7 items you must check on the sales page before buying EA — a checklist to avoid regretting choosing based only on profit amount
"Because it's a backtest with an upward trend"
"Because the win rate is high"
"Because it has been selling well recently"
When choosing an EA, you tend to decide based on numbers that catch your eye.
Before I studied EAs, I also thought that large net profit meant excellence, and a high win rate meant security.
However, after comparing long-term backtests many times, I realized thateven EAs that achieve the same profit can have completely different levels of difficulty to reach that profit.
In this article, I整理 seven items you should confirm before buying, explained in terms understandable even to beginners.
Finally, I included a pre-purchase checklist you can save and use as is.
※This article does not endorse or guarantee the purchase or profits of any specific EA. Please make your own final judgment.
What you should look at first is not “how much it has increased”
The net profit from backtests is like the destination.
But what we actually have to endure is the journey to that destination.
- How much the capital has decreased along the way
- How many positions were held simultaneously
- How long it carried drawdown
- Whether profits are built up only by a few large wins
To look only at the profit amount without examining this is like looking at a photo of the summit without checking the difficulty of the trail.
From here on, we will specifically explain the seven items to check on the sales page and in backtests, and how to judge when numbers are not provided.