By William Brandon Autry · Updated October 2, 2026 · All amounts in USD
On October 2, 2026, I started a new public signal record for AIKON.
My older public accounts are now being wound down. Some still contain open positions and may ultimately be liquidated as I complete that process. I have also withdrawn available capital from those accounts and reallocated part of it to fund the new AIKON-only accounts.
This is a portfolio transition, not an attempt to erase the previous record.
The older accounts contain years of trading history from the systems that came before AIKON. They include profitable periods, withdrawals, difficult periods, drawdowns, open losses, and positions that were already in progress when AIKON began taking over the portfolio.
I am preserving that history in this article because it remains part of my actual trading record.
What I do not want to do is continue presenting those accounts as though their entire historical performance belongs to AIKON.
So I am separating the two periods.
The legacy accounts show the history that led to AIKON. The new accounts begin a clean AIKON-only forward record.
The fresh AIKON-only forward record
These new public accounts were created specifically to establish a clean forward record beginning with AIKON:
| Signal | Starting capital | Record begins |
| Aikon Quick Start Recovery | $500 | October 2, 2026 |
| Aikon Node | $500 | October 2, 2026 |
| Aikon Node Deep Seek | $500 | October 2, 2026 |
| Aikon Node 4 | $500 | October 2, 2026 |
| Combined starting capital | $2,000 | Fresh trading history |
At the beginning of this record, these accounts have no previous trading history. That is intentional.
The starting capital does not necessarily represent $2,000 of new outside money. As I wind down the legacy portfolio, I am withdrawing available capital and redeploying part of it into the new accounts.
The important distinction is the trading history, not the source of every dollar.
Capital can move from one account to another. What makes these accounts useful as an AIKON record is that they do not contain years of trades from my previous products.
There is naturally very little statistical history to evaluate on day one. That is the point.
I would rather begin with a blank record and let AIKON build its history publicly than retroactively attribute older performance to AIKON.
From these accounts' first trades forward, readers can evaluate the AIKON operation without having to determine which previous system opened a historical position.
These new signals are now the primary forward record I will use when discussing AIKON performance.
What happens to the legacy accounts
The older accounts are being retired rather than maintained indefinitely simply so their public signals remain active.
As part of that process:
- Available margin and excess capital can be withdrawn.
- Some of that capital is being redeployed into the new AIKON accounts.
- Existing positions may remain under management while an account is wound down.
- Some accounts may ultimately be liquidated as the old portfolio is closed.
If losses are realized during that process, they remain part of the legacy portfolio's outcome.
I am not keeping an account alive forever simply because closing it could make the historical result look better or worse.
The accounts served a purpose, documented years of trading, and contributed to the experience from which AIKON was developed. I am now moving that capital and operation into a cleaner structure.
The September 22 portfolio snapshot and the individual legacy signal records are preserved later in this article so readers can see what existed before the transition.
Why I developed AIKON
I developed AIKON to make the trading approach I already used easier to configure, monitor, coordinate, and manage.
Before AIKON, I handled much more of the configuration manually and checked my accounts more often.
AIKON brings account coordination, trading intelligence, capital controls, position management, and Ask Aikon into the same operation.
For me, the improvement is practical: less manual setup, better coordination between accounts, less frequent checking, and a clearer view of what needs my attention.
The old public signals document how the approach developed over time.
The new signals will document what happens when AIKON is there from the beginning.
Where AI fits into the trading
AIKON connects AI analysis, automated trading, and a conversation with the system managing the accounts.
The practical value is being able to evaluate opportunities, manage the operation, and understand what the system is doing from the same environment.
There are three major places where AI contributes, depending on the functions enabled in the setup:
| AI function | What it does | Practical advantage |
| Market analysis and trade decisions | With AI trading enabled, evaluates available market information to inform trading decisions within the configured strategy. | Trading analysis can consider changing market context. |
| Position management | When AI position management is enabled, reassesses open positions and can take management actions permitted by its settings. | Analysis can continue after entry as the position and market develop. |
| Ask Aikon | Reads the operation, answers questions, investigates conditions, and prepares operational changes for confirmation. In my setup, it can also proactively recommend campaign interventions. | I receive explanations and recommendations connected directly to the trading operation. |
The capital and trading framework gives these capabilities defined boundaries.
AI does not get to bypass capital permissions, fleet restrictions, margin requirements, Recovery limits, sizing rules, or other programmed checks simply because its market analysis is favorable.
