📢 Aurum Alpha V — Price Update

As previously announced, the price of Aurum Alpha V has been increased to $199.

There are 10 copies available at $199, but no later than the end of this week.
After that, the next price level will be $299.

With 8 integrated strategies inside the system, this equals roughly $25 per strategy — strong value for a multi-strategy Gold EA.

🔗 Product page: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/164599

📢 Aurum Alpha V — Promo

I’ve decided to extend the $199 price until Wednesday.

After that, the price will move to $299.

📈 The Golden Mean — NFLX Trend Captured

Friends,

I don’t talk much about The Golden Mean.

Not because it is weak — but because it is a long-term trend strategy, and such systems don’t need daily headlines.

Still, it definitely deserves a place in a diversified portfolio.

Recently, The Golden Mean captured a strong trend on NFLX:

✔️ +25% gain on the position
✔️ Stop Loss only 0.5%
✔️ Risk–Reward above 1:40

One trade was enough to compensate dozens of small controlled losses — this is the core mathematics of trend-following.

✔️ Small losses.
✔️ Rare but powerful trends.
✔️ Asymmetric payoff.

If you’d like to understand the full logic behind the strategy and see additional examples (Gold & Indices), I’ve published a detailed explanation on the product page:

👉 https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/163388/comments#comment_59291915

🚀 FX-Monitor — Launch Announcement

I’m glad to announce that FX-Monitor is now live, and registration is open.

FX-Monitor is an analytics platform for traders, designed to analyze trading performance.
We are currently in the open testing phase.

At this stage, you can connect up to 3 accounts and 1 portfolio.
The main goal now is to test performance, stability, and resource usage.

If you encounter any issues, please report them via the ticket system in your dashboard — your feedback is highly appreciated.

🔗 Register here:
https://fx-monitor.com

🚀 You can also support the development by using my products:
https://www.mql5.com/en/users/ivanvp/seller

📱 FX Monitor is now an app

No App Store. No installs. No updates.

Just open https://fx-monitor.com on your smartphone and install it in one tap.

Works like a native app on:
Android • iOS • Windows • macOS

👉 How to install on iPhone (Safari):

— Open https://fx-monitor.com in Safari
— Tap the Share (□↑) button
— Select “Add to Home Screen”
— Done — the app icon will appear on your home screen

And most importantly 👇

🔔 Real-time push notifications
Even when your terminal is offline.

You’ll receive:
— trade opened & closed
— profit / loss
— drawdown alerts
— account offline alerts

With flexible settings:
👉 symbol filters
👉 profit only / loss only
👉 minimum P&L threshold
👉 per-account configuration

Now your trading is always with you.
In your pocket. In the background. 24/7.

FX Monitor — control that never sleeps 🔥

💙 The project is free. You can support its development by purchasing Expert Advisors:
https://www.mql5.com/en/users/ivanvp/seller

🚀 New in FX Monitor — Backtest Analysis Module

We've just launched a full-featured backtest analyzer for MetaTrader 4 & MetaTrader 5 inside FX Monitor.
Upload your HTML report — and get an instant deep dive into your strategy:

📊 Dashboard
Balance curve, drawdown bars, Win Rate, Profit Factor, Sharpe, Recovery Factor, monthly breakdown, hour/weekday distribution, full trade list

🔍 Advanced Filters
Filter trades by time, day of week, date range, symbol or strategy — perfect for multi-mode EAs with several independent strategies running inside one test

⚖️ Lot Normalization
Balance-based or fixed lot — eliminates distortions from compounding and makes different backtests truly comparable

📁 Backtest Portfolios
Combine multiple strategies, set multipliers, run Monte Carlo (Bootstrap & Parametric) for the whole portfolio — with correlation matrix and probability of ruin

🤖 AI Agent
Ask the AI about your strategy's weak points, unprofitable periods, overfitting risks, Sharpe interpretation — or let it compose an optimal portfolio from your backtest pool, suggest weights, and create it in one click

Available now at https://fx-monitor.com — free for all users 👇

🚨 Your backtest said +40% a year. Your live account says… something else.

