EA review - FXAdept

FXAdept is a trend following expert advisor that operates on the USDJPY pair with H1 timeframe. It cannot be applied to other currency pairs. It does not use a typical grid or martingale strategy, however, it can open multiple positions in the same direction. 

The vendor himself describes the entry rules this way:

"We have found a fairly accurate pattern by which we determine the main trend and open a trade always in the direction of the Market. For that we use the RSI indicator, but we use it in a non-standard way. We find long flat periods according to RSI, when the price is inside the corridor of the boundaries of RSI indicator, and at their breakdown we understand that the trend begins. Carefully selected settings and additional filters allow us to open profitable trades with a high probability in the direction of the trend."

Once a trend has been identified, a position will be opened in the direction of the trend. In some cases, depending on the price movements, it will add further positions in the direction of the trend. In case of a trend reversal, additional positions in the opposite direction can be added. While this technically represents a basket approach, the EA rarely exceeds two or three open positions at the same time.

FXAdept uses wide stop losses and take profit limits of up to several hundred pips. However, usually positions are closed before these limits are reached.

The currently available live results show a win rate of 56% after 278 trades with an average win of 35.4 pips vs. an average loss of 20.91 pips. These trades where executed within 23 months, so you can expect around 12 trades per month.

Stagnation periods of a few months can occur with this strategy, however, the current results show a quite stable strategy.

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Live performance

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• USDJPY

Full backtest report

Symbol		USDJPY (US Dollar vs Japanese Yen)
Period		1 Hour (H1) 2010.01.04 00:00 - 2019.09.26 08:00 (2010.01.01 - 2019.09.27)
Model		Every tick (the most precise method based on all available least timeframes)
Parameters		AutoRisk=false; StartLot=0.1; RiskLimit=80; Slippage=20; NFA=false;
Bars in test	60765	Ticks modelled	151503829	Modelling quality	99.90%
Mismatched charts errors	0
Initial deposit	10000.00			Spread	Variable
Total net profit	12372.29	Gross profit	22853.64	Gross loss	-10481.35
Profit factor	2.18	Expected payoff	12.89
Absolute drawdown	122.61	Maximal drawdown	920.41 (4.92%)	Relative drawdown	7.32% (826.73)
Total trades	960	Short positions (won %)	480 (62.50%)	Long positions (won %)	480 (56.88%)
		Profit trades (% of total)	573 (59.69%)	Loss trades (% of total)	387 (40.31%)
Largest		profit trade	154.13	loss trade	-421.17
Average		profit trade	39.88	loss trade	-27.08
Maximum		consecutive wins (profit in money)	15 (535.19)	consecutive losses (loss in money)	9 (-240.98)
Maximal		consecutive profit (count of wins)	535.19 (15)	consecutive loss (count of losses)	-441.17 (3)
Average		consecutive wins	2	consecutive losses	2