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A race between Expert Advisors on demo accounts. Everyone starts on the same day with the same balance: the highest return at the end wins.
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Three moments, the same for everyone.
Checked on every EA, the same way for everyone. Read them before you start.
The drawdown is measured on the starting balance of , not from the peak. If the equity (open losses included) falls below (−%), even for a moment, or the account has a stop out, the EA is out of the race.
At the end of the tournament, the best day must be less than % of the total profit. A day is a broker day; the profit is the result of the closed trades (commissions and swaps included), and losing days count too.
An EA that breaks the rule stays in the ranking but cannot win the prize: the prize goes to the first EA that respects it. During the race it is only a warning, and you see your percentage live in the ranking.
Choose any lot, on any instrument. On each instrument, the lot of your first trade becomes your initial lot for the whole tournament: every new trade, or the first trade of each sequence for grid/martingale EAs, must use that same lot. The next levels of a grid or martingale may grow.
A sequence that starts with another lot puts the EA under review.
Gold is not the only instrument you can trade. Each one has its own lot, so every EA competes on equal terms.
A fixed lot does not weigh the same everywhere: on gold lots move about $ a day, on EURUSD the same lot moves less than a tenth of that. The table gives, for each instrument, the lot that moves the same dollars in an average day (ATR 14, D1) as lots of gold. Use it as the fixed lot of your EA, or as the first lot of each sequence for grid/martingale EAs.
Indices, oil and crypto: the lot is for a contract of 1 unit per lot (oil 1,000 barrels). If your broker uses another contract size, the check scales the lot by itself (e.g. NAS100 with 10 $ per point: 0.02 instead of 0.20). Broker names and suffixes are recognised (GOLD, USTEC, US100, EURUSD.r, EURUSDm…). Instruments not in the table: lots. Values updated on ; volatility changes, so the table is reviewed before every tournament.
The same table, with all the rules and examples, is in the rules PDF.
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In MetaTrader 5, at the broker you like. Exactly these values:
Use this account only for your EA, from now to the end: no other EA, no manual trades, no deposits or withdrawals. The EA stays the same to the end: same version, same settings.
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Our reporter sends the results of the tournament account. Nothing to change in your EA.
The .set file is the key of your EA: never share it.
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