Goldcracker

I tried to use this signal as part of a portfolio, and while I still think it's likely going to remain profitable long-term (2+ months), it no longer meets my current requirements. There are enough competing signals that are better suited for me.

As I recall, just before I subscribed, it was showing a monthly growth of ~20% and a maximum drawdown of ~8%. This ratio wasn't ideal, but acceptable for my use. Unfortunately, it went into larger drawdown soon thereafter, currently showing a loss over the recent month and a maximum balance drawdown of ~18%. I'm looking for something more consistent and/or more profitable. So I'll move on.

The primary kind of trades here lock tiny profits yet risk larger losses. That's fine on its own (and was known to me in advance), as long as the losing trades are rare as they were. What happened this time is there were several losses concurrently and on nearby days - more than ever before. For subsequent recovery, a more traditional trading style was used, with positions held for longer trying to lock greater profits, which sometimes worked and sometimes not. Since these trades are manual, there may be pressure from knowing that subscriber funds are affected. So I suggested to Oleg to focus on his own account and resume the kind of trading he's used to. This seems to be working.

I rate reliability and description quality 3/5 because there may be another sequence of losses exceeding monthly profit, and there's not much of a description. Oleg's other signal Predator, which copies these same trades, has a bit more: "This strategy is based on trend, volume, and market structure for trading XAUUSD during the London and New York sessions." But you want to be on this one as it's the source.

Trading copying quality is 5/5 as these trades are copying nearly perfectly for me despite of the scalping nature. I think I was getting slightly better results on average than we see here, perhaps because I use a raw spread account. A similar slight improvement can be seen in Predator.

User support is also 5/5. The communication with Oleg was great.