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Example Scalper Pro: 340% on the sales page, 41% in my tester
Sold on a 340% backtest and a promise of 15% max drawdown. I got 41% and a 62% drawdown that would have margin-called most accounts. It also doubles down after losses, which the sales page somehow forgot to mention.
Trust Index — Claims do not hold up
This tracks whether whoever sells this is being straight with you. It is not a safety rating and not a profit forecast — plenty of honest people sell terrifying software.
Carries 2 risk characteristics that this score ignores on purpose.
Check my maths
- Starting point (I know nothing yet)
- 5.0
- Martingale(risk, not honesty)
- 0.0
- High drawdown(risk, not honesty)
- 0.0
- Purchased copy(context only)
- 0.0
- Trust Index
- 2.0
Weights are written down in advance on the badges page and applied the same way to everything. Every finding above has evidence attached below.
The pitch
Low-risk EURUSD scalper. 340% in two years. Maximum drawdown 15%. Tested, they say, on “real tick data with realistic spreads”.
Three claims. Let’s take them one at a time.
What I did
Bought it at full retail — no heads-up to the vendor — and ran it across eight years of Dukascopy tick data at 99.9% modelling quality, variable spread, $7 per lot commission. Everything you need to repeat that is in the table below.
What actually happened
Let’s start with the good news, because there is some: over eight years it made money. +41.2%. That’s a real result and I’m not going to pretend otherwise.
It’s just not their result.
Run over the vendor’s own 2022–2024 window, with the vendor’s own settings, I got 22.6%. They advertise 340%. That is not a broker difference. That is not a data difference. That is a gap you could park a bus in.
Then there’s the drawdown. They say 15% maximum. I measured 61.8%, in March 2020. If you’d been running this at the risk settings on the sales page, you wouldn’t have experienced a 61.8% drawdown — you’d have experienced a margin call and a long think about your life choices.
And the 78.4% win rate? Real, and completely beside the point. That’s what doubling down after losses looks like from the outside: a long, comforting run of small wins, then one afternoon that eats the year. The number that matters is the profit factor, and that’s 1.07 — which is to say, barely anything.
The bit that kills it
I reran the whole thing at a fixed 1.5 pip spread. Not a punishing spread. An ordinary retail one.
Eight years of profit turns negative.
The edge here is thinner than the spread most buyers of this EA will actually pay. It doesn’t need bad luck to lose money — it just needs a normal broker.
Should you buy it
If you know exactly what martingale sizing is, you’re genuinely fine with losing 60%+ of the account, and you’re trading on institutional spreads — then sure, this behaves the way you’d expect.
That’s a very small group of people, and it is emphatically not the group this thing is being sold to.
I asked the vendor about the drawdown gap and the MyFxbook account that quietly stopped existing. That was on 11 August. Still waiting.
The numbers, if you want them
What it actually did
EURUSD M5 · Jan 2018 – Jan 2026
- Net profit
- +41.2%
- Max drawdown
- 61.8%
- Profit factor
- 1.07
- Trades
- 3,184
- Win rate
- 78.4%
Exactly how I ran it
Everything you need to rerun this yourself and check.
- Platform
- MT5
- Symbol
- EURUSD
- Timeframe
- M5
- Period
- 01 Jan 2018 – 01 Jan 2026
- Data source
- Dukascopy tick data via Tick Data Suite 2.4
- Modelling quality
- 99.9%
- Spread
- variable, from tick data
- Commission
- 7 USD per lot round turn
- Starting balance
- 10,000 USD
- Leverage
- 1:100
The receipts
Every finding above, with the thing that proves it and the date I grabbed it.
- 01
Vendor advertises 340% net profit for 2022–2024 on EURUSD M5. My run over the same period with their published settings returned 22.6% — a deviation far beyond the 25% threshold I publish.
Backtest reportCaptured 10 Aug 2026Backtest not reproducible
- 02
Trade log shows lot size progressing 0.01 → 0.02 → 0.04 → 0.08 following consecutive losses, resetting after each win.
Trade logCaptured 10 Aug 2026Martingale
- 03
Relative maximum drawdown of 61.8% reached in March 2020, against the vendor's advertised "maximum 15% drawdown".
Backtest reportCaptured 10 Aug 2026High drawdown
- 04
No verified live account found. The MyFxbook link on the sales page resolves to a deleted account; the vendor did not supply an alternative when asked.
Archived pageCaptured 09 Aug 2026No verified live account