Martingale sizing
Position size stepping up after a loss, again and again. It produces a beautifully smooth curve right up until the sequence runs longer than the account can fund.
Measured, not asserted
A real exampleFrom the record77.3% of its trades win — one loss undoes 1.3× of them.Quantum Queen X MT5 — both figures from the same published table →Trading tools, judged by what the data says.
Every Expert Advisor and indicator here is read from its own record — the equity curve, the drawdown, the month it lost money, the trade that cost more than ten wins. Nothing is scored by a model and nothing is repeated from a sales page.
- Products measured
- 19
- Trades analysed
- 5,345
- Carrying a risk flag
- 11
- Figures we invented
- 0
The catalogue
Ranked by what they kept
Ordered by the Kept Score — four measured quarters out of 100, weighted towards what a strategy kept rather than what it reached. A tool that doubled an account and nearly lost it is not better than one that grew steadily, and a record too thin to judge is scored provisionally and listed last.
How the Kept Score is worked out →
MT5 · Expert Advisor · XAUUSD01
79/ 100Kept Score
TwisterPro Scalper
Return
107.3%
Max drawdown
5.0%
Profit factor
5.80
74 trades · 6 months$399
View product — TwisterPro ScalperMT5 · Expert Advisor · XAUUSD02
77/ 100Kept Score
De Moore
Return
132.9%
Max drawdown
1.3%
Profit factor
13.86
Grid / basket positions
185 trades · 3 months$399
View product — De MooreMT5 · Expert Advisor · XAUUSD03
70/ 100Kept Score
The Gold Reaper MT5
Return
298.9%
Max drawdown
16.8%
Profit factor
2.33
Grid / basket positions
855 trades · 22 months$949
View product — The Gold Reaper MT5MT5 · Expert Advisor · XAUUSD04
68/ 100Kept Score
Quantum Queen X MT5
Return
5130.4%
Max drawdown
11.2%
Profit factor
2.69
Grid / basket positions
1525 trades · 28 months$1,200
View product — Quantum Queen X MT5MT5 · Expert Advisor · XAUUSD05
62/ 100Kept Score
Quantum Titan MT5
Return
85.6%
Max drawdown
11.8%
Profit factor
2.83
Small wins, large losses
100 trades · 6 months$1,300
View product — Quantum Titan MT5MT5 · Expert Advisor · XAUUSD06
60/ 100Kept Score
MoonDog EA
Return
384.8%
Max drawdown
20.1%
Profit factor
2.59
Grid / basket positions
182 trades · 2 months$349
View product — MoonDog EAHead to head
The comparison that changes its mind
Neo Delta grew 8.1%, and Vex Gold EA grew 29.5% — so the second looks far ahead. It ran for 11× as long. Compounded to a monthly rate, the order reverses.
- Profit factorEverything won divided by everything lost
- 2.20▲
- 1.86▲
- Payoff ratioAverage win divided by average loss
- 0.44▲
- 0.83▲
- Max drawdownDeepest fall from a previous high
- 6.7%▲
- 5.4%▲
- Recovery factorNet profit per unit of worst fall
- 1.20▲
- 1.34▲
- Growth per monthTotal growth compounded to a monthly rate
- 19.95%▲
- 5.79%▲
- Win rateNot scored — a high win rate is only good if the payoff supports it
- 83.3%▲
- 69.2%▲
The difference
What we check that a sales page will not tell you
Each of these is read out of the record and shown with the measurement behind it. A badge without its working is just our opinion.
Grid and basket exposure
Many positions held on one symbol at once. The real risk is the whole ladder moving together, not any single trade in it.
Missing or widening stops
Read off the stop-loss column where there is one, inferred from the shape of the losses where there is not.
Small wins, large losses
The "90% accuracy" profile. A win rate that high is usually a consequence of taking profit early and holding losses late, not evidence of an edge.
Short track records
A strategy needs to meet a market it dislikes before its drawdown figure means much. Six good months is a start.
Gaps in the record
Long silences inside an otherwise active history — the strategy standing aside, or the account not running.
Method
How the numbers are produced
There is no model here and no weighting. Each figure is arithmetic on a record we hold.
- 01
A record goes in
A trade-by-trade history, or the account totals a seller publishes on their live signal. Kept alongside the product so any figure can be traced back to it.
- 02
The account is rebuilt
Balance accumulated trade by trade, giving the equity curve, the depth and duration of every drawdown, and the result of each calendar month — including the flat ones.
- 03
The record is checked for risk
Sizing, exposure, stop placement, and the ratio between what a win pays and what a loss costs. Each check reports the measurement it was decided on.
- 04
What cannot be measured stays blank
A return percentage needs an opening balance. Where a seller did not publish one, the page says so rather than printing a number we made up.
Plain English
Every number, explained
The figures on a product page, and why each one is worth looking at.
- Profit factor
- Everything won divided by everything lost. Below 1 the strategy loses money; the further above 1, the more room it has to be wrong.
- Payoff ratio
- The average win divided by the average loss. A high win rate with a low payoff means rare losses undo many wins — the shape most likely to look excellent until it does not.
- Max drawdown
- The deepest fall from a previous high, and how long it lasted. The number that decides whether a trader can actually hold the position through it.
- Recovery factor
- Net profit divided by that worst fall. It answers what the account was paid for the worst moment it went through.
- Expectancy
- What one average trade is worth, wins and losses together. Multiply by trade frequency to get what the strategy is actually doing.
- Sharpe ratio
- Return measured against how much it bounced around getting there. Useful for comparing two strategies with similar returns and different tempers.
Questions
What people ask
Where do the numbers come from?
Either a trade-by-trade history file, or the aggregate statistics a seller publishes on their live signal page. Each product page names which one it used and links to the source so you can check it.
Do you score or rate products?
No. There is no scoring model, no weighting and no rating we invented. Every figure is arithmetic on the underlying data. Where a number cannot be computed honestly — a return percentage with no opening balance, for instance — the page leaves it blank rather than estimating it.
What are risk flags?
Patterns read out of the data rather than taken from the description: position sizes that step up after a loss, baskets of positions held on one symbol, trades placed without a stop, and win rates bought with rare large losses. Each flag opens to show the measurements behind it.
Why does one product have a chart and another does not?
Charting an equity curve needs a trade-by-trade history. Many sellers publish account totals but not the individual trades, and building a curve from totals would mean inventing the path between them. Those products get charts of the published figures instead.
Do you sell these products?
No. We hold no stock, take no payment and ship no software. Product pages link out to whoever sells them, and we may earn a commission on those links.
Does a good record mean a product will keep working?
No, and nothing on this site should be read that way. A track record describes markets that have already happened. Its main use is spotting the strategies whose risk is structured so that one bad stretch ends the account.
Start with the record, not the pitch.
Every product page opens with what the account actually did, and says where that came from.
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