Risk disclosure

Risk disclosure

Trading with Expert Advisors can lose money quickly, including money you did not plan to risk. Read this before using any EA or relying on any result shown on this site.

Leveraged products

Forex, CFDs, metals such as gold, and crypto CFDs are usually traded on margin. Leverage magnifies losses as well as gains. A small price move against a position can cost more than the margin put up, and on some accounts more than the account balance.

Automated trading

• An EA follows its rules regardless of news, holidays, thin markets or sudden volatility.
• Code can contain errors. Passing MQL5 Market validation or a code audit shows that an EA runs; it does not show that it makes money.
• Losses can come from your setup rather than the strategy: a disconnected terminal, a VPS outage, wrong inputs, the wrong symbol name or a broker changing contract specifications.
• Grid, martingale and averaging systems can show smooth results for long periods and then lose a large part of the account in a single move.

What backtests cannot show

• A backtest replays fixed rules on past prices from one broker's data. Different brokers' data gives different results, as the record shows.
• Strategy Tester results depend on the modelling method, history quality, and the spread and commission settings used. Many report images on this site do not state all of these.
• Rules tuned until they look good on past data often fail on new data. This is called overfitting.
• Past results, simulated or real, do not predict future results.

Live execution is different

In live trading, orders can fill at worse prices (slippage), spreads widen around news and market opens, orders can be rejected or requoted, and execution speed varies by broker, server and connection. A strategy that is barely profitable in a backtest can lose money once these costs are real.

Short forward tests

A forward test of one day or one week shows how an EA behaved in that period only. It is far too short to judge whether a strategy has an edge.

Not advice

Everything on this site is shared for research and education. It is not investment, financial, legal or tax advice, and it does not take your situation into account. YV Orbit is not a regulated financial firm.

Local rules

In some countries, including India, residents may be restricted from trading forex or CFDs with overseas brokers. Check the rules that apply where you live before opening an account.

Before you use any EA

• Test it on a demo account with your own broker first, for long enough to see different market conditions.
• Use only money you can afford to lose.
• Check the EA's inputs, lot size and maximum risk before you attach it to a live chart.

Last updated 24 October 2026