7 things the seller chose in that test, and how to rerun it in your MT5
The product page shows a chart climbing from left to right, a big percentage and a row of winning months. It may all be true. But every piece of it was chosen by the seller: the period, the deposit, the broker, the settings.
You have not seen anything of your own yet.
Checking costs nothing, because paid EAs on the Market come with a free demo. The rule fits in one sentence: buy the test you ran, not the one you were shown. Four steps, two tables, all inside the Strategy Tester you already have.
What the free demo does, and what it doesn't
The demo installs from the EA's Market page and runs only in the Strategy Tester, where you pick the period, the deposit, the leverage and the profile. It does not trade on an account, demo or live. To watch an EA live before buying, there is the rental: ours can be rented for 1 month during the launch.
The first run downloads the tick history, every price change the broker recorded, and takes longer. The next ones are fast.
Step 1: write down the test sheet
Before you open the tester, collect the recipe the seller used to reach the result on the page. It is what you will rebuild in step 2.
| What to look for | Why it matters |
|---|---|
| Period | One hand-picked year says little; the period needs to reach the most recent month |
| Modelling | "Every tick based on real ticks" uses the prices the broker recorded; the other modes imagine the price path inside each bar |
| Initial deposit | In an EA that sizes the lot from the balance, the deposit changes the size of every trade |
| Leverage | Sets how much margin each trade uses and whether the lot fits the account |
| Broker and symbol | Every broker has its own prices, spread and commission |
| Settings or profile | Storefronts sometimes show the most aggressive profile |
| Live account | The test shows the past; an account read straight from the broker shows execution |
Something missing from the page? Ask the seller before you go on. A written answer is worth more than a chart.
Step 2: rerun the seller's test
- Open the Strategy Tester with Ctrl+R.
- Choose the EA and the symbol from the sheet.
- Set the period and the modelling to match the sheet.
- Set the same deposit and leverage and click Start.
Use data from the same broker as the sheet: the tester downloads the history of the broker your MT5 is connected to, and a demo account at that broker does the job.
This step has one point: your result has to land close to the result on the page. Close, not identical. A small gap usually comes from the broker's data, the spread and commission, the EA's version, the modelling or the symbol's contract. XAUUSD, GOLD and XAUUSD+ are the same asset, but the contract may change: check the Specification in the right-click menu of Market Watch (Ctrl+M).
A big gap, with the same sheet, is a question for the seller, before any payment.
Step 3: switch to your own conditions
Step 2 proved the page is real. Step 3 shows the EA where it will actually work for you.
- The deposit you will really use. Starting with half the sheet's deposit? Test with half.
- Your broker. Your symbol, your spread, your commission.
- The most recent period: 2025 and 2026. It is the market the EA will meet tomorrow. Older years show consistency, but they do not decide the purchase.
- The profile you will run. Not the storefront's most aggressive one: the one you will leave running on Monday.
Change one thing at a time and run again, so you know what moved the result. Then run with everything together. That is your test, and it is the one you buy.
Step 4: decide with the table
| Your test | What to do |
|---|---|
| Matches the page in your conditions | Buy, or rent for a month on a demo account first |
| Matches on the seller's sheet, gets worse in yours | Change the profile or the deposit and run again |
| Does not match even on the seller's sheet | Ask the seller before anything else |
No line says "buy because the page looks good". Every decision comes from a test you ran.
The full roadmap is on our site. It adds the page-vs-test comparison (five lines that show whether the two tell the same story), the four questions for a month on a demo account, what a test cannot show, figures and an FAQ: how to test a trading robot before you buy, in 5 steps.
Our three test sheets, ready to rerun
Everything this guide asks of a seller, we put on each EA's page. You can rerun our test exactly as it was done: with real ticks, real spread and real commission.
| EA | Period | Deposit | Broker and symbol | Leverage | Default profile |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Collie Gold | January 2021 to October 22, 2026 | 1,000 USD | Vantage, XAUUSD+ | 1:1000 | Moderate |
| Pitbull Gold | January 2021 to October 22, 2026 | 10,000 USD | Vantage, XAUUSD+ | 1:500 | Balanced |
| Beagle Gold | January 2023 to October 2026 | 10,000 USD | Vantage, XAUUSD+ | 1:100 | Moderate |
One detail for step 2: the year-by-year table on each page restarts every year with the same deposit. To rerun a year, run only that year, with the sheet's deposit. Start with one number from each, in the test with real ticks:
- Pitbull Gold on the Market: +425% in 2025 on the Balanced profile, and 22 of 22 months in profit in 2025 and 2026. Run 2025 with 10,000 USD and check the report month by month.
- Collie Gold on the Market: +586% in 2025 on the Moderate profile, in the test with 1,000 USD.
- Beagle Gold on the Market: +185% in 2025 on the Moderate profile, and 21 of 22 months in profit in 2025 and 2026.
Then do step 3 with all three. They recognize gold under any symbol name and detect the broker's time zone on their own, and choosing the profile is the whole setup. Run them with the same deposit and the same period, and choose by your own test.
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