SageGrid Disciplined
$1,000 on 31 Oct 2025 became $4,724.11 by 30 Oct 2026 in the MT5 Strategy Tester, on the broker’s real ticks. Trades less often and takes only its target, with no trailing exit. The smallest falls of the three.
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 Disciplined, kill switch at 35%
- Slower fills
- Re-run with a 500 ms delay on every order: the year ended at $3,730.63 (+273%), worst fall 26.07%
The results
Profit
| Net profit | +$3,724.11 |
|---|---|
| Return on $1,000 | +372% |
| Final balance | $4,724.11 |
| Gross profit | $10,940.99 |
| Gross loss | −$7,216.88 |
| Profit factor | 1.52 |
| Average profit per trade | $6.11 |
| Recovery factor | 4.76 |
| Sharpe ratio | 2.95 |
Risk
| Worst fall, floating P&L included | 27.35% |
|---|---|
| … in dollars | −$783.19 |
| Worst fall, closed trades only | 25.56% |
| … in dollars | −$731.96 |
| Biggest floating loss on one grid | −12.30% |
| … in dollars, the largest | −$407.46 |
| Worst day, 9 Oct 2026 | −$407.46 |
| Worst day in %, 15 Jun 2026 | −11.22% |
| Longest losing streak | 5 trades, −$308.11 |
| Losing months | 2 of 12 |
| Margin stop-outs | 0 |
| Kill switch (35%) triggered | Never |
Trades
| Trades | 610 |
|---|---|
| Winning trades | 357 (58.52%) |
| Buys, share won | 296 (59.46%) |
| Sells, share won | 314 (57.64%) |
| Largest win | $243.37 |
| Largest loss | −$203.87 |
| Average win / loss | $30.65 / −$28.53 |
| Average time in a trade | 10 h 41 min |
| Grids closed in profit | 354 of 376 |
| 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
- $2,450.25 (+145%)
- Worst fall, floating P&L included
- 19.70%
- Worst fall, closed trades only
- 17.67%
- Profit factor
- 1.69
- Trades
- 313
- Kill switch triggered
- Never
- Slower fills
- With a 500 ms delay: $2,071.98 (+107%), worst fall 19.97%
- 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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