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What a signal page leaves out, measured on real anonymized accounts.
Anatomy of a bad signal
A 91% win rate can lose money
A win rate says how often a strategy wins, not how much. With small wins and large losses, 91 wins in 100 trades can still lose money.
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How much money do you need to copy a signal safely
A copied signal needs room for its worst drawdown and for the margin of its largest positions. How to size the deposit, and what real signals need.
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Anatomy of a bad signal
Winners closed in hours, losers held for days
Many signals close winners fast and hold losers for days. The closed record then looks calm while the open losses are where the risk sits.
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Statistics for traders
Risk of ruin, explained with a slider
Risk of ruin is the chance of losing a set share of your capital before an edge pays off. The formula, a slider, and three real signals it misjudged.
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Your spread is not the signal's spread: cost sensitivity
A signal's profit already paid its own spread. Copy it and you pay yours on top. A strategy that keeps a few pips a trade has little room for that.
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Statistics for traders
What Monte Carlo can and cannot tell you about a backtest
Shuffling a strategy's trades shows how deep its drawdown could have been. It cannot see trades that depend on each other, or a market it never met.
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Anatomy of a bad signal
Grid depth: the number that predicts the blow-up
A grid wins often and grows smoothly until one move goes too far. How deep a grid goes tells you how far that move must be, before it happens.
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Anatomy of a bad signal
How deposits hide drawdown
A balance chart mixes deposits with trading. Three real accounts show money paid in passing for growth, and the one number deposits cannot move.
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What MQL5 Reliability measures, and what it does not
Reliability ranks a signal against other signals. It does not show grid depth, deposits inside a drawdown or your costs. Here is what to check instead.
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