I spent months building an MT5 XAUUSD robot - here's what I learned about entry logic

The biggest shift in my approach was moving away from relying on a single indicator (which is essentially a coin flip) to a confluence scoring model. Instead of the robot entering a trade because one indicator triggered, it checks multiple, independent conditions. Each positive condition adds 1 point to a "score," and the trade only executes if that score exceeds a minimum threshold