Sniper Gold Hybrid Recovery v1.22
A buy-only gold averaging basket with no stop-loss. It wins almost every basket, then one bad day takes half the account.
- XAUUSD
- Buy only
- Averaging basket
- No stop-loss
- Free on MQL5 CodeBase
Rejected
Fails 3 of 6 checks.
Signed, SachinFX Lab
Tested 3 Sep 2026
The six Lab checks.
| Check | Result | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| 01Real ticks | PASS | Real ticks from January 2025 to August 2026 at 99 to 100% quality. The 2017 to 2024 runs use one-minute bars, which is enough for an EA that acts on M15 bar opens. |
| 02Out-of-sample | FAIL | 2025 made +129% with a 13% drawdown. January to July 2026 lost 70% with an 88.8% drawdown. Run continuously from 2017 to 2024, $1,000 became $363. |
| 03Live and verified | NOT ASSESSED | Backtests only. This verdict rests on the Lab’s own tests, not on a live account. |
| 04Real costs | PASS | IC Markets Raw commission of about $0.08 per 0.01 lot round turn, with swap switched on. |
| 05Robustness | FAIL | Without the rescue lot, the 19-month profit falls from +$1,000 to +$89. With a flat lot it loses $620.65 with a 90.8% drawdown. |
| 06Integrity | FAIL | It only buys: its 1,126 lines contain no sell entry and no stop-loss. The only loss exit fires when equity drops below half the balance. The news filter input changes nothing in the backtests. |
What we measured.
Drawdown first. Every figure comes from the Lab’s own backtests of the version named above.
- Max drawdown, tick window63.6%
January 2025 to August 2026 on real ticks: +$1,000 on a $1,000 start (+100%), profit factor 1.36 over 220 trades.
- Baskets won154 of 155
The one loser, on 19 March 2026, took the balance from $2,573.79 to $1,283.35 in 6 hours 15 minutes.
- 2017 to 2024, continuous$1,000 to $363
A 94.9% peak drawdown, on one-minute bars.
- Entry signal alone96.8% wins
Tested without the averaging, the entry won 96.8% of its trades and still lost $516 (profit factor 0.74).
- Buy and hold gold+138.9%
Holding one ounce over the same tick window made more, with a drawdown of about 19% and no robot.
- Leverage in deep baskets20 to 29×
Effective leverage with no stop-loss, held for days.
How we tested.
The settings files and reports go into a test pack, published with the final verdict.
- Market
- XAUUSD
- Data
- Real ticks, Jan 2025 to Aug 2026; one-minute bars, 2017 to 2024
- Costs
- IC Markets Raw commission, swap on
- Account
- $1,000, leverage 1:500, hedging
- Settings
- All 65 inputs pinned
- Version
- v1.22, CodeBase 76605
- Platform
- MT5 build 6140
- Runs
- 32 backtests
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