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KT Range Breakout EA
MT4/MT5

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Description

A breakout from the day's range can carry price for hours, but catching it means being at the screen at the right minute, every day. KT Range Breakout EA is a range breakout EA that does it for you: it marks the range you choose, places both orders and manages the trade to the end of the day.

Type the range in London, New York or broker time, set your stop loss, target and risk, and it follows that plan every day on any symbol. Every trade has its stop loss from the start, and the range stays at the right hour on any broker, through every daylight saving change.

Range breakout EA backtest balance curves for gold, EURUSD and USDJPY in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, January 2020 to October 2026

Range Breakout EA Features

Never miss a breakout: the EA is ready at the end of the range every trading day, places both orders and lets the market choose the side.
Your market, your range: trade any symbol your broker offers, with the range, stop loss, target and exit time you choose.
A head start with tested settings: built-in settings for Gold, EURUSD and USDJPY, chosen on 2020 to 2024, passed the test on 2025 to 2026 on all three markets.
The right hour on any broker: your range stays at the same London or New York time all year, whatever your broker's clock and daylight saving.
A loss you set in advance: you choose the risk per trade, and ranges too small for the day are skipped, so the lot never grows out of control.
One trade a day, nothing added to a losing trade: no grid, no martingale and no averaging, just one decision a day per market.
You always know why: when a day is skipped, the chart tells you the reason in plain words.
Pairs with KT Equity Protector EA: a trade closed by you or by another EA ends the day, so your daily loss limit stays in charge.

A Trading Day with KT Range Breakout EA

Before the range ends, the EA waits. Then it has the high and the low, checks that the day is worth trading, and places a buy stop above the range and a sell stop below it.

The first breakout fills, the other order disappears, and the stop loss is already in place. The trade runs to its take profit or is closed at the end of the trading window, and the EA gets ready for the next day. On the chart you see the range, the orders and the status of the day.

Backtest Results for Gold, EURUSD and USDJPY

MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, January 2020 to October 2026, 5 minute chart, starting balance 10,000, spread from the price history, no commission. The screenshots show each market at the highest risk that kept the drawdown under 30%, printed at the top of every image.

Market	Risk	Net profit	Profit factor	Recovery factor	Max drawdown	Trades
Gold (XAUUSD)	3%	+464.9%	1.27	4.04	27.99%	677
EURUSD	3.5%	+1,023.6%	1.44	4.61	25.09%	461
USDJPY	2%	+1,930.0%	1.35	5.19	25.67%	1,273

The settings were chosen on 2020 to 2024. Run on their own from January 2025 to October 2026 at the same risk, they made +56.9% on gold (profit factor 1.28), +91.8% on EURUSD (1.51) and +152.4% on USDJPY (1.48).

The EA installs at 1% risk per trade, and the risk is your choice. At 1%, the same tests made:

Market	Net profit	Max drawdown
Gold (XAUUSD)	+83.1%	9.61%
EURUSD	+108.2%	7.77%
USDJPY	+387.1%	13.60%

Recommendations

Markets: any symbol with Custom settings. Built-in tested settings for XAUUSD, EURUSD and USDJPY (your broker may call gold GOLD).
Chart timeframe: any.
Account: MT4, or MT5 hedging or netting, with 1% risk above the broker's minimum lot.
VPS: recommended, so the EA is running at the end of the range and at the end of the trading window.

Input Settings

KT Range Breakout EA input settings in MetaTrader, part 1 of 3

KT Range Breakout EA input settings in MetaTrader, part 2 of 3

KT Range Breakout EA input settings in MetaTrader, part 3 of 3

Input	What it does
Settings (a tested market, or Custom for the inputs below) Default: Gold (XAUUSD), tested settings	Pick a tested market, or Custom to use your own range and exits.
Time zone of the times below Default: New York	The time zone of your Custom range: New York, London or broker time.
Range start (hh:mm) Default: 08:00	When the Custom range begins.
Range end (hh:mm) Default: 08:30	When the Custom range ends and the orders are placed.
Last entry time (hh:mm): no new trade after it Default: 11:00	Orders that have not filled by then are removed.
Exit time (hh:mm): an open trade is closed Default: 12:00	Closes a trade that is still open.
Entry type Default: Stop orders	Or Candle close outside the range.
Stop loss at Default: Other side of the range	Or Middle of the range.
Take profit, times the range size (0 = close at exit time) Default: 1.0	The target as a multiple of the range size.
Lot size from Default: Risk percent of balance	Or a fixed amount of money, or a fixed lot.
Risk per trade, % of balance Default: 1.0	The loss at the stop loss, as a percent of the balance.
Broker time (Automatic on live charts) Default: Automatic	Manual is for the Strategy Tester, with your broker's GMT offset.
Avoid high impact news Default: true	MT5: no new orders around high impact news for the symbol's currencies.

Pro Tip

Put Gold, EURUSD and USDJPY on three charts of the same account, each with its own Magic number. Each chart holds one trade at a time, so at 1% risk no more than 3% of the balance is ever at risk, and you collect the breakouts of all three markets.

Frequently Asked Questions

Will it trade the right range on my broker?

Yes. It finds your broker's time zone and daylight saving on its own, so the range stays at the same London or New York time all year, on any broker.

Can I trade my own range?

Yes. Choose Custom in Settings and type your own range, last entry and exit times in London, New York or broker time, with your own stop loss and take profit.

How do I match a screenshot?

Choose the market in Settings, set Risk per trade to the risk printed on the image, and run January 2020 to October 2026 on the 5 minute chart. In the Strategy Tester, set Broker time to Manual with your broker's GMT offset. Your broker's prices decide the exact figures, so expect close numbers.

How often does it trade?

With the built-in settings, about 100 trades a year on gold, 70 on EURUSD and 190 on USDJPY, never more than one a day per chart.

What account size do I need?

Any balance where 1% risk is above the broker's minimum lot at the day's stop loss. When it is not, the EA skips the trade, or uses the minimum lot if you choose that in the inputs.

MT4 or MT5?

Both trade the same rules with the same built-in settings. The news filter reads the economic calendar of MetaTrader 5, so it is part of the MT5 version.

Your Breakout, Every Day

Set your range and your risk, or start from the tested settings, and let KT Range Breakout EA be at the screen for every breakout, with the stop loss in place before price moves.