Pipsgrowth EX02013 Breakout

EX02013 is a dual-confirmation breakout engine designed for the H1 chart of XAUUSD, XAGUSD, EURUSD, and USDJPY. The EA does not chase a single indicator — it requires two independent structural breaks to agree before it will commit capital. The first gate is a classic Donchian channel on a user-selectable timeframe (InpDonchianTF=4 maps to H1, period 20, shift 1): a long only fires when the previous bar's close prints above the channel upper boundary, and a short only fires when the previous close prints below the lower boundary. The second gate is a Jurik Moving Average, computed inline via the CalcJMA() loop using length 14, phase 0, and power 0.45; the GetJMASignal() helper compares the current JMA value against the prior bar's JMA and turns bullish when the curve is rising, bearish when it is falling. Both gates must point in the same direction on the same evaluation tick before GetCombinedSignal() returns a non-zero direction — if Donchian says long but JMA is flat or falling, no trade. The shift-1 anchor on both signals means EX02013 only reacts to completed bars, not to in-progress candle spikes, which removes a large class of false-break entries that plague lower-timeframe breakout bots.

What sets EX02013 apart from a textbook Donchian bot is its post-entry management stack. The position opens with a hard stop at InpHardSL_Points=1000 (1,000 points, i.e. 10 pips on a 5-digit broker or 100 pips on a 3-digit XAUUSD quote) and a take-profit at InpFixedTP_Points=2000, giving a default 1:2 reward-to-risk. From there, two trailing regimes take over. The first is ManageProfitLock(): once profit reaches InpLock_StartDistance=500 points, the EA ratchets the stop loss to price minus InpLock_BreathDistance=300 points, but only when the new stop is at least InpLock_Step=50 points further into profit than the previous one — this prevents the broker's stops_level from causing constant rejected modify requests. The second is ManageTightening(): when profit climbs past InpTighten_TriggerProfit=1500 points, the EA switches to a tighter mode with InpTighten_BreathDistance=150 points and InpTighten_Step=20 points, hugging the price much more closely. Tightening is the de-facto partial-exit substitute: instead of closing half the position, it locks most of the unrealized gain and lets the runner continue.

Pyramiding is enabled by default (InpEnablePyramiding=true) with a cap of InpPyramid_MaxLevels=3 entries per direction. Two preconditions gate every pyramid add: AreAllPositionsSecured() verifies that every existing position in the direction already has its stop above break-even by at least InpPyramid_SecureProfit=200 points, and IsDistanceEnough() requires the new entry to sit at least InpPyramid_MinDistPoints=500 points away from the most recent open price. This combination prevents the EA from adding into a losing cluster or stacking orders on top of each other when price is choppy. The position sizing is risk-based through InpLots(): with InpRiskPercent=0.5 the EA risks 0.5% of account balance per trade, then walks the lot down to the symbol's volume step, enforces the minimum, and caps the result at both the symbol's max volume and InpMaxLot=5.0. Setting InpFixedLots to any value above zero overrides the risk calculation and trades a flat size, useful for prop-firm accounts that prefer fixed-notion sizing.

The no-trade gate is the largest in EX02013. The EA trades inside two user-defined GMT windows: London 7-16 and New York 12-21 (InpUseGMTSessions=true), and blocks weekends via the day_of_week check in InActiveSession_EX02013(). Server time is normalized to GMT through DetectGMTOffset_EX02013(), which scans offsets from -12 to +12 and picks the one that yields a weekday hour between 7 and 21, providing automatic broker alignment without manual configuration. The spread filter rejects entries when the current (ask-bid)/_Point exceeds InpMaxSpreadPoints=200, a loose setting chosen for XAUUSD's variable liquidity. Daily loss (InpDailyLossLimit), weekly loss (InpWeeklyLossLimit), equity floor (InpEquityFloor), equity-percent-of-initial floor (InpMinEquityPct=70), and a global InpMaxDDPct=20 kill switch all default to off or to lenient values — the user enables the strict variants per their broker and risk tolerance. The InpMaxTradesPerDay=20 ceiling caps the EA's daily activity, and the OnTradeTransaction handler tracks consecutive losses to fire a configurable cooldown (InpCooldownMinutes) once the user-defined threshold (InpMaxConsecLosses) is reached.

Order execution is hardened against requote storms: TryBuy_EX02013() and TrySell_EX02013() each retry up to three times at 200ms intervals on TRADE_RETCODE_REQUOTE, TRADE_RETCODE_TIMEOUT, TRADE_RETCODE_PRICE_OFF, or TRADE_RETCODE_PRICE_CHANGED, and they pre-check margin via OrderCalcMargin() before sending. The fills happen at the live ask/bid inside the retry loop, so even after a price-changed rejection the EA re-quotes against the fresh quote. Position modifications go through TryModify_EX02013(), which quantizes the new stop to the symbol's tick size before sending and also retries three times. The OnTester() fitness function combines recovery factor with profit factor (rf × pf) and gates on trade count ≥ 10, drawdown ≤ InpMaxDDPct, and net profit > 0, which prevents the optimiser from selecting parameter sets that look sharp in-sample but blow up the account out-of-sample.

EX02013 in practice behaves like a trend-respecting breakout hunter that refuses to enter until two independent measures agree, and once in, aggressively locks gains through the two-stage trailing system. It is not a tick-scalper, not a martingale, and not a grid — it is a H1 breakout EA with explicit pyramid rules and an unusually disciplined trailing framework. The InpDryRun input lets the user dry-log every signal without sending orders, which is the recommended first step on a new symbol to confirm the Donchian and JMA timeframes produce aligned signals at the trader's preferred session overlap. The InpKillSwitch input is a panic button that immediately flattens every position with magic 22202013 and stops further entries. Both default to false, and the EA ships ready to trade on XAUUSD H1 out of the box with the default 1:2 risk-reward geometry and the London/New York session windows active.