Use the three-EA risk calculator
Set individual EA risk, compare fixed reference with current balance and understand what the historical calculator graph can and cannot show.
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MT5 guides for
backtests & EA risk.
Practical guides for informed EA decisions. Understand the assumptions behind a curve, compare risk fairly and review a portfolio before trading.
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16 guides & resources
Read monthly and yearly EA performance
Interpret monthly profit and loss, annual returns, missing months, deposits and combined EA results without confusing balance with equity.
Read guide →Check broker symbols, lots and trading costs
Check USDJPY, gold and index contracts, symbol suffixes, minimum lots, sessions, costs and margin before transferring an EA setup to another broker.
Read guide →Test EA parameters and timeframes fairly
Design a small sensitivity test, inspect parameter neighborhoods and retest timeframes without treating a winning setting as proof against overfitting.
Read guide →Run and monitor EAs on a VPS
Prepare an EA migration, prevent duplicate execution and check journals, open orders and restart recovery on a VPS.
Read guide →Set up ADX, Monday and Gold together
A practical sequence for combining the three TradeBerger EAs: reference setups, per-EA risk, account checks and a shared operating record.
Read guide →MT5 real-tick backtests: what to check
Check a real-tick MT5 backtest beyond its modeling label: broker history, missing data, settings, trade execution and the evidence to save.
Read guide →1% EA risk: fixed reference or current balance?
Understand 1% of fixed 10,000 capital versus 1% of current balance, lot rounding and combined EA exposure. Worked arithmetic examples and sizing checks.
Read guide →Equity drawdown, losing streaks and recovery
Read balance and equity separately, inspect floating losses and recovery duration, and understand why a 25% loss needs a 33.3% recovery gain.
Read guide →Backtest vs forward test: a fair comparison
Compare backtests and forward tests with matched dates, executable, risk basis and costs. Distinguish historical splits, demo, real-money and independent holdouts.
Read guide →EA trading costs: stress the net result
Stress spread, commission, swaps and slippage without double-counting costs. Learn the difference between native MT5 reruns and modeled after-the-fact deductions.
Read guide →Monte Carlo and overfitting in EA backtests
Understand shuffled trades, bootstrap and parameter sensitivity. Make Monte Carlo assumptions reproducible and avoid treating simulated bands as future guarantees.
Read guide →EA portfolio correlation and combined results
Compare EA correlations using aligned periodic returns. Understand combined monthly P/L, capital denominators, simultaneous risk and genuine portfolio equity drawdown.
Read guide →EA setup in MT5: practical checks before trading
Review presets, broker symbols, stops, margin, account type, magic numbers and restart behavior before running an Expert Advisor. Practical evidence checks for MT5.
Read guide →Free EA risk calculator
Explore per-EA risk, fixed reference, current balance, lot rounding and joint exposure.
Open resource →Download: detailed backtest checklist
25 pages, 184 checkpoints, 22 diagrams and 210 fillable fields. English and German PDF.
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