Hi team, we’ve received a number of questions about why the XAU/USD automation hasn’t taken a position in the past 10+ days. As you can see from the attached chart, the market has been extremely range-bound, with low-quality structure and no sustained directional flow. These conditions are not optimal for a trend-based system, and this is exactly where our filters do their job. Instead of forcing trades in a choppy environment and accumulating unnecessary drawdown, the algorithm stays defensive and waits for clean momentum and validated structure before entering the market. This is a feature, not a bug. Our priority is long-term consistency, stable equity curves, and minimal drawdown. The system is designed to trade only when probabilities are in our favor, and avoid environments that historically produce poor performance. Once the market transitions out of this sideways phase and valid signals appear, the algo will re-engage automatically. Patience is part of the edge.

Just realized that the APEX INDICATOR is 1 year old… I had some high hopes on this as it was futures market based. I would like to see some optimization setups applied to this in the future. I have been able to modify its settings to fit a few different settings. I am curious if anyone had any settings to share ? One way I was able to try to adjust it is to load tradealgo optimized settings ups and load apex. Tune the apex to close settings of the tradealgo on the strategy tester. Testing the settings and adjust from there…

Heartfelt congratulations to the creators of Funded Algo. Using this outstanding algorithm as a foundation, I developed a strategy (Long only) specifically for gold — more precisely, for the 45min chart — which has yielded very promising results. The quality and reliability of Funded Algo played a key role in the success of this approach. ✅ 96% winning trades 📊 High profit factor 📉 Low drawdown 💸 Low gross losses 🪙 Tested across all gold market conditions over the past 2.5 years Absolutely outstanding performance. Your work made this possible — keep it up! 🙌 The following results are presented for the periods: - From January 1, 2023 to today - From January 1, 2024 to today - And finally, from January 1, 2025 to today

Hey team, I want to briefly update you on today’s situation with XAUUSD. Earlier today, the CME experienced a technical outage that caused gold futures to freeze. Because most CFD brokers rely on CME pricing for liquidity feeds, this led to abnormal price behavior across multiple platforms — including sudden execution spikes and broken price continuity. There were no macroeconomic events or scheduled news releases that could explain this move. The price action was purely a result of the CME malfunction, which created extremely unsafe trading conditions. Due to this, we decided to manually close the XAUUSD automation until the market stabilizes and liquidity returns to normal. Risk comes first — trading during broken market feeds is unpredictable and can lead to distorted fills or invalid stop-loss executions. Below is a link to Bloomberg confirming the CME outage: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-11-28/cme-commodity-futures-trading-halted-after-data-center-glitch We’ll resume normal operations once the market environment is safe again. If you have questions — feel free to reach out. https://tradealgorithm.co.uk/support

Hi everyone, I thought id start a conversation on prop firms that allow or disallow EA trading. Does anyone have any preferred prop firms they use and can vouch for? Thanks paul