XAUUSD H2 — Optimised Settings

Minimum account balance — $3,271.14

Running 0.01 lot on XAUUSD at 1:500 leverage needs about $3,271.14 of balance. The binding constraint is drawdown budget.

• Margin is charged on notional value, so one 0.01-lot USD-quoted position costs $10.31; the peak stack of 0.08 lots therefore needed $82.47.
• Margin is not released while a position is underwater. At the worst moment the stack carried $1,707.08 of floating loss on top of that margin, which is why $1,789.55 is the floor, not $82.47.
• The drawdown budget is the real requirement on most of these presets: $3,271.14 = 2.0 x the $1,635.57 worst backtest drawdown. Half of that is the headroom that makes the strategy survivable rather than merely funded.

Burn-in note: this is a grid with no stop loss (InpStopLoss = 0, so losses are only closed by the basket TP or the protection switch) at 76% exposure, so the tail is unbounded in principle. The figure above is sized on this 19-month sample; a sustained trend can exceed it.