Pass your prop‑firm challenge on gold, measured across five market regimes.

Yes. Every report is the actual MetaTrader Strategy Tester output for a $100,000 account trading XAUUSD. FTMO and Eightcap were run on their own servers in all five regimes. FundedNext and Blueberry were run on their own servers for 2025 and 2026 and on a Capital Point proxy feed for 2023 and 2024, because their history starts in December 2024. The5ers and Funded Trading Plus expose no demo server, so every one of their runs is on the FTMO feed as a labelled proxy. All 48 reports ship in your download, so you can open the same files and read every trade in them. They are backtests on past data, not a promise of future results.

Because a gold EA fitted to one year is the easiest thing in the world to sell and the hardest to keep. Every shipped preset was run, unchanged, through the 2026 trend, the choppy second half of 2025, the first half of 2025, the slow year 2024 and 2023, which was never used to choose a single setting and acts as the holdout. A curve-fitted system passes one window and falls apart in the others. This one reached target on every firm in four of the five windows, and the page shows the fifth.

No. At the shipped Standard risk it reached target on every firm in 2026, in the first half of 2025, in 2024 and in 2023, and in the 2025 chop two of the six reached target and the other four finished positive but short of it. Speed is the other honest number: 2026 took 37 to 97 days on Standard, while 2023 took 202 to 286. Nothing breached a floor in any of the thirty runs, which is the claim this product actually makes.

Only in a trending gold market, and the page does not pretend otherwise. The Fast tier reached its first-phase target in 29 to 41 days across the six firms in the 2026 window, and in 108 to 177 days where it reached it in the 2025 chop. In 2023-type gold the second tactic idles by design and the Standard engine takes months. Both tiers are on the regimes table so you can see what the market you are in is likely to give you.

Neither firm offers a demo server, and their live accounts cannot be opened without buying a challenge, so their editions were laddered on the FTMO feed, the harshest gold data we hold, with every caption saying so. Their commissions cannot be modelled by a tester either, so they were priced from the volume actually traded: The5ers at about $4 per lot costs roughly 0.6 percent of the profit on a Standard run to target and 2.4 percent on a Fast run; Funded Trading Plus at about $7 per lot costs roughly 2.0 percent and 4.5 percent. Both editions re-run every table on the firm's own feed with one script once an account exists.

Neither, and the arbiter is written so that they cannot become one. The Standard tier holds one position. The Fast tier holds at most two, from two different tactics, each with its own hard stop, never in opposite directions, never adding to a position that is losing, and never more than 2 percent of equity at risk in total. Firms define a grid as adding to a loser and a hedge as holding both directions; this engine refuses both, and the Eightcap and The5ers editions run single-direction by default because those firms ban opposing positions outright.

No. Lot size is a fixed percentage of equity at each entry, and an anti-martingale ratchet stops any size increase after a losing trade, which is how Blueberry and several other firms define martingale. Where a rung breached in testing it was because the market moved, not because the EA doubled down, and that rung was not shipped.

It should not, because each edition carries the rule its firm actually has. FTMO's 1-Step preset enforces the best-day consistency rule as a pass gate, the minimum trading days are counted before the target is allowed to latch, entries are capped at 20 a day with a 60-second minimum hold, and the engine works the 15-minute chart: across the reports on this page the average hold runs from 2h 17m to 7h 57m. Of the 22108 position closes in all 48 reports, 125 were inside a minute, well under one percent, against the half-of-all-trades threshold some firms use to flag hyperactivity.

That depends on what your firm requires, and each preset already matches its programme. Where the firm restricts news on that account type the preset ships with the news filter on and blocks a window either side of high-impact releases. Every Funded Trading Plus preset flattens before the Friday close, the cautious reading of that firm's weekend rule, and one input switches it off if your dashboard permits weekend holding.

FTMO, Blueberry, The5ers, Funded Trading Plus and Eightcap allow EAs on MetaTrader at no extra charge. FundedNext allows them but sells a paid EA add-on on top of the challenge, and does not permit EAs on its Free Trial or Competition accounts. Firms revise these terms, so confirm on your dashboard before you buy the challenge.

Start with Standard unless you have read the regimes table and accept two concurrent positions. Standard is the engine that was profitable in all five regimes and it never breached at its shipped rung. Fast is the same engine plus a 1-minute tactic that only wakes up when gold's hourly range is at least 800 points, so in a quiet year it behaves like Standard and in a trending year it is the 30-day tier. The funded presets are Fast at 0.50 percent on most firms because at that risk the floor held for the whole 2023 to 2026 span.

Open your firm's folder, pick the folder for your tier, and load the file that matches your programme, phase and account size. A START-HERE text file in every edition names the exact file for each programme and size, and the PDF manual walks through it. Risk, the daily-loss basis, the reset clock and the floor are already set for that programme. When you move to phase two, load the phase-two preset so the guard re-anchors to the new balance.

MT5 editions for all six firms, plus MT4 for FundedNext, FTMO and Blueberry. The5ers, Funded Trading Plus and Eightcap no longer offer MT4 on prop accounts, so those are MT5 only. The MT4 ports are the same engine written in MQL4 and they ship at 0.50 percent risk, because on MetaTrader 4 gold data every higher rung breached the 2025 chop, and they were validated on two regimes rather than five. Use MT4 only if your account offers no MT5 option.

Treat it as required rather than optional. The EA places a hard stop on every trade and manages it as the market moves, so it has to stay connected. A home computer that sleeps, restarts for an update or drops its connection cannot manage an open position.

Each edition is built for the symbol its firm actually quotes, so the reports above trade XAUUSD and XAUUSD.i. Attach the EA to whichever XAUUSD chart your terminal shows, set it to the M15 timeframe, and it reads the other timeframes itself. If your firm renames the symbol, email support and I will tell you the one setting to change.

Switch to the funded preset for that firm, which every edition includes. Those run at 0.50 percent, the FundedNext Instant one at 0.35, because on a funded account the job changes from hitting a target to not losing the account, and the funded runs on this page held their floor from January 2023 to August 2026. Where a firm restricts news or weekend holding on funded accounts, the funded presets turn those filters on for you.

They are named, not hidden. The ceiling table above shows the rung at which each firm's flagship phase first breached a floor, and the list under it names every programme that was tested and not shipped, with the reason. A preset that cannot pass is worse than no preset, so a 1-Step or trailing-floor programme that breached at every rung simply has no file in the download.

It happens, and it is the reason this is six separate editions rather than one EA with a dropdown. When a firm changes a daily-loss basis, a reset time or a floor rule, the affected edition is rebuilt, re-laddered and the new build goes onto the same download page you were given, at no extra charge.

No. The download holds compiled EAs, the presets, the manuals, the five-regime backtest report for each edition and the 48 tester reports. If you need source for a custom build, that is a separate conversation.

Because this is an instant digital download of compiled software, it is sold as final. That is precisely why 48 full tester reports across five regimes are on this page instead of a highlight reel, and why the misses are on it too. If you are unsure which edition fits your account, email [email protected] before you buy and I will tell you honestly, including if the answer is that it is not a match.