APEX runs a NASDAQ session algorithm and a triple-engine GOLD algorithm side by side on your MT5 - around 8 to 9 trades a day across both markets, every entry, stop and target handled automatically. Free for members. The broker pays us, not you.
Get free accessSession windows are live and update with your clock. The feed below shows the winning trades from July 2026, the most recent complete month in the record. That month had 181 trades in total and 66 of them won, a 36% win rate - so the losing 115 are not shown here. The full month by month record, losses included, is further down this page. Not live signals.
Most algo sellers show you their best quarter. Here is every completed month of the combined NASDAQ + GOLD backtest since January 2025, red months included, in R units (1R = your risk per trade). Fourteen green, five red, +196R in total. The current month is still running so it is not counted yet. The reds are part of the system and surviving them is the whole skill.
Plotted from 3,265 real closed trades across 19 completed months, drawn as 233 points so the line stays readable. The dips are real drawdowns, including the one running at the end of the record.
Same trade sequence at the 3% default, risk updated once a month, and sized the way the algo really sizes - honouring your broker's 0.01 minimum lot. This is £200 left completely alone, finishing at £13,626. Read the start before the end: the untouched account fell 79% from its high along the way. Compounding multiplies both directions. Educational simulation, not a forecast.
Five engines, two markets, and they take turns carrying the machine. Watch how the columns hedge each other: when NASDAQ has a red month, gold usually pays, and the other way round. That is why the combined column is smoother than any single engine.
NASDAQ = the dual session NASDAQ engine. GOLD = the three gold engines (Balanced, ORB and Hedge-Wear) combined (balanced pullback, opening range breakout, and a 72% win rate scalper). Every engine was validated separately on out-of-sample data and real tick history before earning its place.
Create your trading account with our partner broker through the member link. That referral is how the algo stays free: the broker pays us a commission for your trading, at no extra cost to you.
Enter your new account number, get your personal license key instantly, and one setup file installs BOTH algos into MetaTrader 5 for you - NASDAQ and GOLD.
Drop the NASDAQ algo on a NAS100 chart and the GOLD algo on an XAUUSD chart. Five independent engines trade the London and New York sessions with fixed stops and targets. You set one risk number per algo.
Same 19 months, translated to a real account trading fixed risk per trade on both algos. These are historical simulations including real spreads. They are not forecasts, not typical results, and no outcome is guaranteed. Note that every row includes the red months and the deepest drawdown, because your account has to live through those to reach the total.
| Fixed £10 risk per trade | |
|---|---|
| Account needed to stay under 3% | £334 |
| 19 month result | +£2,216 |
| Average month | approx +£117 |
| Worst month | -£109 |
| Deepest dip on the way | -£355 |
| Fixed £20 risk per trade | |
|---|---|
| Account needed to stay under 3% | £667 |
| 19 month result | +£3,981 |
| Average month | approx +£210 |
| Worst month | -£242 |
| Deepest dip on the way | -£644 |
| With monthly compounding (risk recalculated on balance - aggressive, theoretical) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Risk per trade | £500 becomes (12mo sim) | Worst month | Deepest dip |
| 1% of balance | approx £2,180 (4.4x) | approx -8% | approx -27% |
| 2% of balance | approx £7,340 (14.7x) | approx -15% | approx -46% |
Read the drawdown column like your account depends on it, because it does. The 2% compounding row only reached its total by surviving a 46% hole. This 12 month window was also a strong period for the model; the longer research record averages materially lower, and roughly one month in four is red. We publish the losing months and the full research to members because understanding drawdowns is the education. Nothing here is financial advice and simulated past performance does not predict future results.
