One Strategy Tester run. XAUUSD, 1 January 2016 to 31 August 2026. Starting deposit $500. Leverage 1:100. Every tick based on real ticks, 432,725,084 ticks replayed. Chapter: Finale.
At the end of the run the balance reads $16,003,986.50. Thirty-two thousand times the start.
This is the year-by-year ledger of that run, then the discipline behind it, then what the same $500 becomes at the calmer Chapters, then the steps to reproduce every number in your own terminal.
ELEVEN YEARS, ELEVEN GREEN
2016: +178.6%, from $500 to $1,393
2017: +68.5%, to $2,347
2018: +33.0%, to $3,122
2019: +105.6%, to $6,419
2020: +603.6%, to $45,167
2021: +669.1%, to $347,382
2022: +575.2%, to $2,345,687
2023: +79.7%, to $4,215,487
2024: +67.5%, to $7,060,987
2025: +54.4%, to $10,899,087
2026, to 31 August: +46.8%, to $16,003,987
Eleven calendar years. Eleven finished higher than they started. The weakest year, 2018, still added a third to the account.
One hundred and nine of the 125 active months closed green. The best month, March 2020, added 65% on its own.
The percentages shrink after 2022 for a simple reason: from that point the position size sits at the broker's 100-lot cap, and an account that can no longer compound grows in a straight line. The dollars keep coming; the multiples stop. That is what a $500 start looks like with compounding at the front and a cap at the back.
THE DISCIPLINE BEHIND THE NUMBERS
2,248 trades. 2,049 of them closed in profit: a 91.2% win rate. Profit factor 3.59. Recovery factor 86.8.
Every one of those trades was a single position. Across the entire run, the number of positions open at the same time never exceeded one. No grid, no basket, no averaging, no hedging.
Every one of those trades left the machine with a stop loss and a take profit already attached at the broker: 2,248 entry orders, 2,248 with both levels. If the terminal loses its connection, the protection is already on the server.
After a losing trade, the next position was the same size as the one before it: a lot ratio of 1.00. A loss changes nothing about the next trade. No martingale.
Longest winning streak: 67 trades in a row. Both directions traded: 1,146 buys, 1,102 sells.
FAST HANDS
Sixty percent of the trades closed within one minute. Ninety percent within seventeen minutes. The average trade lived nine and a half minutes. Saga is flat before the daily close and flat before every weekend.
ONE MACHINE, THREE SIZES, THE SAME $500
The Chapter input changes only the position size. Same signals, same eleven years, same $500 start:
Chapter III, the default, about 1% of balance per trade: $500 to $28,554. Fifty-seven times. Eleven green years.
Chapter V, about 2.5% per trade: $500 to $7,322,382. Fourteen thousand six hundred times. Eleven green years.
Finale, 5% per trade: $500 to $16,003,987. Thirty-two thousand times. Eleven green years.
Pick the size you can hold. The default is Chapter III.
TESTED TO SURVIVE
Before the run was published, we tried to break it.
Re-order the 2,248 trades at random, ten thousand times: the ending does not depend on the order.
Resample the trades with replacement, ten thousand times: runs that ended below the $500 start, zero out of ten thousand.
Delete the 112 best trades, the top five percent: still 61 times the start. Double the size of every loss: still 60 times the start.
The full audit of this run, every test and every number, is in the launch article:
https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs/post/775572
REPRODUCE IT
1. Download the free demo:
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/194901
2. Strategy Tester: Kingdom Saga Gold - XAUUSD - any chart timeframe (Saga works from its own one-minute data) - "Every tick based on real ticks".
3. 2016.01.01 - 2026.08.31 - deposit $500 - leverage 1:100.
4. Set the input Chapter = Finale for the numbers above. Leave it at Chapter III for the default numbers. Change nothing else.
Expected fingerprints, Finale: 2,248 trades - profit factor 3.59 - net profit about $16.0 million.
Expected fingerprints, Chapter III: 2,283 trades - profit factor 4.73 - net profit about $28,054.
If your report differs materially, post the difference in the Comments. We would rather be corrected than believed.
LIVE, FROM THE SAME $500
A real $500 account has been running Saga on the Finale chapter since 8 September 2026, published as a verification signal so that anyone can watch it:
https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/2390441
PRICING
Kingdom Saga Gold is a limited release. The first copies are $399; the price rises $100 after every 10 purchases toward a list price of $1,999. The price you pay is yours for life.
No countdown. No mystery deadline. A public ladder on the product page.
Reproduce first. Decide second.
https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/194901
Kings promise. Knights deliver.
Past performance, tested or live, does not guarantee future results.
Updates & honest monthly reports:
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