Not measured here. live signal performance, individual risk sizing, alternative settings. Declared alternatives can be measured as separate matrix runs.
Sizing invariant Profit concentration, Active trading days, Trade count, Spread sensitivity per trade, Drawdown duration in trading days, Holding times, Win rate.
Sizing dependent CAGR, Drawdown in percent, Absolute PnL.
The full audit answers this with every finding with severity, mechanism and the exact numbers behind it.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with the chain of custody, pairing confidence, balance reconstruction to the cent, real tick coverage and the tester log evidence.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with grid, martingale and hedging forensics measured from the deal list, the sub strategy split and the exit signature.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with the symbol's own move over the traded span against the long and short profit split.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with profit, trades and win rate per year, long against short, over the symbol's own move.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictOpen sample. This section is shown in full, exactly as buyers see it. Every other section goes just as deep.
Commission retrofitted at 3.5 USD per lot per side on every deal, not tester-native. The balance chain was rebuilt deterministically.
The report-head "Sharpe" is trade-based and not comparable to an annualized daily Sharpe. The EOD figure is the honest one.
| Net profit | 35.23 | reconstructed |
| Commission | -95.36 | reconstructed |
| Commission model | commission retrofitted at 3.50/lot/side, not tester-native | |
| Swap | 4.95 | reconstructed |
| Gross before costs | 125.64 | reconstructed |
| Cost share of gross | 72.0% | reconstructed |
| Overnight trades | 318 | reconstructed |
| Tested history | First trade 0.0 years after the window opens; the tested history effectively starts 2017-10-05 | |
| EOD Sharpe (annualized) | 0.38 | reconstructed |
| Report-head 'Sharpe' | 2.83 | exact |
| CAGR | 0.0% | reconstructed |
| Max drawdown (EOD) | 0.0% | reconstructed |
The full audit answers this with the exact number of days carrying 80 percent of profit, best and worst days with dates.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with every drawdown episode with depth, dates and the trades that dug each hole.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with the fresh start survival map, death zones, the computed death chain and the deposit ladder.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with the release timeline, the guaranteed out of sample window and its performance against the rest.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with the break even cost shock, the cost shock curve and the result without the best trades.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictReplayed with these exact rules. The prop fit verdict above comes from these parameters, applied day by day. The numbers it produced are inside the audit.
| Rule | IQ Capital Classic (funded) | FTMO Challenge | Generic 6% EOD trailing |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drawdown mode | EOD trailing | static | EOD trailing |
| Drawdown limit | 6% | 10% | 6% |
| Daily loss limit | no such rule | 5% | no such rule |
| Max position loss | 0.5% | no such rule | no such rule |
| Consistency rule | 30% | no such rule | no such rule |
| Overnight positions | allowed | allowed | allowed |
| Weekend positions | allowed | allowed | allowed |
IQ Capital Classic (funded): rules as of 2026-08-13, source https://support.iqcapital.io
FTMO Challenge: rules as of 2026-08-13, source https://ftmo.com/en/how-it-works/ + academy/maximum-daily-loss + faq weekend
Generic 6% EOD trailing: rules as of 2026-08-12, source generisch, keine Firmenquelle
The full audit answers this with account deaths per sizing, daily loss and consistency breaches for every rule set.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with the Monte Carlo equity fan, drawdown percentiles, losing streaks, ruin probability and challenge pass rates.
See the exact numbers behind this verdictThe full audit answers this with the withdrawal replay with months paid, dry streaks, the monthly heatmap and the capital what if.
See the exact numbers behind this verdict| Pairing confidence | How entry and exit deals were matched into trades. 'Exact' means taken from the tester log, 'validated' means FIFO/LIFO reproduced the report's holding-time figures, and 'heuristic' means an unconfirmed FIFO assumption. |
| EOD Sharpe (annualized) | Sharpe ratio computed from end-of-day balance returns, annualized with the square root of 252. Comparable across systems, unlike the report-head 'Sharpe', which is per-trade. |
| Cost share of gross | Commission plus swap as a share of gross profit before costs. High values mean the edge is eaten by fees and financing. |
| Max drawdown (EOD) | Largest peak-to-trough loss of the end-of-day balance curve. |
| Floating drawdown (sampled) | Largest drawdown of reconstructed equity (balance plus open-position value), sampled at deal timestamps. Between deals equity is unobservable from a report. The tester-head equity DD is tick-based. |
| Martingale | Position sizing that grows after losses. Looks smooth for months, then loses the account in one streak. |
| Consistency rule | Prop-firm rule capping the best day's share of total profit. It punishes concentrated profit profiles. |
| Account deaths | Number of times the simulated account breached the profile's drawdown floor over this history (account is then reset and the simulation continues). |
| Withdrawal %/a | Yearly withdrawal as percent of account size in the sweep simulation (profits above start are swept daily). |
| Z-Score | Serial correlation of the win/loss sequence. Strongly negative values often just reflect several sub-strategies interleaving, not necessarily a defect. |
| Monte-Carlo resampling | Re-arranging or re-drawing the audited trades many times to see the range of drawdowns and streaks the same trading could have produced. It cannot add information. It reveals path fragility, not future returns. |
