Every product carries two independent sets of numbers: what the author shows on their own accounts, and what buyers actually got. The second one the author cannot touch — they can neither add an account to it nor remove an inconvenient one.
The market for expert advisors is built so that the only evidence available before purchase is supplied by the person selling. Four consequences follow, and every one of them costs the buyer money.
The account on display was chosen by the author — and chosen after the result was already known. Ten accounts traded, one is shown.
Without slippage, requotes and real execution a demo result says nothing about an EA. In this ranking demo accounts are not accepted at all.
«Scalper», «intelligent algorithm», «proprietary position management» — any of these can be a martingale that draws a flat curve for six months and closes the account in a day.
Whoever lost money more often leaves quietly than writes an analysis. The loudest voice is rarely the representative one.
The author connects their own accounts and backtests — that is the first contour, and it is theirs to curate. The second is assembled from the accounts of buyers who switched participation on themselves. It is the one worth reading, precisely because it cannot be arranged.
Martingale, grid, missing broker-side stop — all of it is derived from lot progression and the sequence of positions, separately for each magic series, so two advisors on one account are not mistaken for one martingale.
Drawdown, recovery factor, expectancy, profit factor and the share of profitable sources — each saturating, so a single outlier cannot buy the top of the table. The methodology opens in one click from the ranking, and its numbers are read from the live settings rather than retyped by hand.
Not one averaged curve but a fan of them: the median, the middle half and the tails across every account. Each one starts at zero on the first day of the window, so accounts of different age can be compared at all.
The same numbers answer very different things depending on which side of the purchase you are on.
See what the product gave people rather than its author. Find out whether there is a martingale under the smooth curve — and how the result looks at your own broker.
Show a second source of data that you do not control. It is the strongest trust signal available, and it separates you from anyone displaying a hand-picked account.
Find out whether an advisor survives firm rules before you attach it: drawdown, behaviour of position series, presence of a broker-side stop.
The section is built on numbers being trustworthy, so its limits belong on this page rather than in the small print.
Not a single figure on a card is a forecast. A strategy that worked for two years can stop working tomorrow.
Participants opted in themselves. Whoever abandoned the advisor after losses is underrepresented, and we do not correct for it.
It can produce false positives. A flag is a reason to look closer, not proof of anything.
Pooled figures describe the strategy, percentile figures describe what a typical participant got. They are computed differently and are not comparable with each other.