GHX-02 is designed for decisive gold breakouts through a level the market has defended more than once. It waits for a completed candle to confirm genuine expansion, avoids late entries, and defines invalidation before any order can be placed.
What it does: Identifies a horizontal level gold has defended on two separate occasions. Requires expansion — a decisive close through the level, not a wick. Avoids a break when price is already extended or the hourly market is pushing the other way.
When it works: London open after a tight Asian range. Volatility expansion regimes. After a catalyst gives gold a fresh reason to move.
When it struggles: Chop, where every edge is broken and reclaimed. Pre-data sessions with false starts. Wide ranges, where the stop distance stops making sense.
What the trader controls: Risk per trade, as a percentage of the account or a cash amount. Daily loss limit — once hit, no new entries for the rest of the London trading day. Maximum open positions on gold at any one time. Sessions it may trade, and whether high-impact news blocks new entries. You can switch the model off at any time, and reducing or closing risk is never blocked.
The method behind Breakout Expansion is documented under XAU session breakout at https://goldhunts.com/gold-strategies/xau-session-breakout. Gold Hunts publishes win rate and sample size for closed XAUUSD trades only — never profit or loss figures, and never a projection.
GHX-02 Breakout Expansion v2.0 is designed for a specific gold market behaviour and records a plain-English reason for every decision. Coming to forward testing. It is not yet available for account activation. During its trading window, it assesses each completed 15-minute candle and reviews an open position after each completed 5-minute candle.
Its approach to gold: It looks for a horizontal price level that gold has defended on two separate occasions, with a genuine retreat away from the level in between — one touch is not a level. It only considers a trade when a completed 15-minute candle closes through that level with a measurably wider range than the candles before it and a strong close in the direction of the break. It declines the break if price has already run too far beyond the level, if the candle gapped away from it, or if the hourly picture is pushing the other way. A trade carries a stop back on the far side of the level and a target at twice that distance, both fixed before the order is sent. It leaves early if a completed 5-minute candle closes back through the level it broke, and it will not hold a trade past its time limit or the session cutoff. If the conditions are not all present, it records a wait with the one reason that stopped it.
Its dedicated public ledger is at https://goldhunts.com/gold-models/ghx-02-breakout-expansion/ledger. The record begins with the first eligible demonstration forward-test trade and will include every closed result, whether it wins or loses. Nothing is backfilled with simulations. Customer trades are never published. Results are shown in net R with gross R alongside, and sample size is always visible. Demonstration results do not represent live trading.
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