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Measured, not asserted

Forex Expert Advisors, ranked by measured results.

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.

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A real exampleFrom the record75.0% of its trades win — one loss undoes 1.3× of them.Average winning trade€845 tradesAverage losing trade-€1015 tradesHedgehog MT5 — both figures from the same published table →
Measured of 90 listed
73
Trades analysed
33,891
Carrying a risk flag
46
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. Gain is per month, which is the only form in which two records of different lengths can be read against each other.

How the Kept Score is worked out →

Profit per month is compounded, so records of different lengths compare. Provisional scores do not count toward reliability. The number beside each option is how many products it returns.

  1. #1The Gold Reaper MT5 V5.6Kept Score 84+6.3%16.9%2.09
  2. #2De Moore V2.36Kept Score 80+30.6%4.6%6.49
  3. #3Nova Range EA V2.13Kept Score 79+28.5%6.6%27.39
  4. #4Gold Trade Pro MT5 V7.2Kept Score 73+6.0%31.9%1.68
  5. #5Mon Scalper MT5 V4.2Kept Score 73+12.0%28.7%1.48
  6. #6Gold Beaver V5.57Kept Score 70+34.6%14.3%4.91
  7. #7Atherion Zenith AI EA V1.6Kept Score 69+31.0%14.7%28.46
  8. #8Ultimate Breakout System V9.5Kept Score 69+40.8%8.3%3.09no trade history
  9. #9The Forex Exchanger MT5 V1.44Kept Score 68+5.3%73.4%3.55
  10. #10Quantum Queen X MT5 V4.4Kept Score 68+15.0%11.2%2.69
  11. #11SixtyNine EA V2.10Kept Score 67+39.4%23.3%1.85
  12. #12Mavrik Scalper V18.307Kept Score 64+14.3%17.2%2.79
  13. #13MoonDog EA V4.22Kept Score 64+53.2%20.1%2.24
  14. #14Squid Grid AI MT5 V1.3Kept Score 63+8.2%23.5%3.24
  15. #15Aura Gold Pro Edition V1.6Kept Score 63+21.4%24.8%1.34
  16. #16Scalping Robot Pro MT5 V7.2Kept Score 63+19.0%9.8%2.05
  17. #17One Man Army V5.25Kept Score 61+8.3%15.1%1.92no trade history
  18. #18Quantum King EA V3.1Kept Score 60+12.0%29.3%2.32
  19. #19Zerqon EA V22.105Kept Score 60+24.9%18.8%1.33
  20. #20Ghost Scalper MT5 V5.20Kept Score 60+73.3%34.6%1.72

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Head to head

The comparison that changes its mind

Gold Breakout PRO MT5 grew 1571.6%, and Hedgehog MT5 grew 41.3% — so the second looks far ahead. It ran for 0× as long. Compounded to a monthly rate, the order reverses.

Profit factorEverything won divided by everything lost
2.20
2.37▲
Payoff ratioAverage win divided by average loss
1.00▲
0.79
Max drawdownDeepest fall from a previous high
35.3%
10.1%▲
Recovery factorNet profit per unit of worst fall
5.83▲
3.85
Growth per monthTotal growth compounded to a monthly rate
32.92%
45.58%▲
Win rateNot scored — a high win rate is only good if the payoff supports it
68.8%
75.0%
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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.

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.

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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?

One score, the Kept Score, out of 100. It is a fixed formula over four figures already printed on the product’s own page — record length, worst drawdown, profit factor and recovery factor — each read against a band that never moves, so a product’s score cannot change because its neighbours did. The formula is written out in full at /ranking/. Nothing else on the site is scored or rated: every other number is arithmetic on the underlying data, and where one 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?

Not on this site — nothing is bought here and no payment is taken here. Most product pages link out to the seller’s own MQL5 listing. For the products we hold a resale licence for, the buy button goes to bestforextool.com, a storefront run by the same people who publish this site, at the price shown. That is a commercial interest and it is why it is written on every page. It buys nothing: the figures are computed the same way for a product we sell and one we do not, and no seller can pay for a listing, a score or a ranking.

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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