Correction (2026-10-26): the figures labelled "equity drawdown" in this post (MEGAMAX DONCHIAN 16.27%, GOLD NEURON 28.5%, GOLD KING 42.8%) are the MT5 report's "Maximal" values, the largest peak-to-trough fall measured in money...
You win seven trades out of ten, yet your account goes backwards. How can that happen? The missing piece is the size of those wins and losses. A win rate tells you how often a trade made money. It says nothing, by itself, about how much money the strategy kept...
Most EA pages carry a year-by-year table. It looks complete, and it is one of the easiest tables in the report to misread, because every row starts on 1 January. Your account will start on whatever day you buy...
A good entry signal is not enough. Market conditions decide whether that signal is worth taking. Smart Liquidity Gold checks five filters before any order is placed. 1. Session filter. The EA trades only during the hours you allow, so dead or erratic sessions are avoided. 2. Spread filter...
We took the published MT5 backtests of 8 of our EAs, added up the net profit of all Januaries, all Februaries and so on, and asked whether the best and the worst calendar month are the same ones from EA to EA. This article uses backtests only. It contains no forward-account figures...
Breakout EA sounds like one category. In practice, the label can hide completely different decisions: what creates the level, how price must cross it, whether a retest is required, how false breaks are filtered and what happens after entry...
Price has turned at your line, but that alone does not show whether it is a reversal or a bounce. Two chart checks help you judge the level before entry...
We took inspiration from Gold Reaper, kept the ideas we valued most, and developed Sycz Gold Breakout Master with one goal: refine those ideas and make them better...
Your strategy chooses the trades, but your firm's rulebook keeps the account alive. Before paying for an EA or a challenge, check EA use, news trading, account type and loss limits. An EA does not know your firm's rules unless you check them for it. Why do good trades still break the rules...
This is the third post in my series on the seven trading sins behind my blown accounts. The first two were Wrath, the revenge trade, and Lust, meddling with an EA. If I had to pick the two sins that cost me the most, it would be Wrath and this one. What it looked like? A trade went against me...
20 October 2026 · Technical guide · AI-assisted writing, checked against source and a reproducible calculation Your account is up, but one EA still has an open loss...
Your EUR/USD call finishes above its strike, yet the trade loses money. That can feel contradictory until you separate two questions: did the option have a positive payoff, and did that payoff cover what you paid? The strike answers the first question...
We took the published MT5 backtests of 8 of our EAs, split each by calendar year, and asked how much of the whole-test net profit the single best year produced. This article uses backtests only. It contains no forward-account figures. Figures are as of 2026-10-18...
Is 2% a lot for gold today? On EURUSD a 2% day would be extreme; on gold it is close to an ordinary day. Daily Range Stats stops the guessing: it measures every day on the symbol's own history and puts today on that scale. Three questions it answers How big is a normal day here...
A trading drawdown gives way to a new wave of growth, and ONE MAN ARMY once again delights us with good profit percentages. No grid or martingale. Safe deposit growth every day...
Copy trading a signal lets you mirror the performance of a specific strategy directly in your MetaTrader 5 terminal without needing to manage the logic yourself...
The most expensive assumption in automated trading is that one entry model should work in every market. A trend follower needs sustained movement. A breakout system needs compression followed by expansion. A mean-reversion system needs price to return toward a stable center...
Hello traders, Throttle Trade Manager is now live on the MQL5 Market, updated to version 1.12. I built it for one situation: you hold many entries on one symbol, for example gold, price moves, and you need to fix every stop or take part of the position off. Doing that one row at a time is slow...
Mother is mothering. Today, Sandstorm closed a standalone gold short after 85 minutes , adding 1.14% and bringing October’s live return to 14.02% . All eight modules have now contributed positively...
An indicator that draws zones on a chart is easy to trust or dismiss on vibes - it looks right for a week, or it looks wrong once and you stop believing it. Neither reaction uses the one thing the tool actually keeps: a running record of what happened to every zone it drew...
