[EA Development] This year's EA operation performance

Hello. This is 2pay.

The year-end is finally approaching. Some of you may be on holiday already, right?

I stopped running the EA last week and finished the work year.

This year I started EA operation in April.

January to March were a period for handling requests and creating EAs used for this year's operations, so essentially it was nine months of performance results.

There were two EAs used; from April to May they were operated on MT4, and from June to December on MT5.

The results are for the accounts registered on myfxbook below. (Should I also register REALTRADE?)

I’m not sure if it’s okay to link to external sites, so I’ve attached screenshots here instead.

- MT4

It’s an EA that counter-trades CHFJPY. It relentlessly trades against the trend by leveraging the perception of it as a safe asset.

On average about three trades per day, and it almost always held positions.

As of December, the correlation between the yen and the Swiss franc has begun to break down, so if I had continued running it, it might have become suspicious.

I had to consider whether it could operate, so I gave up on making it fully automated (EA product) and instead sell it as a discretionary-use signal indicator.

Product link：https://www.gogojungle.co.jp/tools/indicators/64013?via=search_product

- MT5

This is the much-loved USD/JPY anomaly by everyone.

I operated with 2% risk until August, then from September I operated with 4% risk.

The most memorable moment was immediately after starting operation when I hit about ten straight losses and registered the maximum drawdown.

This year there were U.S. rate cuts and Japan’s rate hikes, so I’ve been watching for a potential trend reversal and the resulting changes in EA performance.

Saying that it isn’t affected by interest rates would be a lie, but even so, looking at these results it seems real demand has its own pace.

Next year I plan to run an EA based on this one to further pursue profits. The EAs used this year will be kept on hiatus and moved to a new EA until the transition is complete.

This EA carries a somewhat special situation, so there are no plans to publicly sell it.

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Developers rarely feel satisfied just because they could add more.

When you see someone who, with the same logic, achieves higher returns at lower risk than you, you realize how wasteful your own method is.

If someone is achieving better results than you, that means there is still room for improvement in your own EA.

This is true at any stage of growth: even if you lose this year, if someone who used a similar approach ends the year with fewer losses, then that too shows there was room for improvement.

The comparison should be limited to those who practice and honestly disclose results. People who mere talk “If you do this you’ll win (not done)” should be removed from the ring.

This concludes the current content.

In terms of this year overall, it was reasonably good, and next year I want to exceed it.

Thank you for reading.