Every algo trader knows this gap. Few actually measure it.

🎯 Meet Strategy Analysis — the new module in FX Monitor that puts your backtest and your live account side by side, in real time.

📊 Equity curves overlaid on one chart
⚠️ Auto-alerts when win rate drops, PF degrades, or drawdown breaks the backtest limit
📈 Every metric paired: Forward vs Backtest — returns, win rate, profit factor, DD, Calmar, Recovery Factor
🔍 Breakdown by symbol, by comment tag, by month
💼 Works with single EAs or whole portfolios
⚙️ Multiplier support when deposit sizes don't match

Stop guessing whether your EA still works. Start seeing it.

✨ Available for Extended plan users
🤝 Extended plan free for EA customers: https://www.mql5.com/en/users/ivanvp/seller

👉 https://fx-monitor.com

#algotrading #MT4 #MT5 #forex

📊 Stock Edge Fusion — not hype. Real investing.

What makes it different?

This system is built for long-term investing in the US stock market.
No hype. No chasing trends.
Just a calm, structured approach based on how real investors think.

👉 “Set and forget” concept
👉 No promises of +100% per month
👉 Focus on stability, not emotions

At its core is Stock Trader Pro — a system published back in 2020… and still working today.
Even more: from 2021 to 2025 it ran without any optimizations or updates.
That alone says a lot about the robustness of the approach.

Through different market phases:
— Growth after COVID → capital expansion
— Inflation & market decline → sideways, no major losses
— Recovery → continued growth

While portfolios were bleeding, the system stayed stable.

And in today’s chaotic market?
Same story — no losses, just controlled stagnation.
Investors will understand how valuable that is.

💡 What is Stock Edge Fusion?

It’s a combination of two opposite strategies:

— Buy the Dip → via Stock Trader Pro (accumulating fear zones)
— Follow the Trend → via The Golden Mean (trading market euphoria)

Fear → accumulation
Euphoria → profit extraction

Two logics. Two behaviors.
With low correlation, meaning drawdowns don’t overlap.

🎯 Result?

A balanced system designed not for speculation…
but for capital growth and preservation.

I built Stock Edge Fusion primarily for my own long-term account.

If you treat trading as investing, not gambling —
this is exactly the kind of system you’re looking for.

🚀 Stock Edge Fusion backtests since 2010: https://fx-monitor.com/public/backtest-dashboard.php?id=146

🔗 Full article: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/175253/comments#comment_59680737

🚀 Friends, we’ve just rolled out a great update in FX Monitor — public profiles!

Now you can share your trading results with friends, clients, or the community 📊

Your profile displays:

• Public accounts
• Portfolios
• Backtests
• Backtest portfolios

👉 Don’t forget to enable public visibility in the settings for the items you want to share!

⚙️ How to enable: More → My Profile → Public Profile — choose what to display

🖼 Also a small but nice feature — you can now upload an avatar (just click on it)

💡 Especially useful for EA developers: now you can showcase your EA performance, portfolios, and easily share backtests all in one place (I know how painful that can be 😅)

🔥 Example profile: https://fx-monitor.com/profile/ivanvp

📊 Why quality trading analytics and monitoring actually matter

A lot of traders go for years without real monitoring — they just open the terminal and glance at the balance. It feels like enough. In reality, without systematic monitoring you lose sight of exactly the thing that determines whether you're profitable in the long run or not.

The fragmentation problem. Most algo traders don't have just one account — they have several: different brokers, different prop firms, different EAs running on each. Trying to keep it all in your head, or switching between terminals, is a guaranteed way to miss something important. While you're watching one terminal, another account may have already blown past its normal drawdown — and you find out too late.

Why this matters, and how FX Monitor solves it:

⚡️ Data updates every 15 seconds. Not "once an hour" — practically real time. A drawdown, a losing streak, unusual EA behavior — you see it almost the moment it happens, not once it's too late to act.

