New EA, first real test. Strong day on gold — but I’m putting it on demo first, and I’ll tell you exactly why.
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This weekend I finished a new forex EA. Before it ever touches real money, it earns its place on a demo account first — so these are demo forward-test results, shown in full: the strong parts and the parts that lost.
✅ Verified results: These figures come straight from my tracked account. You don’t have to take my word for it — view the live verified track record here. Verification is what separates real results from screenshots anyone could fake.
The headline: gold is the real edge
On the demo account, one instrument clearly carried the strategy. Trading XAUUSD (gold), the EA produced:
- 85% win rate across 55 trades — not a one-off spike, but a consistent bias
- +$682 profit from gold alone
- A day session of roughly +$649 overall
- About +14.8% on the month (demo)
An 85% win rate on a single instrument across 55 trades is a genuine, believable signal — exactly the kind of edge worth developing further.
Now the part most EA sellers hide: the losses
If I only showed you the gold number, I’d be doing exactly what I promised never to do on this site. Here is the honest, full breakdown by instrument:
| Instrument | Trades | Win % | Profit (demo) | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XAUUSD (Gold) | 55 | 85% | +$682 | ✅ The edge — keep |
| ZECUSD | 112 | 50% | −$185 | ⚠️ Choppy — review |
| BTCUSD | 32 | 47% | −$42 | ⚠️ Net negative |
| NZDUSD | 20 | 45% | −$31 | ❌ Cut or rework |
| NZDCAD | 17 | 41% | −$20 | ❌ Cut or rework |
| EURUSD | 17 | 35% | −$10 | ❌ Weak |
| SOLUSD | 36 | 19% | −$5 | ❌ Worst win rate |
| ETHUSD | 34 | 32% | −$2 | ❌ Cut |
Per-instrument breakdown from the demo forward-test. Gold is the strategy; most other pairs currently lose money.
Three things I want to be straight about:
- Drawdown reached 16%. That’s significant. An EA that draws down 16% on demo can do the same or worse live — position size with that in mind.
- Most non-gold instruments lost money. SOLUSD was the worst, losing 81% of its trades. This isn’t a money-printer across the board — it’s a gold strategy with side-bets that are bleeding.
- It traded heavily — 184 trades in a day. High frequency means real-account spreads and slippage will bite far harder than they do on demo. This is the main reason I never trust a demo result until it survives live spreads.
The honest verdict — and what happens next
This is a promising start with one clear strength and a list of weaknesses I now have to fix before real money is ever involved. My next steps:
- Disable or rework the consistently losing instruments (ETHUSD, SOLUSD, NZD pairs).
- Re-test with the gold edge isolated, to see if it holds on its own.
- Run it against live spreads before drawing any conclusion — demo profit is step one, not proof.
That unglamorous tuning is the part that actually decides whether an EA makes money or quietly blows an account. I’ll post the next round of results here, win or lose.
Important: These are demo / forward-test results, not live trading. Not financial advice. Trading forex and CFDs carries a high risk of loss — most retail traders lose money, and demo performance frequently fails to survive a real account. These are my own results and opinions. Never trade money you can’t afford to lose.