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Practical guides on EA risk, capital and drawdown for MT5 traders.

• Grid and Martingale EAs: Why Smooth Equity Curves Fail
  2026-10-24 · Why grid and martingale EAs show smooth equity curves until they don't: the floating-loss maths, how to spot one from its stats, and how to cap the damage.
• How Much Capital Do You Need to Run an EA? Minimum Balance
  2026-10-24 · The "$100 minimum" on an EA page isn't your real minimum balance. Four checks (lot floor, losing streaks, tail drawdown, margin) to size your EA deposit.
• How to Backtest an MT5 EA Properly: Ticks, Costs, Set Files
  2026-10-24 · A step-by-step MT5 Strategy Tester guide: real-tick modelling, history quality, spreads and commission, set files, the real lot size and what to check after.
• How We Backtest EAs: Ticks, Costs, Monte Carlo, Capital
  2026-10-24 · Our MT5 EA backtesting process: real ticks, history quality, costs, equity rebuild, 5,000-run Monte Carlo, slippage stress and capital floors.
• Monte Carlo for MT5 Backtests: Drawdown Ranges, Slippage
  2026-10-24 · How to Monte Carlo an MT5 EA backtest: resample baskets, add slippage, read P50/P95 drawdown and blow %. Real results from four EAs, with the method's limits.
• Running Multiple EAs on One MT5 Account: Risk and Stats
  2026-10-24 · How to run several EAs on one MT5 account without one blowing up the rest: magic numbers, per-EA stats, combined drawdown, correlation and hard loss limits.
• Myfxbook Alternatives for EA Traders: Per-EA Stats Compared
  2026-10-24 · Myfxbook alternatives for MT5 EA users compared fairly: FX Blue, MQL5 Signals, QuantAnalyzer, journals and on-chart trackers. Per-EA stats, drawdown, privacy.
• Prop Firm Daily Drawdown: How to Size an EA So It Survives
  2026-10-24 · How prop firm daily and max drawdown rules work, how floating losses count, and how to size an EA's lot so a bad day can't fail your challenge. Worked maths.
• Reading MT5 Backtest Drawdown: Balance, Equity, Relative
  2026-10-24 · How to read drawdown in an MT5 Strategy Tester report: absolute, maximal and relative, balance vs equity, with a real report as a worked example.