🗂 All your accounts in one place. No matter how many accounts you have — across different brokers, different prop firms — they're all gathered in a single dashboard. No need to log into ten different portals just to see the full picture.

📈 Aggregated analysis (Summary). A consolidated view across all your trading at once: total P&L, key metrics, overall dynamics — a single snapshot of your entire capital's state, instead of scattered numbers per account.

📁 Portfolio monitoring and analysis. Combine accounts into a portfolio with multipliers and view it as one whole: aggregated equity, combined drawdown, real risk. This is exactly how you check whether you're actually diversifying risk or just duplicating it.

🤖 Individual EA monitoring. If several EAs are running on one account, you see the result of each one separately (by Magic Number), instead of one blended mess of trades. You know exactly which EA is driving performance up — and which one is dragging it down.

And especially for those just starting out. Making sense of all these metrics on your own isn't easy, particularly for beginners. That's where the AI Agent and AI Trade Journal come in: the AI Agent analyzes your trading and explains in plain language exactly what's hurting your results and what to pay attention to, while the AI Trade Journal automatically breaks down every closed trade — no manual entry required. Essentially, you get a personal analyst turning raw numbers into clear takeaways.

Quality analytics isn't about pretty charts. It's about catching a problem in time, before it becomes a disaster — and spotting what's actually working in time to scale it.

A reminder: registering through my referral link gives you access to special plans — noticeably better value than the standard ones 😉

👉 https://fx-monitor.com/?ref=ivanvp (best to copy the link and open it in a new tab). Or enter the partner code at registration: ivanvp

#forex #expertadvisor #expert_advisor #ea #algotrading #metatrader4 #metatrader5

🚀 Aurum Alpha V 2.0 — a major update

Meet the new version of Aurum Alpha V — fully overhauled.

What changed:

— Every strategy in the system has been modernized
— Strategy #3 has been fully removed from the system — it didn't hold up well enough over the long run
— Strategies #6 and #7 replaced with new breakout logic
— SL, TP, and Trailing Stop logic reworked across every strategy in the system

As a result, the system went from 9 strategies down to a tighter, more refined 8, each one revised and validated for stable results on history going back to 2010.

Aurum Alpha V remains what it was built to be: an 8-in-1 multi-strategy system for Gold (XAUUSD), no martingale, no grid — a structured approach to trend, momentum, and breakout, with independent risk control per strategy.

👉 https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/164599

🐕 Only Wif — What if it's Forever Free?

Tired of paying thousands for EAs that promise the moon and quietly blow your account three weeks later?
Let's try something different. Only Wif is free. Forever. No trial, no "unlock the real version," no upsell.

What it is:

A plug-and-play breakout Expert Advisor for Gold (XAUUSD). It watches key price levels, sits patiently on both sides of the market with pending stop orders, and lets the breakout come to it. When a level breaks, it's already positioned — and every position walks in wearing a stop-loss.

No martingale. No grid. No hedging spiral that dies on the one candle you weren't watching. No 400-parameter config screen that needs a PhD to read.

Why you might actually like it

✅ Truly plug-and-play — strategy pre-tuned and locked inside, no set-file hunting.
✅ Trades Gold, attaches to any timeframe.
✅ Built-in trade management: SL/TP, break-even, trailing stop.
✅ Flexible money management + optional prop-firm risk module and news filter.
📊 Backtested on history since 2010.

🔗 Backtests: https://fx-monitor.com/public/backtest-dashboard.php?id=267
🔗 Product page: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/184705

Every trade carries a stop-loss. As with any system, past behavior doesn't guarantee future results — test on demo first and use risk settings you're comfortable with.

No emotions. No revenge trades. No "just one more lot." Just vibes. And math.

What if you just tried it? 🚀

#forex #expert_advisor #metatrader5

🤔 What FX Monitor is and how it works

I'm genuinely surprised that many people still don't fully understand what FX Monitor is and how to use it. The funniest part — some register and wait for their trading accounts to "sync with the broker on their own"… by email 😄 We've even had tickets: "I created an account with the same email as my IC Markets one, but the account never showed up."

