Lost 3.8% over 32 months.
458 closed trades, ending at $9,621 from a $10,000 start, with a 8.8% drawdown along the way. A small loss spread over a long sample is the ordinary way a weak EA fails: it is not a crash, it is a slow transfer of the account to the spread and the broker.
| Return over 32 months | -3.79% |
| Per month | -0.12% |
| Max drawdown (equity) | 8.77% |
| Trades opened | 459 |
| Trades closed | 458 |
| Win rate | 51.3 |
| Average win / loss | $26.00 / $27.67 |
| Reward : risk | 0.94 |
| Final balance | $9,621 |
| Stopped out | no |
Rank 173 of 372 by raw return.
EURUSD H1 · Feb 2024 - Oct 2026 (32 months) · spread 17 points (1.7 pip), measured on the live feed · Open prices only · $10,000 start · 0.01 lot step · MT4 build 1492, local machine. Same harness for all 372 files, and the raw row for this one is in the public CSV. Conditions matter more than the verdict: an EA that fails here can still work on another pair, another timeframe or a broker with tighter spreads.
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