- Is Beacon 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 100-pip target. There is no averaging down, no grid, no recovery trade and no lot progression of any kind.
- How was it tested?
- On Exness MT5 AUD/CAD history in the MetaTrader 5 strategy tester, on the "every tick" model generated from M1 bars, from 2019-01-01 to 2026-08-09 with 0.1 lot on a $10,000 balance. The tester reported the history quality of that run as 72% — lower than our other products, and explained in its own question below. The published backtest is the part of that run that ends at the 2026-04-01 cutoff; what the same build did after that date is shown separately as the verification window, so the two never share a trade. Every closed trade is published on this page and downloadable as CSV.
- Why is the history quality 72% when other products on this site show 99-100%?
- The tester's history-quality figure measures how much of the run could be modelled from the finest data available on the feed. AUD/CAD is a cross pair, and the Exness M1 history it is measured on is thinner than what the majors carry, so the tester reports 72% for this run. We publish the number exactly as the original report printed it — the report is downloadable on this page — rather than re-measuring on a different feed to show a prettier figure. It means the tick-level modelling carries more approximation than on our USD/JPY products, and you should weigh the record with that in mind.
- Does the backtest include swap?
- Yes. The per-deal swap from the broker's contract specification is included in the published profit figures, and the trade ledger carries it per trade.
- Why is the stop wider than the target?
- That is the deliberate shape of a high-win-rate reversion strategy. The trailing stop banks most winners early, wins come far more often than losses, and the wide stop gives the snap-back room to develop. The cost is that the occasional loss is bigger than a typical win — the profit factor and drawdown on this page already include those losses.
- Does it trade at particular hours?
- No. There is no time or session filter. A qualifying RSI extreme on any closed M15 bar can open a trade, day or night.