Let's clear this up once and for all.

FX Monitor is a service for monitoring your trading. You track all of your trading accounts online, in one place — no matter how many brokers and prop firms you trade with.

How does the data get in? No "syncing by email" To collect data, you install our EA collector in your MT4/MT5 terminal — this Expert Advisor sends data from your terminal to our servers. Set it up once, the account appears in your dashboard, and from there everything runs automatically.

And that's where the interesting part begins:

📊 Deep analytics — dozens of metrics for a detailed breakdown of your trading: profit factor, Sharpe, Sortino, drawdowns, win rate, monthly returns and much more

🤖 AI Agent — especially useful for beginners: it points out exactly what's hurting your trading, which patterns are damaging your results, and what to pay attention to

📖 AI Trade Journal — a journal that fills itself in: every trade is automatically analyzed by AI, with no manual entry

🤖 Expert Advisors monitoring — track the performance of each of your EAs separately. If several EAs run on one account, just select specific Magic Numbers (or across a group of accounts) and follow each advisor individually

📁 Portfolios — combine several accounts into a single portfolio with multipliers and analyze them as one: total equity, aggregate drawdown, combined result. Handy if you trade across multiple accounts or manage capital across several of them

🔍 Comparative Analysis — compare accounts, portfolios, backtests and EAs side by side, on a single screen

🧩 Strategies — combine live monitoring with an EA's backtest and see where real trading deviates from what was expected

📈 Deep backtest analysis — upload backtest HTML reports from MT4/MT5 and run a full breakdown: equity and drawdown curves, profit factor, Z-score, Sharpe, stagnation periods, Monte Carlo simulation for robustness, portfolios of multiple backtests, and a weight optimizer. For the smoothest workflow, we built FX Monitor Studio — a free desktop application fully integrated with the web version: run the MT5 tester right from the app, and the results sync with your account and are available on any device

🚀 Prop Firm Vertical — a complete system for passing prop challenges: real-time rule monitoring, probability of passing, firm matching for your trading style

In short: install the EA collector → see all your trading in one place → analyze it at a level that used to be available only to professionals.

Sign up at https://fx-monitor.com. If anything's unclear, you can always reach out to support and we'll help 🤝

👉 https://fx-monitor.com/?ref=ivanvp (best to copy the link and open it in a new tab). Or enter the partner code at registration: ivanvp

#forex #expert_advisors #metatrader4 #metatrader5

🐕 WIF — What If?

What if you stopped second-guessing and let the doge handle it?

WIF is a multi-strategy breakout EA for Gold (XAUUSD). Seven independent strategies on one chart — each with its own levels, its own timeframe, its own pending orders.

⚡️ What if gold pumps right now? Right now? WIF is already positioned on both sides, waiting.

🚫 What WIF is not

❌ Not an AI system. No neural networks, no LSTM, no "deep learning engine." If a robot needs an ML buzzword to sound credible, ask what it's covering for. This is price levels, pending orders, and arithmetic.
❌ No martingale. A loss is a loss. WIF takes it and moves on. No doubling down to "recover."
❌ No grid. No averaging into a falling market, no hedging spirals.

Every position opens with a real stop-loss.

📊 About the testing — straight up

🔧 Optimized on data from 2022
📈 Backtested on history from 2008 on Dukascopy tick data — that's 14 years outside the optimization window

🔗 Backtests: https://fx-monitor.com/public/backtest-dashboard.php?id=303
📡 Live signal ($8,000): https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/2383601

🎛 Pick your risk — that's the whole setup

🟢 Ultra Conservative — 4, 7
🔵 Conservative — 2, 5, 6, 7
🟡 Moderate — 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
⚙️ Manual — flip each one on or off yourself

💰 10 copies at $99 — price goes up after that.

🎁 Every purchase includes lifetime Extended Access to FX Monitor (details): advanced analytics and monitoring for your MT4/MT5 accounts. Forever.

