Research · MetaTrader 5

18 Optimised MT5 Strategies, Tested and Compared

28 pair-and-timeframe combinations were searched.
18 survived and 10 were thrown away.
This is every one of them, with the numbers, the ranking and the risks.

+$31,962

Net profit, all 18 presets

+$8,182

Out-of-sample (25.6% of total)

31,707

Total trades

82.0%

Average win rate

6.15

Best profit factor

$76

Smallest account needed

FxMath Elite Pro - 18 optimised MetaTrader 5 strategies — All 18 presets: +$31,962 net, 31,707 trades, best profit factor 6.15.

Every figure below is read from the same data file the live dashboard
publishes. The reports and the numbers here cannot drift apart, because there
is only one source.

The rule that decides what ships

A preset was kept only if the model was robust in both halves of a
walk-forward split AND the full-period net profit is
positive. It is a conjunction, and both halves matter.

The rule exists to close one specific trap:
XAUUSD on H8 and H12 made money over their whole file and are still
rejected, because the 8-hour version lost 16.84% on the part the
optimiser never saw. Profit over the full period is not the test. Profit on
the slice the optimiser never touched is.

The shipping rule: robust in both walk-forward halves and positive overall — Both conditions must hold. A preset that lost out of sample ships nothing.

How the strategy actually trades

An ensemble of 20 decision trees scores every bar from a
12-bar context window and a 15-bar back-look.
If the score clears the threshold it opens 0.01 lots and
sets a small basket take-profit.
If price moves against it, the EA adds a level every grid distance
— usually 5 to 8 levels — averaging the
entry.
The whole basket closes together. Most exits are a small win; almost
none are a loss.

How the EA trades: a no-stop grid mean-reverter with 5-8 levels — A no-stop grid mean-reverter: many small wins, very few losses, and an unbounded tail.

This is the honest cost of that profile.
Average win rate is 82.0%, and
14 of the 18 presets have no stop loss at
all — the optimiser found a stop unprofitable on this sample, so
it did not select one. A grid with no hard stop and 93–100% exposure keeps
accumulating positions into a sustained trend. The low drawdowns are a property
of a mean-reverting sample, not a structural safety feature.

All 18 presets, honestly ranked

Sorted by profit per dollar of drawdown, which is the ranking that decides
whether an account survives — not the one that looks best in a headline.
A preset that doubles an account while risking ninety percent of it is not
better than one that adds twenty percent while risking two.

#	Symbol	TF	Net	Return	Max DD	PF	Trades	Win %	OOS
1	EURUSD	M30	+$2,177	21.77%	2.72%	5.58	1,549	86.4%	+$710
2	EURUSD	M15	+$1,632	16.32%	2.13%	3.06	1,057	81.4%	+$310
3	USDCHF	H2	+$276	2.76%	0.37%	1.91	95	77.9%	+$36
4	EURUSD	H1	+$1,942	19.42%	2.65%	5.82	979	86.7%	+$362
5	GBPUSD	H2	+$1,429	14.29%	2.20%	6.15	335	89.9%	+$316
6	GBPUSD	M15	+$2,570	25.70%	4.13%	3.63	4,094	80.5%	+$692
7	USDCHF	M30	+$1,839	18.39%	2.96%	4.14	1,466	85.4%	+$717
8	EURUSD	H2	+$1,062	10.62%	1.80%	4.75	605	81.3%	+$160
9	USDCAD	H1	+$673	6.73%	1.33%	2.64	632	86.6%	+$154
10	GBPUSD	H1	+$1,231	12.31%	2.51%	4.89	377	90.2%	+$417
11	XAUUSD	H2	+$5,943	59.43%	12.92%	2.43	969	91.3%	+$1,769
12	USDCHF	H1	+$1,615	16.15%	3.54%	4.38	1,425	81.6%	+$650
13	GBPUSD	M30	+$1,876	18.76%	4.95%	3.71	1,443	83.2%	+$636
14	USDCHF	M15	+$1,758	17.58%	5.16%	1.93	8,713	69.2%	+$593
15	USDCAD	M15	+$228	2.28%	0.73%	1.12	3,309	67.1%	+$45
16	USDCAD	M30	+$271	2.71%	1.11%	1.12	3,641	66.9%	+$17
17	XAUUSD	H6	+$3,666	36.66%	28.82%	1.29	677	84.5%	+$78
18	XAUUSD	H1	+$1,774	17.74%	16.94%	1.33	341	85.6%	+$522

All 18 shipped presets ranked by profit per dollar of drawdown — All 18 shipped presets with their full-period and out-of-sample figures.

The top of that table is EURUSD M30, which
returns 21.77% against a maximum drawdown of 2.72% —
8.00 dollars of return per dollar of drawdown. The highest profit
factor in the library is GBPUSD H2 at
6.15, and the smallest account that can carry any preset is
$76 for
USDCHF H2.

