A good-looking equity curve can hide a dangerous strategy. Martingale and grid systems often show smooth growth for months, until one strong move wipes out the account. That's why I designed ScraperGold with a few rules that never change:
• A hard stop loss and take profit on every order, attached before the order is even placed
• No martingale: the lot size never increases after a loss
• No grid, no averaging: the EA never adds to a losing position
• A trailing stop that only moves in the profitable direction
Built-in protection
• A spread filter pauses Scrap C and D when spreads widen above 80 points
• An optional news filter pauses new entries around high-impact USD news
• Pending orders are removed on Friday evening to avoid weekend gaps
• Before every order the EA checks volume limits, stop level and free margin. If a check fails, the order is skipped and logged instead of sent
Losses are part of trading. The goal is to keep each one small and predictable. You can see how that looks in real time on the live account: https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/2392705
