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Practical guides to XAUUSD, MetaTrader 5, Expert Advisors, grid trading and risk — the mechanics and the maths, without the hype.
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Each guide covers a topic end to end and links to the articles that go deeper.
XAUUSD trading guide
What Is XAUUSD? Gold Trading ExplainedXAUUSD is the price of one troy ounce of gold in US dollars. How the quote works, what one lot is worth, what it costs to trade, and why gold behaves the way it does.
MT5 Expert Advisor guide
What Is an Expert Advisor (EA) in MetaTrader 5?An Expert Advisor is a program that trades inside the MT5 terminal. How EAs work, what they can and cannot do, where they fail, and how to evaluate one before it touches real money.
Grid trading guide
What Is Grid Trading?A grid strategy opens positions at fixed price intervals and closes them together at a profit target. How grids work, why they win often, how they lose, and the numbers that decide which.
Drawdown and risk guide
Trading Drawdown ExplainedDrawdown is the fall of an account from its peak. How to calculate it, the difference between balance and equity drawdown, maximum and daily drawdown, and how to set limits that actually protect an account.
Topics
Gold / XAUUSD5
How spot gold trades against the US dollar: contract size, spreads, sessions, what moves the price, and how position size turns a price move into money.
MetaTrader 53
Practical MT5 guides for running Expert Advisors: installing them, the settings that let them trade, margin and account figures, and the Strategy Tester.
Automated Trading1
What automation changes about trading and what it does not: how Expert Advisors make decisions, where they fail, and how to supervise one.
Grid Trading6
The mechanics and the risk of grid strategies: spacing, lot multipliers, basket take-profit, and why drawdown in a grid grows the way it does.
Risk Management3
Drawdown, leverage, margin and recovery maths — the numbers that decide whether an account survives a bad run.
Backtesting1
Testing a strategy on history without fooling yourself: data quality, the MT5 Strategy Tester, and reading results critically.
Trading Infrastructure1
Where an automated strategy actually runs: terminals, VPS hosting, latency, uptime and what happens when the connection drops.
Foundations
Gold / XAUUSD
XAUUSD Trading Hours: When Is Gold Most Active?
Gold trades about 23 hours a day, five days a week. When the week opens and closes, the daily break, the four sessions, and the hours when XAUUSD moves most.
5 min read
Gold / XAUUSD
XAUUSD Lot Size Explained
What one lot of gold is, what 0.01 lot is worth per $1 move, and how to size a XAUUSD position from your account balance, risk per trade and stop distance.
4 min read
MetaTrader 5
How to Install an EA on MT5
Step by step: where the EA file goes in MetaTrader 5, how to make it appear in the Navigator, attach it to a chart, set its inputs, and confirm it is actually running.
4 min read
Grid Trading
Grid Trading vs Martingale
A grid decides where positions open; a martingale decides how big they are. How the two differ, how they combine in most grid EAs, and what each does to recovery and to risk.
3 min read
Risk Management
Why a 50% Loss Requires a 100% Gain to Recover
Gains and losses are percentages of different amounts, so recovering from a loss always takes a bigger gain. The formula, a full table, how long recovery takes, and what it means for risk limits.
4 min read
Risk Management
Leverage in XAUUSD Trading Explained
Leverage decides how much margin a gold position needs, not how much it makes or loses per dollar. What 1:100 really means, effective leverage, regulatory limits, and how leverage changes where an account is stopped out.
4 min read
Latest articles
Gold / XAUUSD
What Moves the Price of Gold?
5 min read
Gold / XAUUSD
XAUUSD Spread Explained
3 min read
MetaTrader 5
How to Enable Algorithmic Trading in MT5
3 min read
Backtesting
How to Backtest an EA in MT5
5 min read
Trading Infrastructure
Do You Need a VPS to Run an MT5 EA?
4 min read
Grid Trading
How Grid Spacing Works
4 min read
AURAX
See the mechanics running on a real MT5 account
AURAX is an automated XAUUSD strategy that runs in your own MetaTrader 5 terminal, with hard drawdown limits and a live portal. The live performance page shows the equity curve and the drawdowns, not just the returns.