| Block bootstrap | Bootstrap that draws whole multi-day blocks of the daily PnL series instead of single trades, preserving short-range clustering (losing weeks stay losing weeks). |
| Ruin probability (floor only) | Share of resampled paths that breach the profile's drawdown floor at least once, with profits above start swept. The firm's full rule set is stricter, so this is a lower bound. |
| Time under water | Longest stretch of trading days a path spends below its previous balance peak. |
| Withdrawal replay | Re-plays the backtest with a monthly payout. On the last trading day of each month, everything above the start balance is withdrawn. Shows what the strategy pays a trader who lives off it, instead of compounding like a backtest. |
| Dry streak | Longest run of consecutive months in which the monthly withdrawal was zero, the months a trader living off the account would have earned nothing. |
| Lot policy | Whether the EA trades fixed lot sizes or scales them with the balance, detected from the variation of lot sizes across the deal list. |
| Capital what-if | The observed USD path re-expressed against a different account size (fixed lots). Drawdown percentages and floor-breach risk change with capital even though the trades are identical. Margin limits are not modeled. |
| Underlying vs. strategy | The symbol's own price move over the traded span, approximated from entry prices. If most profit is long-side while the symbol itself rose strongly, part of the result is the market's tailwind, not the mechanics. The tester cannot separate the two. |
| Drawdown episodes | One episode runs from a balance peak through its deepest trough until the peak is regained (peak to recovery), on the end-of-day balance curve. The deepest episode is the max drawdown (EOD). The table shows which trades and sub-strategies dug each hole. |
| Take-home after tax | Total withdrawn multiplied by one minus a user-supplied flat rate. Pure arithmetic on the withdrawal table, no tax law modeled. It stays off unless a rate is provided. |
| Cost fragility | How quickly the result dies as per-trade costs rise. The break-even shock is the extra cost per trade (spread, slippage, commission) at which net profit reaches zero. High-frequency systems often die at cents. |
| Fresh start survival | With fixed lots the dollar swings that follow any date are identical for every account, so each start date has an exact, measured fate. A fresh account started there dies if the balance path later falls at least one deposit below its starting level. Death-chain runs concatenate into one continuous profit path. Computed from the closed balance curve, where a floating check would only be stricter. |
| Release timeline | The backtest runs the current EA version over history that mostly predates it. Candles before the release were visible during development, and candles up to the last update were visible to at least one refit. Only the window after the last update is guaranteed out of sample, and it must be judged together with its length. |
| Provenance labels | Where a number comes from. 'Exact' is taken as printed from the tester report or journal. 'Reconstructed' is recomputed by the engine from the deal list and journal, deterministic but a model of the run. 'Unavailable' cannot be derived from a report at all and is stated instead of silently approximated. |
A good backtest cannot prove an edge. This audit dissects the simulation you gave it. It can expose structural risks (martingale, grids, hidden concentration, cost fragility, rule conflicts), but it cannot tell you that the strategy will make money. Three limits are fundamental.
This audit is software analysis, not investment advice, and contains no recommendation to buy or trade anything.
The evidence is the product. The verdict lamps above are public. The audit contains what proves them: the exact numbers, tables, replays and simulations.
We measure it instead of guessing. The audit replays three prop rule sets (IQ Capital, FTMO, a generic 6% trailing profile) day by day over all 1,192 reconstructed trades, then runs the challenge as a Monte Carlo simulation at seven position sizings, with intraday equity resolution. The pass probability curve for OilVector X MT5 is inside the audit.
The audit contains a withdrawal replay. The strategy is re run as if someone lived off it, with monthly payouts, months paid versus dry months and the longest dry streak, plus a safe sizing table answering how small you must trade to keep ruin risk under 10%. The numbers for OilVector X MT5 are inside the audit.
We classify structure from the deal list, not from the equity curve. Split tickets, adds into adverse moves and size escalation are counted, not guessed. The audit states the classification for OilVector X MT5 with the exact counts behind it.
Vendor live signals and social screenshots are outside our control, so we do not grade them. What we audit is a controlled strategy tester run under one documented protocol, real ticks, vendor defaults, tester log included. That evidence is reproducible and cannot be cherry picked after the fact. The audit shows exactly what that run supports for OilVector X MT5.
The vendor's own recommended defaults, unchanged. Deposit, leverage and every input follow the product page or the vendor's published set, and the audit records the full input list from the tester run. Where a preset series exists, each preset is audited separately and the page names the one you are reading.
We do not answer that with an opinion. The audit answers it with measurements. The verdict lamps on this page are public, and behind them sit the exact numbers, the cost autopsy, the concentration test, the prop rule replay and the Monte Carlo stress for OilVector X MT5. Read those and the answer becomes yours, not ours.
That much is public on this page. The verdict lamps above show all six dimensions, and the equity shape since release is open too. What the audit sells is the evidence behind those lamps: the exact numbers, tables, replays and simulations.
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