Last night one account, one strategy, traded gold (MGC) automatically through the Asian session while I was asleep.
6 wins, 2 losses. +$1,024 by morning.
But that's not the part I want you to look at. Have a proper look at the calendar in the screenshot. October has 4 red days so far:
• Oct 2: −$197
• Oct 7: −$175
• Oct 9: −$8
• Oct 14: −$13
I'm not hiding them. Every one of them is baked into the numbers. Since Aug 21 this account is +$5,048 over 252 trades, at a 56% win rate, on my 1.5× risk setting. Even last night's run had a −$296 loser in it. Losing days are part of the picture. That's the honest version.
Why I went automated
This is where trading actually gets hard. You test a strategy for a few weeks. Then you get two bad sessions and you start changing things. Tighter stop here, bigger risk there, skipping the entries that feel wrong. Now you're not trading the strategy you tested anymore. You're trading in motion.
So I do all the thinking before a dollar goes live:
Optimise
Validate
Forward test
Only then, lock it in
After that, the software takes the entries and manages the trades to the rules. No second-guessing at 3am. I still choose the strategy, set the risk and monitor it. It just takes me out of the execution.
What's running it
This account runs on our V3 Golden Candle AutoTrader. You can get that one, our EMA AutoTrader and the brand-new Fair Value Gap AutoTrader (with FVG and inverse FVG entries). All 3 for $197. That's $66 a bot, less than one prop challenge.
Get all 3 here: https://whop.com/c/maxalgo-autotrader-ninjatrader/forumv3