Why I developed Ask Aikon—and how I use it
Ask Aikon is one of the biggest changes in how I personally manage the operation.
Previously, I relied more heavily on percentage equity controls, configured more of the operation manually, and watched the accounts more frequently.
I wanted the system to bring useful assessments to me as conditions changed.
I also wanted the trading system to be able to explain itself.
Instead of opening an EA and simply seeing positions on a screen, I wanted to be able to ask questions about what was actually happening.
For example:
- “Why has this market not traded? Check what is blocking it.”
- “Review my portfolio exposure and explain what needs attention.”
- “What is happening with this Recovery campaign?”
- “Should this campaign continue or should I consider taking the loss?”
- “Prepare a change for this account and explain it before I confirm.”
- “Pause new entries while existing positions continue under their management rules.”
In my setup, Ask Aikon can proactively inform me and recommend whether a Recovery campaign should continue, whether selected positions should close, or whether the entire campaign should be closed.
I can confirm or decline those interventions.
I do not have to initiate every review, while the routine trading and management rules can continue operating automatically within their settings.
For me, this is a better fit than relying on one percentage threshold alone.
It gives me an assessment to consider while leaving me willing to take a loss when I decide that is the better choice.
Ask Aikon does not guarantee that a campaign will recover.
The advantage is the direct connection between the conversation and the actual trading operation.
It can work with information about the settings, positions, portfolio, and connected accounts rather than acting like a disconnected general-purpose chatbot.
Requested operational changes go through the applicable confirmation and validation process.
The same conversational interface can also be accessed through a paired Telegram connection while MT5 remains running and connected.
Watch the Ask Aikon demonstration · approximately 13 minutes.
From an opportunity to a managed trade
A typical workflow with AI trading enabled looks like this:
- Evaluate the opportunity. AI analyzes the market information available to the configured trading function.
- Check permission to trade. AIKON checks account eligibility, capital permissions, and the applicable trading restrictions. A favorable analysis does not override those checks.
- Determine where it can trade. When operating as a fleet, AIKON evaluates which eligible account or accounts can participate rather than assuming every connected account should receive the same position.
- Execute when eligible. A trade can open automatically under the enabled rules. Routine automated entries do not require an Ask Aikon conversation or manual confirmation of every trade.
- Manage the position. Configured exits and management functions govern the trade. If AI position management is enabled, the position can continue to be reassessed within its permitted scope.
- Review or change the operation. I can use Ask Aikon to investigate a decision, inspect exposure, review a campaign, or prepare a change for confirmation.
The new public signal record will document the results of this workflow from a clean starting point.
How my Master/Node setup manages exposure
A trading opportunity does not automatically mean identical entries on every connected account.
The Master coordinates the connected nodes, which can share analysis and account state. An eligible fleet member can perform shared analysis; that job does not have to remain permanently restricted to the Master.
Before a new campaign—a position or managed basket—begins, the fleet checks where it can be placed:
- Account readiness and capacity. A node needs permission to trade the market, available capacity, and the required connection and policy state.
- Existing workload. Deployment can favor idle eligible accounts ahead of accounts already carrying campaigns, particularly accounts carrying Recovery additions.
- Fleet participation limits. Limits govern how many accounts can participate in an opportunity and how many distinct markets can be active. More than one eligible account may participate.
- Shared currency exposure. When enabled, the directional-currency guard checks whether a proposed campaign would exceed its configured net concentration limit.
For example, buying EURUSD and buying GBPUSD both create short-USD exposure.
Different pair names do not automatically make those positions independent. The currency guard can recognize the shared directional exposure and refuse another campaign when the configured limit would be exceeded.
This particular limit measures directional campaign participation. It is not a dollar-loss ceiling or a complete statistical correlation model.
AI helps evaluate the opportunity; the fleet's programmed rules determine where it is eligible to trade.
Each account also retains its own capital and trading checks.
Cash and margin remain separate between accounts.
Why I use Veyra Recovery and Echelon
I personally prefer Recovery trading.
AIKON also supports Single Entry trading with defined Stop Loss and Take Profit, and many users prefer that approach.
My own preference is Recovery because I enjoy managing it and value the consistency I have experienced with my approach.
I prefer a process that lets me manage positions through several stages, evaluate the exposure as the campaign develops, and decide when continuing or taking a loss makes sense.