The question everyone asks: what if you keep risking a fixed percentage and let the account grow? We did not model it with an average. We replayed all 3,265 real backtest trades in their exact order, recalculating the pound risk at the start of every month as the balance moved, from every possible 12-month starting date. Losing months included.
| Every risk setting, tested on every possible 12-month start date | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Risk per trade | £200 | £500 | £2,000 | £20,000 | Typical drawdown | Start dates survived |
| 1% | approx £325 | approx £1,225 | approx £5,573 | approx £58,383 | 22% | 8 of 8 |
| 2% | approx £1,297 | approx £3,254 | approx £13,686 | approx £142,647 | 40% | 8 of 8 |
| 3% (our default) | approx £3,443 | approx £6,846 | approx £29,431 | approx £304,441 | 57% | 8 of 8 |
| 4% | approx £5,990 | approx £13,460 | approx £56,927 | approx £582,178 | 74% | 8 of 8 |
| 5% - maximum | approx £9,470 | approx £23,280 | approx £100,137 | approx £1,022,239 | 84% | 6 of 8 |
How to read this table. These are medians across every 12-month start date in the record, sized the way the algo really sizes - honouring your broker's 0.01 minimum lot. You update your risk setting once a month, as your balance changes. That is the whole maintenance job.
Yes, the higher settings make dramatically more money. On these windows 5% turned £200 into roughly £9,470 against £3,443 at 3%. But read the last two columns before you reach for it. At 5% the average worst-case fall was 84%, a £200 account sat at £18 at its lowest, and two of the eight start dates never recovered - the account was finished before the good months arrived. That is a one in four chance of losing everything. 4% carried every single start date through and still made £5,990. The algo ships at 3%, and the setting is yours to change - but change it with your eyes open.
That is what the algo ships at, and it is the number we want every single person using this to stay at. Not because bigger settings do not make more money. They do, and we show you exactly how much below. It is because 3% is the highest setting where the drawdowns stay survivable. 4% also carried every start date we tested - but it did it through a 74% hole instead of a 57% one, and at 5% two of the eight start dates never came back at all. The gap between "survived" and "survivable" is where people quit.
Why higher risk kills you rather than just hurting you. Losing months are a documented part of this model. When you risk 3% and hit a bad run, the account shrinks and each following trade automatically gets smaller, so it bleeds slowly and lives. When you risk 10%, the same bad run takes the account down faster than the algo can size back out of it, and there is no balance left to recover with. The maths turns from a dip into a floor. Doubling your risk setting does not double your profit, it multiplies your chance of never getting there.
All figures are historical simulations on recorded tick data including real spreads, shown for education only. Median means half the tested start dates finished higher and half lower. The future can be worse than every window in this record, compounding deepens losing runs exactly as it multiplies winning ones, and no result here is promised or typical. Never trade money you cannot afford to lose, and start on demo.
Get these four wrong and the algo either cannot trade properly or behaves differently to everything shown on this page. They take about two minutes to set up.
Vantage run a deposit bonus that can add credit on top of what you put in. It is genuinely useful, but it is not extra money and we would rather tell you that now than have you find out later.
What it does: it is credit, and it counts toward your margin. That gives the account headroom to hold positions, which matters when several engines are in the market at the same time.
What it does not do: you cannot withdraw it, and it does not absorb your losses. Vantage deduct losses from your own deposited money first - the credit sits untouched. If you deposit £200 and take a £200 bonus, your account shows £400 but only £200 of it is yours, and losing that £200 means you have lost everything you put in while the screen still shows a balance.
Two more things: you have to opt in yourself in the Vantage client portal - it is not automatic. And if you withdraw any of your deposit or profit, a matching slice of the credit is removed at the same time.
How our algo treats it: your risk setting is always calculated on your own money, never on the bonus credit. So a 3% setting stays 3% of what you actually deposited whether or not you claim a bonus. That is deliberate - sizing off the inflated balance would quietly double your real risk.
This is the single biggest thing you can do that costs you no extra risk. Compounding works on whatever is in the account, so every pound you add early gets multiplied by everything that comes after it. Adding a modest amount monthly does more for your end balance than raising your risk setting - and unlike raising risk, it makes the ride smoother, because fresh cash cushions the losing runs instead of deepening them.
The same £200 account and the same trades, with £100 added every month.
| £200 start, 3% risk, 19 completed months | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| You add | Total you deposited | Finished at | Of which is profit | Deepest fall |
| Nothing | £200 | £13,626 | £13,426 | 79% |
| £50 a month | £1,100 | £42,011 | £40,911 | 66% |
| £100 a month | £2,000 | £72,143 | £70,143 | 60% |
Read the third column carefully. £100 a month for eighteen months is £1,800, on top of the £200 you started with of your own money going in - that part is not profit and we have separated it out so you can see exactly what the algo did and what you did. The point is not the headline number, it is that the same algo, same risk setting, same trades produced £70,143 of profit instead of £13,426, purely because there was more working capital in the account each month.
