- Is Gyre 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 behind a trailing stop. 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 AUD/CAD 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 221 million ticks. All 143 closed trades are published on this page and downloadable as CSV.
- Why is the win rate so high?
- Because the stop is far wider than what the trailing stop banks. Winning four trades in five is what a 114-pip stop paired with a 34-pip trailing exit produces — it is a description of the shape, not evidence of an edge. The average win was 23.96 and the average loss -69.99, so it takes about three wins to pay for one loss. There were 25 losses in the record.
- Does the backtest include swap?
- Yes. The run recorded -146.99 of swap in total and the published net is the figure after it. All of it fell on the 66 short positions — the tested AUD/CAD history carried no swap on the long side, so the 77 buys cost nothing to carry. 120 of the 143 trades stayed open across at least one night, with a median hold of about 66 hours and a longest of 26 days. Your broker's rates will differ. Commission was zero in this run.
- Why does it trade so rarely?
- Both an RSI extreme on a four-hour bar and a free position slot are needed, and AUD/CAD reaches those extremes only a handful of times a year. Across the measured record it averaged about nineteen trades a year, and the rate is unusually steady — every full year in the record falls between fifteen and twenty-four.
- The total profit looks small — why?
- Because it trades rarely and gives most of each move back to the trailing stop. 143 trades over seven and a half years came to 1,056.95 on a $10,000 account with a maximum drawdown of -3.24%. It is one of the smaller totals in this catalogue and the shallowest drawdown of our AUD/CAD builds — the figure is published as measured rather than scaled up by a larger lot.
- 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.