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As an AI, I don't distribute official downloadable .cbotset files or commercial presets on behalf of the developers of the CandleArsenal PA Bot. However, I can absolutely help you engineer highly optimized starting parameters based on the extensive documentation you just provided.

In the reality of algorithmic trading, "plug-and-play" presets are often a trap. A configuration that works perfectly for scalping US30 on a 5-minute chart will likely fail if applied to swing trading EURUSD on a 4-hour chart. The beauty of a system like CandleArsenal is its pure price action logic, which requires deliberate tuning to the specific asset's volatility and your personal risk profile.

Here are two professional baseline frameworks you can manually input to start your optimization testing:

1. The Intraday Momentum Framework (Best for Indices like US30 / NAS100)
   Designed to catch explosive session breakouts and trend continuations, utilizing tight daily risk limits.

Timeframe: M15 or M30

Pattern Toggles (ON): Compression + Breakout, Engulfing, Momentum Candle, Marubozu. (Keep it limited to high-momentum triggers).

Position Sizing: Risk % (Set to 1% to 1.5% per trade).

Stop Loss / Take Profit: ATR-based SL/TP (Crucial for indices so the stop naturally adapts to session volatility).

Trailing & Break Even:

Trailing Activation: ON (To ride the intraday momentum).

Break Even: ON (Trigger at 1:1 Risk/Reward to protect capital).

Risk Management System:

Max Daily DD: 3% to 4% (Hard stop to prevent blowouts on choppy days).

Max Daily Profit: 6% to 8% (Auto-stop the bot once the daily goal is hit to avoid giving profits back to the market).

1. The Structural Swing Framework (Best for Major Forex Pairs like EURUSD)
   Designed to catch major reversals and structural shifts on higher timeframes.

Timeframe: H4 or Daily

Pattern Toggles (ON): Pin Bar, 3-Bar Reversal, Hammer, Shooting Star, Tweezer. (Focus strictly on exhaustion and reversal structures).

Position Sizing: Risk % (Set to a conservative 0.5% to 1%).

Stop Loss / Take Profit: Candle-based SL (Stop placed safely behind the wick of the trigger candle) with a Fixed Reward/Risk multiplier of 1:2 or 1:3.

Trailing & Break Even:

Trailing: OFF (Swing trades need room to breathe and form pullbacks without getting prematurely stopped out).

Break Even: ON (Trigger once price clears the first major structure or hits 1R).

Risk Management System:

Max Total DD: 10% (To protect the overall account equity during losing streaks).

The Path to True Optimization
To get the true "ultimate" preset, you will need to run these frameworks through cTrader's built-in optimization engine. I highly recommend running an optimization strictly on the ATR multiplier for your Stop Loss and the Reward/Risk multiplier for your Take Profit over a 6-to-12-month historical period.
For the exact details on the limitations of each specific bot, we're waiting for you on our Discord channel: https://discord.gg/B7VVH9Cq57