- Is Antipode a martingale or grid EA?
- No. It opens one position at a time with a fixed lot, a fixed 114-pip stop and a fixed 171-pip target. There is no averaging down, no grid, no recovery trade and no lot progression. A second RSI extreme while a position is open is ignored. The maximum number of positions open at the same time, measured across the whole published record, is one.
- How was it tested?
- On Exness MT5 EUR/AUD history in the MetaTrader 5 strategy tester, on the "every tick based on real ticks" model (Model 4), from 2019-01-01 to 2026-07-01 with 0.1 lot on a $10,000 balance. The tester reported the history quality of that run as 100% real ticks over 298 million ticks. All 230 closed trades are published on this page and downloadable as CSV.
- Why does it win less than half the time?
- Because the target is wider than the stop. Fewer than half the entries close in profit, but the average win was 113.80 against an average loss of -80.14, so the smaller share of winners still covers the larger share of losers. A 46% win rate is what a 171-pip target paired with a 114-pip stop produces, not a sign that something is wrong.
- How bad do the losing streaks get?
- The longest run of consecutive losses in the published record is 8. Of the eight calendar years the record touches, two ended negative — 2020 at -276.23 and the partial 2026 at -35.79. The deepest the balance fell from a peak was 7.43% ($822.63), and on equity, marking an open position to market, 8.02% ($890.71).
- Does the backtest include swap?
- Yes. The run recorded -523.49 of swap in total and the published net is the figure after it. All of it fell on the long side — 104 of the 113 long trades paid carry, while the 117 short trades cost nothing to hold in the tested history. 207 of the 230 trades stayed open longer than eight hours, with a median hold of about 83 hours and a longest of 41 days, so carry matters here. Your broker's rates will differ and the sign on the long side can move. Commission was zero in this run.
- Why does it trade so rarely?
- Both an RSI extreme on a closed four-hour bar and a free position slot are needed, and EUR/AUD reaches those extremes only a few dozen times a year. Across the measured record it averaged about thirty trades a year, though the rate is not steady — the six full years range from 24 to 48.
- Does it trade at particular hours?
- No. There is no time, session or day filter. Any closed H4 bar whose RSI is past the threshold can open a trade, provided no position is already open.
- Can I run it on another pair or timeframe?
- The timeframe is enforced — on anything other than H4 the EA stops in OnInit and prints the reason. Nothing stops you attaching it to another pair, but the thresholds and the 114/171-pip distances were fitted to EUR/AUD and the published record says nothing about how they behave elsewhere.