Recovery does not mean I refuse to take losses.
It is a method of managing a campaign through stages. It is not a promise that every campaign will recover.
Veyra gives my Recovery entries a defined progression.
It uses Fibonacci-based distances tied to a daily-range reference that stays fixed during the campaign. The required gaps widen at deeper levels.
Each addition must reach its calculated distance and pass the applicable capital, margin, drawdown, and entry checks.
These are programmed entry conditions. A fresh AI approval is not required for every Recovery addition.
A fast market can still cross those distances quickly.
Echelon allows selected positions to exit while others remain under management.
Its selective-exit logic can close an older and a newer position when their combined result reaches the calculated target.
A profitable position can therefore offset a losing position in that exit.
The whole campaign does not have to finish at once.
This gives me flexibility to capture profits and reduce open volume in stages while continuing to manage what remains.
Closing a profitable combination does not necessarily make the remaining floating-loss number immediately smaller, so I evaluate realized profit, remaining exposure, and total equity together.
My Recovery configuration has used:
- A maximum of five open positions per symbol.
- Max DD per symbol at 25%.
Once a symbol's calculated drawdown exceeds the applicable 25% threshold, further Recovery additions are paused.
This is an addition threshold, not an instruction to automatically close every position at a 25% loss.
Existing exposure remains under management.
New campaigns and additions to existing campaigns also have separate checks.
Adding positions increases exposure, which is why account allocation, selective exits, fleet controls, and ongoing review all matter to my process.
The legacy portfolio—in actual dollars
The following figures are intentionally preserved because they show what the previous portfolio actually looked like before I began winding it down.
These are not the new AIKON-only performance figures.
They are a dated snapshot of the ten-account portfolio taken on September 22, 2026.
At that snapshot, the accounts had received $4,898.89 in deposits.
I had withdrawn $3,118.58, and $4,589.28 remained in equity, including open losses.
Remaining equity plus withdrawals, less deposits, placed the accounts:
$4,589.28 + $3,118.58 − $4,898.89 = $2,808.97 ahead.
That represented 57.34% of total deposited funds at the snapshot.
This is a cumulative cash comparison across the accounts' histories, not an annualized return.
At the same snapshot, open losses were $458.26, or 9.08% of the combined $5,047.54 balance.
| Legacy ten-account portfolio | September 22, 2026 |
| Total deposits, including initial funding | $4,898.89 |
| Total withdrawals | $3,118.58 |
| Closed profit reported by the signals | $3,267.23 |
| Combined balance | $5,047.54 |
| Open floating P/L, calculated as equity minus balance | −$458.26 |
| Combined equity | $4,589.28 |
| Equity + withdrawals − deposits | +$2,808.97 |
The account records reconciled at that snapshot:
$4,898.89 deposited + $3,267.23 closed profit − $3,118.58 withdrawn = $5,047.54 balance.
Withdrawals are cash flows, not additional profit to add again to closed trading profit.
The equity calculation includes the open losses at the time of the check.
Separate software, AI-provider, and hosting costs are not deducted from these account figures.
Important: these figures are a historical snapshot. They are not the final liquidation values of the legacy portfolio.
After this snapshot, I began withdrawing available capital and winding the accounts down as I funded the new AIKON-only portfolio.
Some accounts may therefore show later withdrawals, closed positions, realized losses, or eventual liquidation.
The purpose of preserving this snapshot is to show what the portfolio actually looked like at the time—not to freeze the accounts at their most favorable point.
What one account's drawdown means for the portfolio
It is reasonable to inspect every individual signal.
The next question I ask is:
How much of the combined capital does this account represent, and how many actual dollars is it losing?
For example, at the September 22 snapshot, Portfolio 7 had a $451.28 balance and $80.28 in open losses.
That was 17.79% of that account's balance.
The same $80.28 contributed approximately 1.59 percentage points to the whole portfolio's 9.08% floating loss.
Both measurements matter.
The individual-account percentage describes pressure on that account.
The dollar contribution describes how much that account contributes to the total portfolio pressure.
Why I divide capital between accounts
Each account contains only a portion of my trading capital.
AIKON can coordinate the accounts, but their cash and margin remain separate.
A campaign on one account does not automatically have access to funds held in another account.
Here is the stress test from my actual September 22 account snapshot.
I start with the combined $4,589.28 equity, which already included the open losses at that time.
