[Alan Northam]

Hi Traders,

WEEKLY REPORT

Week of April 28, 2024 through May 3, 2024. The following are the eleventh week results of trading 10 Expert Advisors (EA) I created using EA Studio.  These Expert Advisors are the same Expert Advisors I have been trading for the last eleven weeks without any upgrades or optimizations.  The only thing I changed with these Expert Advisors is the lot size each week.  These Expert Advisors are being traded on my Infinity Forex Fund (IFF) 100K Algo One Step Evaluation account. I analyzed the results this week using FXblue where I sorted this past one week trading results by sorting the “Net pips” column from most pips gained to most pips lost this past week. I then looked at the Net Profit column to determine profits and losses for the week. The following are the results along with the changes made for trading next week:

This past week ended with a profit of $253.90 and an account balance of $109,678.27. The price target to become a funded account is $110,000. To reduce risk of this next week of significantly drawing down this account, since it is so close to hitting the price target and becoming funded, I am going to continue to limit the risk to the account to 1%.

There were six profitable currency pairs this past week having a profit factor of 1.2 or greater. However, two of the pairs, GBPJPY and EURGBP, will not be traded this next week because over the last ten weeks they produced an overall loss of -0.14% and -0.01% respectively. I will adjust the lot size of each of the four currency pairs I will be trading this next week to have an account risk 0.25% for a total account risk of 1%. The other six currency pairs will have their lot size adjusted to 0.01 lots.

Note:  The percentages in parenthesis show the percent gain of each currency pair over the last 11 weeks.
AUDUSD(+1.09%): 0.46 Lot size
USDJPY(+0.90%): 0.39 Lot size
USDCHF(+0.78%): 0.41 Lot size
GBPUSD(+0.55%): 0.29 Lot size

USDCAD(+4.03%): 0.01 Lot size
EURUSD(+1.93%): 0.01 Lot size
GBPJPY(-0.13%): 0.01 Lot size
EURJPY(+0.29%): 0.01 Lot size
NZDUSD(-0.08%): 0.01 Lot size
EURGBP(-0.01%): 0.01 Lot size

This first chart shows the trading results for this past week:

 

This chart shows trend line of the cumulative profit since inception:

This chart shows the statistics of this account since inception:

This chart shows 10 of the last 11 weeks of this Evaluation have been profitable:

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi paul4x,

No, its the strategy tester built into MT4 and MT5.  Open MT4 or MT5 and click Ctrl+R.  If you do not know how to use them check Youtube.

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Abigail,

Yes you can load in into a demo account. There could be a few reasons why it is not placing trades. Can you send a screenshot of the upper left area of the trading chart so we can review what is being said? Once I know what the problem is then we can fix it!

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Anne,

You will need to make some changes in the EA properties box.  Just let me know what the Max daily drawdown, Max loss, Price target is for the prop firm challenge, also what risk level you want to take and I can calculate the changes you need to make for your 130K challenge.

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi paul4x,

You can use the metatrader Strategy Tester to see if the EA is placing trades.  The results should give you an idea as to how often trades are placed.

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi pratik,

I don’t have any experience with trade copiers so I cannot recommend one.

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Sandra,

This will most likely change the performance.  Let us know how the testing goes!

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi pratik,

yes you can do that!

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Anne,

The first thing you need to do is to make sure you have properly selected the parameters for the Prop Firm EA you want to download and trade.  The following chart shows you need to select the Account size of the prop firm challenge, then you need to select the Max Loss requirement of the prop firm, then the Max daily loss, the Profit target, the Risk, and finally the News filter option you want.

Then you need to download the EA and install it on a prop firm challenge that matches the account size selected.  For example, if you have started a 10K prop firm challenge, then you need to seleTct the $10,000 account in the Prop Firm Robot app.  If you select a $10,000 account in the Prop Firm Robot app and then install the EA in a prop firm challenge with a different account size the robot will not work until you adjust the account protections in the EA.

Then if you have properly installed the EA in metatrader and have either a smiley face of a blue hat in the upper right corner of the trading chart you should be all set up and the EAs should start trading.

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi VapoChill,

These are the correct amounts for Stop Loss and Take Profit as each pip is worth $0.9 dollars. Keep in mind these EAs have indicators build into them that tells them when to take trades and when to take profits and when to cut losses. These indicators will normally trigger when to open and close trades before the market reaches the Stop Loss and Take Profit hard limits.

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Maarten,

After 10 hours here is the best performing EA:

In this screenshot you can see the Stop Loss range and Take Profit range in dollars I selected.  Then I clicked on Edit and then clicked on Report to see the stats.

 

Here are the stats:

Here you can see many statistics about this EA.  I only boxed in one of the stats because you were worried about how to determine account risk.  The boxed in stat shows that over the last one year of backtesting the worse case trade had a loss of 9.89%.  So you could use this to set your account risk.

 

Here I have shown an example on how to use EA Studio to find some EAs for XAUUSD.  Hope this helps to get you going!

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Anne,

This happens when one of the account protections was activated. You can see this in the upper left corner of the trading charts. To resolve this issue you need to modify the Account Protections which is located in the EA properties box.

This usually occurs when downloading the robots where the account balance chosen doesn’t match the actual prop firm account balance.

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Maarten,

Once I realized there were some strategies with maximum drawdown of 8% or $160 I set the Stop Loss to $200.  I then set take profit to $400 to $1000.  This then provided a RRR of 1:2 through 1:5.  I will now let EA Studio run for 10 hours to collect strategies.  I will report my results then.

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Gareth,

Happy to hear you are using Express Generator to create strategies.  I am also using EG to create thousands of strategies.  I then filter them with EA Studio.

Happy to hear you are not in any rush to move to live accounts.  This is a wise decision.  Make sure you can create profitable EAs before risking real $$$’s.

Here is a link to my other challenge using EA’s created with Express Generator and EA Studio.  This challenge has been going on now for 10 weeks.  Each week I have been documenting my progress and lot size changes.  Also note I have not updated the EA’s.  The same EA’s have been working now for 10 weeks and I am close to completing the challenge and getting a funded account.

Ongoing Challenge: 10 EAs from EA Studio

I have 5 projects going at the moment but I am only sharing 2 of them in the forum.  All using EA’s I created with EG and EA Studio.  All are moving in profitable direction.  Two of the 5 projects are actually live brokerage accounts.  So yes EG and EA Studio works!

Keep up the good work you are doing!

Alan,

[Alan Northam]

Hi Vincenzo,

You do not need to use !0K$ account size.
To calculate lot size I use this calculator:
https://www.babypips.com/tools/position-size-calculator

If you need help on how to use the calculator let me know!

Alan,

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