Notice the last column too: the untouched account fell 79% at its worst, the topped-up one 60%. Regular deposits genuinely soften drawdowns. Only ever add money you can afford to lose entirely - the drawdowns are still deep and none of this is guaranteed.
£200 is the minimum, and it now takes 96% of every trade the system produces. That was not always true. Your broker will not trade smaller than 0.01 lots, and the wide-stop gold setups used to be unreachable on a small balance - a £200 account caught barely half the system. The algo now steps up to the next lot size when rounding down would leave the trade too small, which closed almost all of that gap. From £400 upward it takes 100%.
A £200 account is not a cut-down account any more. It takes 96% of the trades and on the tested record it compounded at much the same rate as a £1,000 one. What a bigger balance actually buys you is steadier position sizing and smaller swings in cash terms - the percentage drawdowns are the same either way, and they are deep. Start where you can genuinely afford to, not where a table tells you to. Simulated figures, drawdowns included, no outcome guaranteed.
No subscription. No card. When you open your trading account through our partner link, the broker pays us a commission on your trading volume. That commission comes from the broker's own spread revenue and never adds a penny to your costs. You trade on the same account types and spreads as going to them directly.
Read the 20 minute setup guide first - see exactly what is involved before you sign up
Educational software, not investment advice or managed trading. Results are never guaranteed and losses are possible. Commission relationship fully disclosed above and in the terms.
Just over 3 minutes, no steps skipped - from downloading the installer to both algos running live. Subtitled, with the important bits highlighted.
Prefer to read? The 20 minute setup guide has all 17 steps in text.
No. You need a funded MT5 account with a broker that offers NAS100 and the ability to follow a 15 minute setup guide. The algo handles entries, stops, targets and breakeven automatically.
It will technically run on any MT5 broker offering NAS100 and XAUUSD, but free access requires an account opened through our partner link - that broker commission is what pays for the software. It was also built and tested on their exact feed and spreads.
£200 is the minimum and it now takes about 96% of every trade. The broker minimum lot size is 0.01, so on a small account a few trades come out below that and get skipped. At £200 you take about 96% of them, and from £400 upward you take all of them. Going above £400 does not unlock any further trades.
Yes, MT5 must be running during the London and New York sessions, or you can use any cheap MT5 VPS so it runs around the clock.
The partner broker pays us a commission based on your trading volume, out of their own spread revenue. You pay the same spreads as any direct customer, so there is no extra cost to you. That commission funds the algo, the updates and the support. The only requirement is that your account is opened through our partner link; keys that cannot be matched to a partner account are deactivated after the verification window.
This runs inside MetaTrader 5, which is Windows only. It will not work on a phone, a tablet, an iPad or a Mac. That is a MetaTrader limitation, not ours.
Twelve confirmations, each ticked individually. It is deliberately thorough: the people who read this and still join are the ones who last. Your answers are recorded with a timestamp and stored as evidence of informed consent.
Open the account (demo and live both available), then come back here with your account number from the welcome email.
Pick the Standard STP account type. It is spread only with no separate per-trade commission, and it is what every figure on this page was tested on. A Raw or ECN account charges commission on top and will return less than the published record. Also choose Vantage Global (not UK), MetaTrader 5, and leverage 1:500.
Your login details arrive by email the moment the account is approved: your login number (8 digits, needed below), your trader password (not the investor one, which cannot trade) and your server name. If you lose the email, all three are in the Vantage client portal under My Accounts.
Open partner account Code:This is your MT5 login number - usually 8 digits, something like 25884330. Vantage email it to you the moment your account is opened, and you can always find it in three places: the Vantage client portal under your account, the welcome email from Vantage, or inside MT5 itself - look at the Navigator panel on the left, under Accounts. It is the same number you type in when you log in to MT5. Not your email, and not your password.
If someone referred you, put their code here so they get credit. Leave it blank if you found us yourself.
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