The examples use the three largest accounts by remaining equity at the snapshot: Portfolio 2 ($538.10), Portfolio 5 ($531.19), and Portfolio 4 ($520.27).
| Hypothetical scenario | Additional loss | Loss / snapshot portfolio equity | Equity remaining |
| Portfolio 2 equity falls to zero | $538.10 | 11.73% | $4,051.18 |
| Portfolios 2 and 5 equity fall to zero | $1,069.29 | 23.30% | $3,519.99 |
| Portfolios 2, 5, and 4 equity fall to zero | $1,589.56 | 34.64% | $2,999.72 |
| Portfolios 2, 5, and 4 each lose 25% of snapshot equity | $397.39 | 8.66% | $4,191.89 |
These are hypothetical additional losses from the dated snapshot, not forecasts or historical maximum drawdowns.
Other accounts are assumed unchanged in each illustration.
Full-account-loss scenarios assume equity stops at zero and broker arrangements prevent liabilities from reaching funds held elsewhere.
Previously withdrawn money is outside this remaining-equity calculation.
Figures are rounded.
Even the largest individual account represented only part of the portfolio.
Losing its entire remaining equity would have reduced the September 22 combined equity by 11.73%. Losing the three largest would have reduced it by 34.64%.
Which accounts lose matters because their allocations differ.
The partial-loss example illustrates the same principle without assuming complete account losses: a further 25% reduction in each of those three accounts' equity would have reduced combined equity by 8.66%.
This example is separate from my 25% symbol-DD setting, which governs Recovery additions and does not impose a 25% account-loss stop.
This is the account-level containment I mean when discussing my method.
It does not make an account loss acceptable and does not prevent simultaneous losses elsewhere.
Account allocation works together with fleet exposure controls and ongoing assessment. It is not a substitute for them.
The ten legacy public signals
These are the public accounts that formed the previous portfolio.
I am preserving the links and the September 22 figures here because they document the history that existed before the fresh AIKON-only signal record began.
| Legacy account | Balance | Open loss | Loss / account balance | Contribution to portfolio loss |
| Portfolio 1 | $533.51 | $80.37 | 15.06% | 1.59 pp |
| Portfolio 2 | $562.87 | $24.77 | 4.40% | 0.49 pp |
| Portfolio 3 | $548.60 | $54.85 | 10.00% | 1.09 pp |
| Portfolio 4 | $521.26 | $0.99 | 0.19% | 0.02 pp |
| Portfolio 5 | $561.85 | $30.66 | 5.46% | 0.61 pp |
| Portfolio 6 | $578.50 | $95.17 | 16.45% | 1.89 pp |
| Portfolio 7 | $451.28 | $80.28 | 17.79% | 1.59 pp |
| Portfolio 8 | $352.75 | $0.00 | 0.00% | 0.00 pp |
| Portfolio 9 | $421.70 | $88.09 | 20.89% | 1.75 pp |
| Portfolio 10 | $515.22 | $3.08 | 0.60% | 0.06 pp |
| Combined | $5,047.54 | $458.26 | — | 9.08% |
“pp” means percentage points contributed to the combined current floating-loss percentage at the September 22 snapshot.
Figures are rounded.
These were current floating losses, not the historical maximum drawdowns displayed on each signal page.
Historical account drawdowns remain relevant.
They tell you what each individual account experienced.
They cannot simply be added or averaged to determine the portfolio's historical maximum because the largest losses may have occurred on different dates and under different allocations.
A reliable historical portfolio drawdown requires aligned combined equity data with deposits and withdrawals accounted for.
Several accounts can also lose at the same time.
Splitting capital across multiple accounts alone does not establish diversification.
My reason for looking at both views is to see total exposure while also understanding what each individual account contributes.
The track record behind AIKON
The age of the legacy signals matters because readers can inspect the approach over a longer period, including difficult periods and losses.
Their histories document the experience that informed AIKON's development.
I began gradually transitioning that portfolio to AIKON in mid-August 2026, ahead of AIKON's public MQL5 Market release on September 5, 2026.
In early September, AIKON also took over positions that had originally been opened by previous products.
That created an attribution problem.
A trade closing while AIKON was running did not necessarily mean AIKON had opened it, and the full historical profits of those accounts could not honestly be attributed exclusively to AIKON.
That is why I decided to create the October 2026 accounts.
