SageGrid Balanced
$1,000 on 31 Oct 2025 became $10,470.01 by 30 Oct 2026 in the MT5 Strategy Tester, on the broker’s real ticks. Trades more often and adds a trailing exit that locks in profit. The trade replayed above is one of its grids.
Balance and lowest equity
- Balance at the end of each day
- Lowest equity that day, floating P&L included
How it was tested
The conditions below are printed at the top of the MT5 report, so anyone with MetaTrader 5 can see how it was run.
- Tester
- MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester, every tick based on real ticks
- Broker server
- STARTRADERFinancial-Live (Build 6230)
- Symbol
- XAUUSD.c (gold) on the 1-minute chart
- Period
- 31 Oct 2025 to 31 Oct 2026
- Price data
- 87,821,455 ticks, 100% real ticks
- Spread
- The broker’s own, as recorded on every tick
- Order delay
- 150 ms on every order
- Starting balance
- $1,000, leverage 1:500
- Settings
- SageGrid Balanced, kill switch at 45%
- Slower fills
- Re-run with a 500 ms delay on every order: the year ended at $10,863.08 (+986%), worst fall 32.12%
The results
Profit
| Net profit | +$9,470.01 |
|---|---|
| Return on $1,000 | +947% |
| Final balance | $10,470.01 |
| Gross profit | $20,872.39 |
| Gross loss | −$11,402.38 |
| Profit factor | 1.83 |
| Average profit per trade | $11.69 |
| Recovery factor | 3.73 |
| Sharpe ratio | 4.11 |
Risk
| Worst fall, floating P&L included | 32.22% |
|---|---|
| … in dollars | −$2,536.88 |
| Worst fall, closed trades only | 27.18% |
| … in dollars | −$2,127.44 |
| Biggest floating loss on one grid | −10.69% |
| … in dollars, the largest | −$862.07 |
| Worst day, 1 Sep 2026 | −$781.65 |
| Worst day in %, 20 Apr 2026 | −10.63% |
| Longest losing streak | 6 trades, −$1,496.86 |
| Losing months | 2 of 12 |
| Margin stop-outs | 0 |
| Kill switch (45%) triggered | Never |
Trades
| Trades | 810 |
|---|---|
| Winning trades | 539 (66.54%) |
| Buys, share won | 433 (66.05%) |
| Sells, share won | 377 (67.11%) |
| Largest win | $493.18 |
| Largest loss | −$414.90 |
| Average win / loss | $38.72 / −$42.08 |
| Average time in a trade | 8 h 15 min |
| Grids closed in profit | 537 of 556 |
| Most positions in one grid | 3 |
From the MT5 report, except four figures from the robot’s own log of the same run: the biggest floating loss on one grid, the kill switch, grids closed in profit and most positions in one grid. Floating loss in % is measured against the balance when that grid started; worst days against the balance at the start of the day. Run on 4 Nov 2026 with the broker’s overnight swap rates of that day.
The last six months
A separate run that starts fresh with $1,000 on 1 May 2026, the same six months as the live account.
- Final balance
- $2,605.68 (+161%)
- Worst fall, floating P&L included
- 32.09%
- Worst fall, closed trades only
- 27.16%
- Profit factor
- 1.82
- Trades
- 408
- Kill switch triggered
- Never
- Slower fills
- With a 500 ms delay: $2,696.55 (+170%), worst fall 32.43%
- MT5 report
- The six-month report
Month by month
Change in balance each month. 2 of 12 months lost money. November includes the test’s first day, 31 Oct 2025.
The full MT5 report
MetaTrader 5’s report of this run: how it was tested, the results and the balance chart. The settings and the trade list stay private; we walk you through them on a screen share.
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