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Practical notes on trading gold (XAUUSD) on MetaTrader 5 within prop-firm style rules
Short, practical articles about the rules and mechanics around trading gold on
MetaTrader 5: how daily limits are counted, what to check on a prop-firm account, and how the
tools in Spectar FX Gold work. No market calls, no signals, no promises.
3 October 2026 · 6 min
Most daily loss rules reset at midnight — but whose midnight? Why the broker server
clock in your MetaTrader 5 decides when the trading day starts, three common traps, and how
Spectar FX Gold counts the day of your daily limits.
3 October 2026 · 6 min
A checklist before the first trade on a challenge or funded account: whether automation is
allowed, how the loss limits are measured, news and weekend rules, the gold symbol name and
contract size, and the technical setup in MetaTrader 5.
3 October 2026 · 5 min
How the Lot Panel adds to or partly closes your open position with one click, how the manual
hedge works, what to watch for on a prop-firm account, and which plans include it.
3 October 2026 · 6 min
Two firms, two rule books, two terminals and two server clocks: how to set up gold on two
MetaTrader 5 accounts at once, and how the additional MT5 account add-on works.
See the plans. MANUAL €49, SEMIAUTO €85, AUTO €125 per month, plus VAT
— every number set by you. MANUAL monthly starts with an 8-day free trial (card required;
€49 + VAT/month starts automatically unless you cancel before the trial ends).
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Not financial advice. Trading involves risk. Trading leveraged CFDs such as gold
(XAUUSD) carries a high risk of losing your entire capital. Past performance is no guarantee
of future results. Spectar FX Gold is a tool: the trading rules run on our server within
numbers you set yourself; we set no number for you, recommend none and do not assess whether
trading is suitable for you. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by or a partner of any
proprietary trading firm or broker; names of firms are used only to describe common rules.