Blog: reading EA evidence like an auditor
Why backtests lie, how to read tester reports, and what our audits measure. The method is free; the verdicts are in the catalog.
Aura Gold Pro Edition lost the tested account
Aura Gold Pro Edition lost $117,689.22 after costs and exhausted the tested $100,000 account. The audit also flags simultaneous long and short exposure.
Quantum Queen MT5 review: the long history starts late
Quantum Queen earned 4,597.04 USD, but its first trade came 14.7 years into the available history and its baskets reached 17 simultaneous positions.
What our software tests can establish
Constructed examples check capital bases, changing position sizes and insufficient history.
Two tests in one journal: the field that says which run an audit read
All 33 audit files in our catalog on 4 September 2026 carried the tester journal next to the report and pair every trade from it.
What the changelogs claim: 376 updates and five numbers
Our market watch archives the vendor updates page of every product we follow, and the copy read on 2026-08-27 holds 376 version entries across 24 products.
Thirteen sellers behind twenty six audits: what the vendor line shows (September 2026)
Census of 4 September 2026: The 26 default audits carry 13 seller names, and six of those names carry 19 of them.
Twenty-four rewrites in twelve days: the product page is not a fixed document
Our market watch hashes every product description once a day and files a dated copy of the page when the hash moves.
The worst day, measured twice: what a daily loss rule sees that a trade log does not
Every audit measures the worst day twice, once from the trades that closed and once from the equity curve.
The stop loss that made money: exits labelled SL that closed in profit
A stop-loss exit is not automatically a losing exit. Smart Gold Impulse closed 3,672 of its 4,146 stopped trades in profit, which is why its audit marks a…
All earlier articles
- The window the vendor could not see: 13 of 26 audits have one at all (September 2026)
- The numbers that move with your lot: seven that travel and three that do not
- The price of a new listing: 98 arrivals and a median of 99.99 USD
- The lamp that cannot turn red: how our six verdict lamps are set
- The days it stayed out: what share of the window each robot traded
- The findings we can name: 145 flags across 26 audited backtests (September 2026)
- The busiest hour: 15 of 26 audits crowd into the same three hours of the day (September 2026)
- Ten caveats in every audit: what the engine writes about its own numbers
- The backtest that predates the product: 20 audits split at their release date (September 2026)
- Run it again: what 26 audits record about repeating a backtest (September 2026)
- Seven million bars or five thousand: what the tester actually read
- One version of fifty two: what the update history says about an audit
- One run, two capitals: which audit numbers move when the account does
- Nine of twenty earned less than they cost: list price against measured net profit (September 2026)
- OilVector X review: 1,192 oil trades and $1.52 more than buy and hold
- Five comparison files: what the catalog will not compare
- Held past Friday: what the weekend count on an audit page really counts
- Bigger than the deposit
- Years before the first trade: the test window is not the tested history
- The months that paid: what a monthly sweep would have paid out
- What holding would have paid: 13 of 22 audits earn less than the price move (September 2026)
- Surviving a prop firm floor is only half the test
- The label on every trade: what an EA writes about itself
- Scalping Robot Pro: both audited versions lose money
- Stacked is not a grid: read the direction, not the ticket count
- 532 Quantum Titan entry attempts were refused
- Same trades, another order: what a thousand reshuffles show
- Drawdown recovery can take years
- Eighty percent in three days: reading the concentration number
- The Gold Reaper: weighted lots left the risk warnings unchanged
- Range Breakout EA review: profit concentrated in 21 days
- Zero spread does not erase a grid's losses
- TwisterPro Scalper review: frequent wins still leave losing years
- Ultimate Breakout System review: it loses half its trades and earns anyway
- ThunderGold Scalper review: almost eleven years underwater for 30 dollars
- Smart Gold Impulse review: profitable, but sensitive to costs
- Scalping Robot Pro review: 302,798 trades that end below the deposit
- Smart Gold Hunter 2.0 review: 63 percent winners and a losing account
- Prop Firm Gold EA review: profit with a consistency problem
- Quantum Athena X review: the 23 year backtest that starts in 2018
- Logan MT5 review of one day that erased years of gains
- Market Anomalies EA review: the previous results are retired
- Lizard EA review: 21,524 trades over 23 years, and $183.99 left
- Gold Snap review: a narrow edge concentrated in a few days
- Gold Atlas review: profit concentrated in a few days
- Gold House MT5 review: the first four years are the honest part
- CryonX EA MT5 review: $0.84 of cost headroom per trade
- Adaptive Gold Scalper MT5 review: account size changes the drawdown
- Quantum Titan review: three audited versions, a short record
- Gold Trade Pro earns a profit but fails the consistency check
- Waka Waka review: the previous results are retired
- Quantum Queen X review: the delisted Queen, republished and measured
- The Gold Reaper review: 80% of the profit came from 60 days