The decision is not based on pretending the previous history did not happen.
It is based on separating that history from the record I want AIKON to establish going forward.
Legacy record: the development and trading history that led to AIKON.
New record: AIKON from the beginning.
How I organized capital in the legacy portfolio
At the September 22 snapshot, my setup used Protected Capital, Balanced 2:1, Fleet Sync ON, and Reserve Guard set to Block New with a 5% buffer.
Recovery was active in that portfolio.
Balanced 2:1 allocated two-thirds of each account's active capital basis to working capital and one-third to reserve.
It did not simply divide the entire current balance every time a trade closed.
At the September 22 dashboard snapshot, the allocation was:
- $2,950.19 working capital.
- $1,475.10 protected reserve.
- $622.25 balance above the active allocation, displayed as harvestable profit.
Together, those figures reconciled to the $5,047.54 combined balance.
Automatic compounding was disabled in that setup, so additional profit did not automatically expand the authorized operating allocation.
Fleet Sync allowed connected accounts to follow the same capital policy while calculating their own dollar allocations.
The accounts remained separate: cash held in one account did not automatically fund another account's open positions.
What the reserve setting actually does
The 5% Reserve Guard buffer in that configuration was calculated above each account's protected reserve:
reserve + 5% of authorized working capital.
With Block New selected, reaching that boundary blocked new campaigns.
Existing positions could continue to require management, and Recovery additions could remain eligible depending on the other applicable controls.
Protected capital remains inside the broker account.
It is not the same thing as withdrawing the money.
The Block New setting is also not an automatic close-all stop and does not guarantee that losses can never reach capital designated as reserve.
That distinction matters when evaluating the system.
Why I look at portfolio and operating figures separately
The legacy dashboard also displayed portfolio figures and operating figures separately.
Those measurements answer different questions.
Portfolio balance and equity describe what is actually in the broker accounts.
Operating balance and equity describe the portion of the account currently authorized within AIKON's working-capital framework.
For example, the earlier September 22 dashboard showed approximately $4,596.15 equity against $5,047.54 balance, with $451.39 in open losses.
It also showed $2,819.63 operating equity against $2,950.19 operating balance, producing a 4.43% operating shortfall.
Those numbers are not contradictory.
AIKON calculates operating equity account by account after reserving capital and applying the working-capital ceiling.
Balance above an account's active allocation can absorb some open loss before that account's operating equity falls.
The smaller operating percentage does not erase the actual floating loss.
I look at both because they tell me different things about the same operation.
Setup and capital-management demonstrations
Alongside the Ask Aikon demonstration earlier in this article, these videos explain setup and capital management:
- AIKON — introduction and setup · approximately 6 minutes.
- AIKON Capital Management · approximately 9 minutes.
These videos were recorded during AIKON's early September 2026 period. Interface details may differ from the current version as development continues.
You do not need multiple accounts to use AIKON
The multiple-account structure shown in my public signals is my own portfolio arrangement.
AIKON can also operate on one account.
Its available approaches include Single Entry trading with Stop Loss as well as optional Recovery trading.
A user can choose an approach they understand, inspect the settings, configure the capital and risk controls, and use Ask Aikon to help explain what is happening.
AI functions require a configured AI-provider connection and may involve separate provider charges.
Automated operation requires MT5 to remain running and connected.
What I want the new record to show
I cannot tell you what these four new accounts will look like six months from now.
That is the point of starting them publicly from zero.
There will be trades that work.
There will be trades that do not.
There may be Recovery campaigns, drawdowns, withdrawals, interventions, and periods where the system does very little.
The record will develop in public.
The older signals remain part of my trading history because they show the process that eventually produced AIKON.
They are now being wound down, and I am moving available capital from that portfolio into the fresh accounts.
Some of those old accounts may finish well. Some may realize additional losses. Some may eventually be liquidated.
Whatever happens to them remains part of the legacy record.
The October 2026 signals are different.
They start with AIKON.
There is no earlier product history mixed into their trading results and no need to estimate which system deserves credit for a historical trade.
From this point forward, readers can inspect the same public records I inspect.
My results are not a promised outcome for another trader.
What you can evaluate is the software, the controls it provides, the way I actually use it, the history that led to it, and the new public record as it develops.
Watch the demonstrations. Inspect the legacy history. Follow the new AIKON-only signals. Then decide whether the approach fits the way you want to manage your own trading.
