HighwayStar
- Experts
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Aoba Development LLC
I build rule-based Expert Advisors for the JPY pairs and run every one of them on my own live accounts before and after it goes on sale. No grid, no martingale, a stop loss on every trade. Live signals are linked from each product page. - Version: 2.30
- Updated: 8 October 2026
- Activations: 20
LIVE SIGNAL: https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/2393753
(IC Markets live account, fixed 0.01 lot, default settings)
Price: 299 USD.
If you value a plainly described, rules-based system over a perfect straight-line backtest, HighwayStar may be for you.
HighwayStar is an Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5 that trades USDJPY and EURJPY from a single chart.
If you are looking for an EA that doubles an account in a month, this is not it. HighwayStar is designed for long-term, rules-based intraday trading, with small positions and no attempt to recover a loss by trading bigger. It has losing days and losing weeks. That is normal for this kind of system.
What it trades
USDJPY and EURJPY have a daily rhythm that repeats around the Tokyo session and the calendar of the Japanese market. HighwayStar trades that rhythm with several independent short-term methods. Each method has its own entry window and its own exit rule, and most positions are held for minutes to a few hours.
The methods are built on old, well-known behaviour of these pairs, not on anything new. There is no AI, no neural network and no secret indicator. The rules were fixed from a 10-year test and have very few parameters, which is what keeps them from being fitted to the past.
Trading frequency: in the 2016-2026 backtest the EA opened about 100 positions per month on average (about 59 on USDJPY and 41 on EURJPY).
No grid. No martingale. The order size is never increased after a loss.
A word of warning
A lot of trading robots are sold with words like "AI", "neural network", "machine learning" or "quantum". Treat those words as a reason to look closer, not as a feature. There is no holy grail in retail trading, and a straight-line backtest is not evidence of one.
HighwayStar makes no such claim. It is built on behaviour of the JPY pairs that has been known for years, applied in a systematic, rule-based way, and tested on ten years of real tick data. The edge is small per trade and it shows up slowly.
Who it is for
- Traders who want a JPY intraday component in a portfolio of EAs, with behaviour that is easy to understand and easy to check against the chart.
- Traders who want to start at 0.01 and raise the lot as the account grows, or let the auto lot scale it by balance.
- Traders who are comfortable leaving a VPS running and looking at the account once a week.
Who it is not for
- Anyone who needs a profit this month. The edge is small per trade and shows up over months and years.
- Anyone who wants to tune parameters. There is nothing to tune; the methods are fixed on purpose.
- Anyone who wants to run it on gold, indices or crypto. It is built for USDJPY and EURJPY only.
- Anyone who cannot accept a few losing weeks in a row without turning it off. Turning it off after a drawdown is the most common way to lose with a system like this.
How you can run it
- Fixed lot (default). The simplest way. Pick a lot you can hold through a bad month and leave it. This is how the author runs it on a small live account.
- Auto lot by balance. 0.01 lot per "Balance per 0.01 lot" of account balance. The lot grows and shrinks with the account.
- Multiplier. Scales all methods together, in either mode.
- As part of a portfolio. HighwayStar trades the JPY session rhythm, which may give different exposure from gold or index strategies.
What to expect
- Many small trades. Most of the result comes from the sum of many ordinary trades, not from a few big ones.
- Drawdowns. In the 10-year backtest at a fixed 0.01 lot the largest drawdown including floating loss was 132 USD, and there were losing weeks in every year. If you cannot sit through weeks without new highs, this EA is not for you.
- Backtest results do not guarantee future results. Test the EA on a demo account with your broker before using it on a live account, and start with the smallest lot.
Backtest (2016.01 - 2026.08, real ticks, history quality 99%, Hantec Markets)
- Fixed 0.01 lot, 10,000 USD deposit
- Net profit: +5,248 USD / Profit factor 1.81
- Maximum drawdown (including floating loss): 132 USD
- Trades: 12,659 / Win rate 60.7%
- Every calendar year 2016-2025 was profitable
How to use
- Attach the EA to one USDJPY or EURJPY chart, H1 timeframe. It trades both USDJPY and EURJPY from that chart.
- Symbol names with a prefix or suffix (for example USDJPY.r) are detected from the chart symbol. They can also be entered manually in the inputs.
- Operation on a chart of any other symbol is not supported and its behaviour is not guaranteed.
Requirements
- MetaTrader 5, hedging account.
- USDJPY and EURJPY available in Market Watch.
- A VPS or an always-on machine is recommended.
- A raw-spread (ECN) account is recommended. Entries are skipped while the spread is above the "Max spread" input.
- Broker server time: detected automatically (Server time = Auto, the default), including daylight saving changes. If you prefer to set it yourself, choose Manual and enter the winter and summer GMT offsets and the DST rule (US, EU or none).
Lot size
Each method has its own lot coefficient, so the methods do not all trade the same size. The order size is:
order size = base lot x method coefficient x Multiplier
- Auto lot by balance = false (default): base lot = "Fixed lot" (default 0.01).
- Auto lot by balance = true: base lot = 0.01 per "Balance per 0.01 lot" of account balance. With the default of 1000, a balance of 1,000 USD gives 0.01, 5,000 USD gives 0.05 and 10,000 USD gives 0.10. The balance is the closed balance; floating profit and loss is not counted.
- Multiplier (default 1.0) scales all methods together.
- The result is rounded down to your broker's lot step and is never below the broker's minimum lot.
Inputs
- USDJPY on/off, EURJPY on/off
- Symbol prefix / Symbol suffix (empty = taken from the chart symbol)
- Server time: Auto (default) or Manual. Auto detects the broker's GMT offset from the weekly market open.
- Winter GMT offset (2), Summer GMT offset (3), DST rule (US). Used only when Server time = Manual.
- Auto lot by balance (false), Balance per 0.01 lot (1000), Multiplier (1.0), Fixed lot (0.01)
- Magic number USDJPY (7700771), Magic number EURJPY (7700871). Change them if another EA on the same account uses the same numbers.
- Slippage in pips (5), Max spread in pips (5.0)
That is all. There are no settings to optimize and no set files to download.
