100% FREE · USDJPY H1 · DONCHIAN BREAKOUT TREND
DONCHIAN ENGINE EA
The trend engine behind our paid EAs, released free with no limitations. It enters when a bar closes beyond the Donchian channel, puts a hard stop-loss on every trade, and then carries the position with an ATR trailing stop. One position at a time. No martingale, no grid, no averaging down.
Profit Factor
1.50
期待値
勝率
34.5%
631取引
最大DD
10.34%
証拠金DD
年率複利
+10.9%
+$1,090/年（$10,000基準）
⚡ Minimum deposit: from 100,000 JPY (standard account). For smaller or safer sizing, use a micro/cent account.
The default is 0.5% risk per trade, which runs at the minimum lot on a 100,000 JPY account. Use a micro (cent) account if you want to start smaller.
HOW IT WORKS — DONCHIAN BREAKOUT + ATR TRAILING STOP
How it works - Donchian breakout + ATR trailing stop
Hypothesis: in markets that actually trend, a close beyond the recent range tends to be followed by continuation. The edge does not come from entry accuracy - it comes from cutting losses small and letting the rare winner run.
- Entry: the previous bar closes beyond the channel built from the last N closed bars (default 40). The forming bar is never used, so nothing repaints.
- Exit: an ATR trailing stop (default 8x ATR) that only moves toward price and never loosens, plus a time-out after HoldBars (default 60) if the move never develops. There is no fixed take-profit.
- Risk control: a hard stop-loss on every trade (default 2x ATR). One position at a time. Lot size is derived from the real stop distance and clamped to the symbol's volume min/max/step/limit.
PARAMETERS
Parameters
| Parameter | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
| N_Channel | 40 | Donchian channel length (bars) |
| SL_ATR | 2.0 | Hard stop-loss distance (ATR multiple) |
| Trail_ATR | 8.0 | Trailing stop distance (ATR multiple) |
| HoldBars | 60 | Close the position after this many bars |
| AllowBuy / AllowSell | true / false | Trade upper breakouts (long) / lower breakouts (short). Long only by default |
| RiskPercent | 0.5 | Risk per trade (% of balance). Ignored if FixedLot > 0 |
| FixedLot | 0.0 | Fixed lot size (0 = use RiskPercent) |
📈MT5 Strategy Tester Report — DONCHIAN ENGINE EA
📋 About this report
- Official report generated by the MT5 Strategy Tester (real-tick data)
- Multi-year real price data with the every-tick (real ticks) model
- Balance curve (blue) / Equity curve (green) shows floating losses too
- Past results do not guarantee future profits
⚠ Where it does not work, and the risks
- This is trend following. It loses in ranges. A 34.5% win rate is the normal shape: many small losses, a few large winners. If you need to be right most of the time, this will feel awful even while it makes money.
- Donchian breakouts need markets that trend. In our own real-feed tests the logic does NOT work on ranging majors such as EURUSD, or on gold.
- The defaults are a USDJPY H1 configuration. On any other symbol or timeframe you must re-fit them - a breakout length rarely transfers between markets.
- There is no live forward record yet. The published numbers are a real-tick backtest on Dukascopy data.
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Also free on the MQL5 Market
If you would rather not register, download it from the MQL5 Market. An MT4 version and a free indicator that draws the same logic are available there too.