The leaderboard

#	Preset	TF	Return	Max DD	Return/DD	PF
1	EURUSD	M30	21.77%	2.72%	8.00	5.58
2	EURUSD	M15	16.32%	2.13%	7.67	3.06
3	USDCHF	H2	2.76%	0.37%	7.38	1.91
4	EURUSD	H1	19.42%	2.65%	7.34	5.82
5	GBPUSD	H2	14.29%	2.20%	6.50	6.15
6	GBPUSD	M15	25.70%	4.13%	6.23	3.63
7	USDCHF	M30	18.39%	2.96%	6.22	4.14
8	EURUSD	H2	10.62%	1.80%	5.91	4.75

Three comparisons that matter more than the table

1. By timeframe

TF	Shipped	Net	OOS	Trades	Best PF	Avg DD
M15	4 of 5	+$6,188	+$1,639	17,173	3.63	3.03%
M30	4 of 5	+$6,163	+$2,080	8,099	5.58	2.93%
H1	5 of 5	+$7,235	+$2,104	3,754	5.82	5.40%
H2	4 of 5	+$8,710	+$2,282	2,004	6.15	4.32%
H6	1 of 5	+$3,666	+$78	677	1.29	28.82%

M15 runs the most decisions but earns the least per trade.
H2 makes the most money on the fewest trades — the
highest-quality entries in the library. H6 barely survives: it
is the only coarse-timeframe preset that held up, and its out-of-sample number
is thin enough that it should be read as “not disproven”, not
“proven”.

Comparison by timeframe: M15, M30, H1, H2 and H6 — M15 for frequency, H2 for quality, H6 on probation.

2. By symbol

Symbol	Shipped	Timeframes	Net	OOS	Trades	Avg PF	Avg DD	Stop?
EURUSD	4 presets	M30 M15 H1 H2	+$6,812	+$1,542	4,190	4.80	2.32%	no
GBPUSD	4 presets	H2 M15 H1 M30	+$7,107	+$2,060	6,249	4.59	3.45%	no
USDCHF	4 presets	H2 M30 H1 M15	+$5,488	+$1,996	11,699	3.09	3.01%	yes
USDCAD	3 presets	H1 M15 M30	+$1,172	+$216	7,582	1.63	1.06%	yes
XAUUSD	3 presets	H2 H6 H1	+$11,382	+$2,368	1,987	1.68	19.56%	yes

Gold is a different sport. The XAUUSD presets produce the
largest absolute profit in the library and are also the only ones with a real
stop loss — which is exactly why their drawdowns are three to twenty times
larger. Their profit factor is not comparable to the FX
presets’. A modest profit factor on a grid with no stop is a different animal
from a high one with a stop.

Comparison by symbol: EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCHF, USDCAD and XAUUSD — Gold: the biggest profit, the biggest drawdown, and the only real stop losses.

3. Do they actually diversify?

Mean daily-return correlation across all 153 preset pairs is
+0.198. But the interesting number is the
highest cell: EURUSD H1 and EURUSD H2 correlate at
+0.82. That is not two ideas, it is one position
resampled onto a different clock. The gold presets, by contrast, sit near zero
against everything else — those are the genuinely independent strategies
in this book.

What the account actually has to hold

Preset	TF	Min. balance	Worst float
USDCHF	H2	$76	-$34
USDCAD	M15	$150	-$12
USDCAD	M30	$229	-$26
USDCAD	H1	$280	-$156
EURUSD	H2	$390	-$230
EURUSD	M15	$460	-$241
GBPUSD	H2	$461	-$249
GBPUSD	H1	$514	-$266
EURUSD	M30	$610	-$322
EURUSD	H1	$610	-$360
USDCHF	M30	$649	-$348
USDCHF	H1	$720	-$376
GBPUSD	M15	$873	-$752
USDCHF	M15	$1,055	-$604
GBPUSD	M30	$1,058	-$649
XAUUSD	H2	$3,271	-$1,707
XAUUSD	H1	$3,871	-$520
XAUUSD	H6	$11,067	-$5,808

Every preset is bound by its drawdown budget — the
worst backtest drawdown doubled — never by margin. The whole
USDCHF H2 preset carries 0.24 lots at peak, about
fifty-seven dollars of margin at 1:500. Opening the trade was never the problem.
Sitting through the float is.

Minimum account balance and worst floating loss per preset — Smallest account $76; largest $11,067.

Summing those minimums assumes the drawdowns never overlap,
which the correlation table above shows is often false. Treat
$26,344 as a floor, not a plan.

What could go wrong

The risks, stated plainly: no stop loss on 14 of 18 presets — The risks, stated before you ask.

14 of 18 presets have no stop loss.
The optimiser found one unprofitable on this sample, so it did not select
one. Adding one is a risk decision that will lower the returns shown.
The tail is unbounded. A grid with no stop and
93–100% exposure accumulates into a sustained trend.
Long losing streaks happen. GBPUSD M15 ran
24 consecutive losing trades and still
finished profitable. A smaller account would not have reached the
recovery.
Out-of-sample retention is 25.60%. That is
normal walk-forward decay, but it means the headline
+$31,962 should be read as roughly a quarter of it
persisting forward.
Same pair, different timeframe is not diversification.
EURUSD H1 and H2 correlate at +0.82.

This is research output, not investment advice.
Past performance does not guarantee future results. Trading forex and metals on
margin carries a high level of risk and can result in the loss of all invested
capital. Trade responsibly.

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so several can run on one account without managing each other’s positions.
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Every report — equity curve, drawdown, monthly profit, the in-sample
and out-of-sample split, the full input list and the trade log — is
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FxMath Elite Pro – 18 Optimised MT5 Strategies Tested and Compared (Every One Explained)

18 Optimised MT5 Strategies, Tested and Compared

The rule that decides what ships

How the strategy actually trades