BH Pulse

Gold breakout scalper

Fast entries and exits
Short holds
Four built-in settings

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At a glance

Specs, settings and what you can adjust

Type: Expert Advisor (trades automatically)
Market: Gold (XAUUSD)
Platform: MetaTrader 5, on any XAUUSD chart
Version: 1.03
Settings: 4 built-in settings, chosen with one input
You can adjust: Account size, daily loss stop, fixed lot size (Setting 4)
Tested on: Vantage (Vantage Markets (Pty) Ltd), 1:100 leverage
Comes with: A full user guide
How to get it: A licence or the MQL5 Market

Best month

Pulse's strongest month of the year, re-run as its own MetaTrader 5 test. Tap it to see the report.

Hand-picked after testing. This is the best month, not a typical one. Judge Pulse on the full 12 months and its drawdown below.

Setting 3 Could suit prop challenges, higher risk · $10,000 start Best month+13.0% 16 May – 16 Jun 2026 Profit factor21.94 Max drawdown1.9% Trades98 Won96%

MetaTrader 5 balance chart: Pulse, Setting 3, best month, 16 May – 16 Jun 2026

MetaTrader 5 balance chart for this month

The full 12 months

5 Nov 2025 – 5 Nov 2026 on Setting 3 (could suit prop challenges, higher risk), starting with $10,000. Every trade, the good months and the bad.

Net result+49.4%

Profit factor1.83

Max drawdown7.1%

Win rate65%

Trades949

Longest losing run38

MetaTrader 5 results for Pulse, Setting 3, full 12 months, with the balance chart — MetaTrader 5's balance chart for the whole test.

How it trades

BH Pulse is a fast breakout scalper for gold. It looks for short, sharp moves and aims to be in and out quickly.

Reacts to price as it moves rather than waiting for a bar to close.
A stop-loss on every trade and a time limit, so holds stay short: about 39 minutes on average.
Settings 1 to 3 size each trade from your account size; Setting 4 uses a fixed lot size you choose.
A daily loss stop you can adjust, and a spread cap: no new trades while the spread is wide.

What to expect

Pulse wins about 65% of its trades, but scalping depends heavily on spread and execution, so results on your broker can differ more than for slower EAs. The longest losing run in the full test was 38 trades.

Every test we ran

8 MetaTrader 5 tests

All 4 settings over the full 12 months, then every best-period window. Each row is its own MetaTrader 5 test on Vantage XAUUSD data; tap Report to see it.

Swipe the tables sideways to see every column.

Full 12 months, every setting

Setting	Period	Start	Net	PF	Balance DD	Equity DD	Trades	Won	Tick data	MT5
Setting 1Could suit prop challenges, lower risk	5 Nov 2025 – 5 Nov 2026	$10,000	+31.0%	2.15	3.2%	3.9%	811	74%	100%	Report
Setting 2Could suit prop challenges, standard risk	5 Nov 2025 – 5 Nov 2026	$10,000	+42.0%	1.90	6.4%	7.5%	974	73%	100%	Report
Setting 3Could suit prop challenges, higher risk	5 Nov 2025 – 5 Nov 2026	$10,000	+49.4%	1.83	6.2%	7.1%	949	65%	100%	Report
Setting 4Could suit prop accounts, fixed lot size	5 Nov 2025 – 5 Nov 2026	$10,000	+24.5%	1.53	7.3%	8.6%	1,079	72%	100%	Report

Best periods

Setting	Period	Start	Net	PF	Balance DD	Equity DD	Trades	Won	Tick data	MT5
Setting 3Best 1 monthCould suit prop challenges, higher risk	16 May – 16 Jun 2026	$10,000	+13.0%	21.94	0.4%	1.9%	98	96%	100%	Report
Setting 1Best 1 monthCould suit prop challenges, lower risk	4 Aug – 4 Sep 2026	$10,000	+7.4%	5.89	0.8%	1.8%	124	90%	100%	Report
Setting 2Best 1 monthCould suit prop challenges, standard risk	4 Aug – 4 Sep 2026	$10,000	+9.7%	5.80	0.8%	1.8%	140	86%	100%	Report
Setting 4Best 1 monthCould suit prop accounts, fixed lot size	16 May – 16 Jun 2026	$10,000	+10.5%	33.25	0.3%	1.4%	111	97%	100%	Report

PF: Profit factor: money made on winners divided by money lost on losers.
Balance / Equity DD: MetaTrader's relative drawdown: the largest fall from a peak, as a percentage. Equity includes trades still open. Everywhere else on this page, "Max DD" is the larger of the two.
Tick data: The share of real ticks in the test history. 100% is best; lower means part of the test used modelled prices.
Settings: Each setting is built into the EA and chosen with one input. The "could suit" notes are examples only, not recommendations: choose and adjust the settings to suit your own account, rules and risk.

Please read before you run Pulse

Back-tested, not live

Every figure here comes from the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester on Vantage XAUUSD data. Back-tests are hypothetical: they don't include every real-world cost, such as slippage, swap changes or your own broker's spread, and they don't guarantee future results.

The best month is hand-picked

It's the strongest month we found, chosen after testing. Judge Pulse on the full 12 months and the drawdown, not on its best month.

You still need to manage it

An EA is a tool, not a hands-off income. Check it every day, choose the Setting and loss limits to suit your account and your prop firm's rules, watch for broker, VPS or connection problems, and pause it around events you're unsure of.

Trading is risky

Gold CFDs are leveraged, and you can lose money quickly, including more than you expect when the market gaps. Only trade with money you can afford to lose. Nothing on this site is investment advice.