The problem with most fly-by-night quick-buck Forex EAs released in the past was that a person/programmer created something that could show huge profits over a very short time. Every Tom Dick and Harry bought the robot thinking they will achieve the same results (ForexID10T included!).

BUT a robot that works on one broker fails miserably on another broker, even if the same deposit value is used, same settings - everything the same except the broker - the difference in spread and connection to the broker server, order execution speed are all factors that can either make or break the robot.

SECONDLY the market is forever evolving - a static SL, TP etc will not continue to work into the future if left on the original settings. Many more points to mention, but most of these robots required constant optimisation and adjustments to adapt or try to keep up with the changing markets. If you do not get frequent EA software updates, you might as well delete the robot after 6 months to a year as by that time it either stopped trading or it is beginning to lose more and more of your account.

So far I have only found a few (Less than 5) robots that is worthwhile and a true investment - these robots are based upon clear trading strategies, have a brilliant money mangement system and even after years since initial release, still perform just as well today as when they were originally 'sold' to the market - because of constant updates, they are even more profitable and much more adaptive to changing market conditions today than what they were a few years ago.

Years ago I coined a term called the Forex Acid Test - To really check if a robot is worth its weight, do a backtest with only $500 as the deposit and run the test over a period of 3 years on the default (out-of-the-box) settings as recommended by the robot vendor. If that robot can survive this Acid Test and produce a huge profit, it is something worth keeping. Only 2 robots out of literally hundreds survived this test.

In my opinion Forex Envy is one of those to keep.

First you need to download history data of the currency pair your robot uses (example EUR/USD M1) - lets say from 2009 up to current (Jul 2012) - that is 3.5 years of data.

When you run strategy tester (The little icon with the magnifying glass on the top bar or the terminal- next to New Order button) a window below the chart will open.

In this new window you set the start date and end date - on the 'Use Date' boxes enter 01 July 2009 as the start date and 01 July 2012 as the end date - you first have to tick Use Date to allow changes.

On the right side of the window is a text block 'Expert properties' Click that and on the inputs tab you set the deposit amount to $500.

Tick the Visual mode box and slide the bar next to visual mode to max to speed up the process. (Before I knew about this I was waiting days for tests to complete :) - real id10t me!

Start the test. When the test is completed, check the bottom Report tab for the end results. While the test is running you can click on the Graph tab to look at the equity curve rising and falling with trades. You can also look at the Results tab to see how much the robot is winning and loosing.

Take care

Barry

Forex Envy do not show the leverage..
That means 'using 1:1000' (Check this EA broker > TradeFort)
That means if you are use has quality brokers (FXCM, Oanda, etc.) U might get Margin Call..

Shame with closed leverage option, eh!

Men, forget this martingale, its madness, it blow off my 75,000 cents account with both short and long circle, with 0.03 on long circle and 0.05 on short circle, all blown up within 1 month and some few days with madness lot size when there is gap or news

I tell people to stay away

Its suicide bomber



devilsoulll posted:
I have a question for ForexEnvy Ea Maker.. and seriously I'm not joking.

If it's true that this ea can get you 110% profit and can never lose and so.. Why you need money for selling it?? why don't you use your own work to get BIG amount of money as you stated rather than selling it to earn money?

Please answer.

Thank you,,

i agree with you willgart