
Originally Posted by
M.A.D.
1 to 300 pct per annum? That's pretty conservative. Do you have a link to a live/demo account you are currently forward testing?
Also, I would not rely on backtests since they don't take many things into consideration such as slippages and latency and the spread a certain pair would have would be the previous spread it had when the backtest started. This is good for fixed spread accounts but can be misleading for variable spread accounts such as ECN and DMA accounts.
Forward testing is much better since the variable spreads can be taken into account, although it does have slippages and requotes and hitting prices off market when compared to real accounts. Still, it is much more reliable compared to backtests.
Anyway, for a robot that is totally mechanical like you said, it would work on micro accounts trading multiple currency pairs that are not totally correlated to each other. This does have less profit but the chances of getting a margin call are definitely low.
Are you running your robot on a VPS? And is it posting its results to a third party site such as mt4i or fxstat? Care to post the link here?