- Is there any martingale, grid, or averaging down?
- No. The EA holds at most one position, always 0.1 lot, with a fixed stop attached at entry. It never adds to a loser and never scales size after wins or losses. MaxPositions is capped at 1 in the build.
- How was the published record measured?
- In the MetaTrader 5 strategy tester on Exness AUD/CAD M1 history, every tick generated from M1 bars (Model 0), from January 2019 to August 2026, 0.1 lot on a $10,000 balance — 108 trades, profit factor 1.38, max balance drawdown 4.51%. The exact binary, preset and full trade ledger behind those numbers are the ones shipped on this page.
- Are swap costs included in the numbers?
- Yes. Positions regularly stay open for days to weeks, and the record's per-deal swap totals -$521 across the 108 trades — it is inside the published profit figures, not on top of them. One 3.5-month trade closed at -$148 against a nominal -$91 stop because of accumulated swap.
- Why did the record lose money from late 2025 to early 2026?
- AUD/CAD spent those months in a persistent one-way climb, and a reverter keeps selling extremes that keep extending. Six months of that cost about 5 points of equity from the August 2025 peak. That losing shape is structural for this strategy, not a defect that was patched afterwards — expect it again in strong trends.
- How often does it trade?
- About 1.2 trades a month on average — 108 trades in 7.6 years. The body-expansion filter rejects most RSI extremes; whole months can pass without a signal, and that is normal operation, not a broken install.