📌 XAUUSD · any timeframe (H1 for a clean chart) · deposit from $750 · Raw / ECN preferred
🔗 Product page: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/177913

Every trade carries a stop-loss. More strategies means more concurrent exposure — start with a conservative profile. Past behavior does not guarantee future results — demo first
.
No emotions. No revenge trades. Just vibes. And math.

What if you just tried it? 🚀

🐕 Why I released WIF right now

Friends, let me explain the logic behind this launch.

The usual playbook for EA developers goes like this: wait several months for a nice-looking curve to form on the signal, then publish the product. And if a drawdown happens along the way — just restart the signal and wait again until the picture looks perfect.

I did it differently. I published the system essentially right away, together with the signal — even though there was a small drawdown of a few percent at the moment of release. I didn't wait for a pretty chart.

How much do I believe in this system? Look at the signal balance — $8,000. That's not a token demo account for show.

And the key methodological point: optimization was done from 2022, while testing goes back to 2008. The system has been validated on history more than 4x longer than the optimization window. That points to a low probability of overfitting and a high probability that the behavior is genuinely robust, rather than curve-fitted to one convenient stretch of market.

In my view, this kind of launch is more honest than most. Let the curve be live, not painted.

🔗 Backtests: https://fx-monitor.com/public/backtest-dashboard.php?id=303
📡 Live signal ($8,000): https://www.mql5.com/en/signals/2383601

🛒 https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/177913

💰 10 copies at $99 — price goes up after that.

P.S. And don't forget: everyone who buys WIF gets a Lifetime Extended plan on FX Monitor 🎁

⚠️ The main pain of prop traders — bans for copy trading

Account closed, profits confiscated, and sometimes your name ends up on the lists firms share with each other. 🤷‍♂️ And it usually happens with zero bad intent: you bought an EA on a marketplace and had no way of knowing the same EA runs on two hundred other accounts at your firm. The firm sees a cluster of identical accounts and deals with it as a whole.

🔍 We built a new section in the prop firm vertical — Copy Trading Risk. The firm sees only its own accounts, the trader sees nothing at all, and we see both at once. It computes the same metric the firm computes and shows it before the ban, not after.

📊 Match share against other accounts at your firm · 👥 detection of two indistinguishable accounts among your own · 🔥 how crowded your EA actually is · 🎯 a trade-by-trade comparison calculator across four axes

🧮 And the key part: a raw "68% match" means nothing if both accounts trade the London gold open. So we compute the randomness correction and show how much of that number actually stands out from chance.

🔒 The other party's identity is never revealed. Only anonymised trading data enters the calculation.

Disclaimer: this is not a 100% guarantee. We measure one line out of several — firms also look at IP, device fingerprint, KYC and payment method. Only FX Monitor users' accounts are compared, so "zero matches" means "nobody in our population", not "you're clean". Accuracy will keep improving as more trading accounts get connected to FX Monitor.

👉 Full breakdown of the section — read the article:
https://www.mql5.com/en/blogs/post/773421

A reminder: registering through my referral link gives you access to special plans — noticeably better value than the standard ones 😉

👉 https://fx-monitor.com/?ref=ivanvp (or enter the partner code at registration: ivanvp)

🎁 The FX Monitor Extended plan for buyers of my EAs — plus something new

I've noticed an interesting pattern: some users buy an EA mainly for the bonus Extended plan, while others want both a solid EA and access to FX Monitor. Both make sense.

So I've decided to launch Extended Pro — a plan for buyers of Stock Trader Pro, Stock Edge Fusion, and Aurum Alpha V.

If you've purchased any of my Expert Advisors on the MQL5 Market, the Extended plan on FX Monitor is available to you again.

👉 https://fx-monitor.com

🔥🔥🔥 WIF: https://www.mql5.com/en/market/product/177913

💰 7 copies at $99 — price goes up after that

🛒 All products: https://www.mql5.com/en/users/ivanvp/seller

Want more? Just reach out to me! 🤝

🚀 Struggling to pass your prop firm challenge? FX Monitor can help — Prop Firm Vertical, a module built specifically for traders working with prop firms. Available on the Extended Pro plan.