

## Recorded profile

- symbols: XAUUSD
- timeframes: any
- sessions: Asian session transition, London session transition, New York session transition
- market_regime: volatile

## Indicators

- ATR: {}; applied to: close

## Recorded long-entry rules

- current price + ATR distance

## Recorded short-entry rules

- current price - wider ATR distance

## Recorded exit rules

- trailing stop

## Recorded filters

- none explicitly stated

## Risk controls

- Stop loss: not explicitly stated, but implied by the use of trailing stop
- Take profit: not explicitly stated, but implied by the use of trailing stop
- Position sizing: sized by real-time ATR, not a fixed distance