What Gator Advanced EA does
AIMS Gator Advanced EA trades the breakout from a quiet market. While the Gator sleeps, it keeps stop orders just beyond the outermost fractals, and moves them each bar as the corridor changes.
Sleep Detection
The Gator sleeps when its lines are tangled or less than 0.5 ATR apart. Its position against the Purple line decides the side: above is a bull watch, below a bear watch, across is the Saddle Point.
Fractal Bracket
The buy stop sits 1 pip above the latest fractal high above all the lines, and the sell stop 1 pip below the latest fractal low beneath them. Each order’s stop loss is the other side of the corridor.
Free Trade and Teeth Trail
At +1R the EA closes half the position, then trails the stop forward only along the Teeth. A trade in profit closes when a candle closes across the Lips.
How to trade Gator Advanced EA
Attach and License
Attach the EA to the chart of the symbol you want to trade and enter your Serial Key in Inputs. Until then the chart shows LOCKED and no orders are placed.
Choose a Direction Mode
Hybrid trades the sleeping side and straddles at the Saddle Point. Strict Trend never straddles. Always Straddle places both sides during any sleep.
Set Risk and Session
Choose risk % or a fixed lot, and the session window in server time. New entries only happen inside the session.
Let It Manage
The EA moves its stop orders with the corridor and deletes them when the Gator wakes. When one side fills, the opposite stop is cancelled.
Setups and chart grammar
The EA reads the Gator once per closed bar. It manages open positions on every tick.
| Setup | Context | What the EA sees | Goal |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bull Watch | Gator asleep, whole Gator above the Purple line | A fractal high above all the lines and a fractal low below them | Buy Stop 1 pip above the fractal high, stop loss 1 pip below the fractal low |
| Bear Watch | Gator asleep, whole Gator below the Purple line | The same fractal corridor | Sell Stop 1 pip below the fractal low, stop loss 1 pip above the fractal high |
| Saddle Point | Gator asleep across the Purple line | The same fractal corridor | Both stops in Hybrid or Always Straddle mode; none in Strict Trend |
| Cancel | Pending stops open | The Gator wakes, or the corridor is wider than 2.5 ATR | Delete the pending stops |
Above the corridor while the Gator sleeps.
Below the corridor while the Gator sleeps.
Half banked at +1R; the runner trails the Teeth.
No valid Serial Key: no orders, no management.
The Corridor Gate
The bracket is only placed while the corridor is narrow enough. Its width is the risk of each order.
width = (fractal high + 1 pip) - (fractal low - 1 pip) delete stops if width > 2.5 x ATR(14) skip if spread > Max spread skip if price is already > 5 pips beyond the entry
Settings
| Input | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial Key | String | (empty) | Licence key from the member portal. Without a valid key the EA stays locked and neither opens nor manages trades. |
| Auto-Profile | Boolean | true | Adds a magic-number offset for the chart symbol (GER40, NAS100, US30, XAUUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, EURUSD). |
| Direction Mode | Enum | Hybrid | Hybrid: the sleeping side only, both sides at the Saddle Point. Strict Trend: the sleeping side only, never both. Always Straddle: both sides during any sleep. |
| Max concurrent runners | Integer | 2 | A new trade opens only when every open runner is already Free. Netting accounts allow one. |
| Session Filter | Boolean | true | Restricts new entries to the session window. Open runners are kept beyond it. |
| Session start / end | String | 08:00 / 17:30 | Session window in broker server time (HH:MM). |
| Risk % sizing | Boolean | true | Sizes each trade from the distance to its stop loss. |
| Risk % per trade | Float | 1.0 | Percentage of balance risked per trade when risk sizing is on. |
| Fixed lot | Float | 0.10 | Lot size when risk sizing is off. |
| Max spread (pips) | Float | 25.0 | No new order while the spread is wider than this. |
| Max slippage (points) | Integer | 30 | Maximum slippage accepted on execution. |
| Magic number | Integer | 108160 | Identifies this EA’s trades. Auto-Profile adds a per-symbol offset. |
| Input | Type | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serial Key | String | (empty) | Licence key from the member portal. Without a valid key the EA stays locked and neither opens nor manages trades. |
| Auto-Profile | Boolean | true | Adds a magic-number offset for the chart symbol (GER40, NAS100, US30, XAUUSD, GBPUSD, USDJPY, EURUSD). |
| Direction Mode | Enum | Hybrid | Hybrid: the sleeping side only, both sides at the Saddle Point. Strict Trend: the sleeping side only, never both. Always Straddle: both sides during any sleep. |
| Max concurrent runners | Integer | 2 | A new trade opens only when every open runner is already Free. Netting accounts allow one. |
| Session Filter | Boolean | true | Restricts new entries to the session window. Open runners are kept beyond it. |
| Session start / end | String | 08:00 / 17:30 | Session window in broker server time (HH:MM). |
| Risk % sizing | Boolean | true | Sizes each trade from the distance to its stop loss. |
| Risk % per trade | Float | 1.0 | Percentage of balance risked per trade when risk sizing is on. |
| Fixed lot | Float | 0.10 | Lot size when risk sizing is off. |
| Max spread (pips) | Float | 25.0 | No new order while the spread is wider than this. |
| Max slippage (points) | Integer | 30 | Maximum slippage accepted on execution. |
| Magic number | Integer | 108160 | Identifies this EA’s trades. Auto-Profile adds a per-symbol offset. |
Frequently asked questions
When the Lips, Teeth and Jaws are not in trend order, or are less than 0.5 ATR(14) apart. Once they open wider in order, the Gator is awake and pending stops are deleted.
