Why I’m creating gold-based anti-doubling (reverse averaging) again—not to build an “invincible safety EA.”
Nampin EA Verification Notes: Gold Mean-Reversion Nampin EA“SENJU”This is a series on its development and verification.
Product page is here
An EA in the nampin family has once caused my account to be wiped out entirely, or about 80% of it to vanish.
Still, I created my own gold mean-reversion nampin EA. I know it sounds contradictory.
Nampin can risk a large portion of funds with a single stop-out, which is dangerous. This is what I am aiming to create.
Even so, the reason I began is not to make an “invincible safe EA” this time.
I want to present the balance between how it fails and daily recovery in a way that can be explained.
There were things I decided from the outset not to create.
In this article, I will cover four points.
Why this system again(Gold, and my motivation)
Even I...points I think are contradictory
From the start, things I decided not to create.
Definition of what I will create
Why this system again
I have used nampin-type EAs before, but I had never built one.
Using it alone doesn’t reveal why it fails. I wanted to present, from the creator’s perspective, how it fails and how daily recovery balances.
To be honest, from a selling standpoint, nampin EAs areeasy to build and easy to sell. Because they tend to have high win rates and upward-trending graphs. That’s why I feel the stance of the creator matters.
There is also a reason I chose Gold.
Gold has wide price movements,making both mean-reversion recovery and deep pullbacks in one direction easy to observe
While the win rate looks high and daily gains seem likely,there are rare deep pulls that decide the account.
In the past, the assumption was that “it would come back.” Now,“When it doesn’t come back, how far do you tolerate it by design”takes precedence.
There is also motivation to align what I write in this series with the product philosophy.
Even I think it’s contradictory
An EA that risks most of the funds with a single stop-out. I am trying to create exactly that. This contradiction cannot be eliminated.
So,I will not say it is “safe.”I will shape it so that I can explain “how it fails” and “how often,” which is my answer to this contradiction.
Things I decided from the start not to create
Overly filtered rules stacked just to inflate win rate
Conditions added just because “backtests look clean”
Unexplained exclusions to make losses appear zero on reports
Words not used in sales messages:phrases that imply “god,” “peace of mind by inaction,” or “principal guarantee”
A presentation that may mislead small investors into thinking “as recommended, it’s safe”
Regarding the last item. I will not present a method that makes people think it’s safe by reducing funds. I will write one example of how to approach testing with small funds, but it is not a recommendation for small accounts.
Definition of what I will create
Target:Gold (XAUUSD), M5, mean-reversion nampin
Senju’s one-line definition:“Small pickups, layered positions, and recovery. A gold-focused, multi-stage recovery EA”
It usually runs with shallow drawdowns, buta very small number of sustained trends can dominate resultsmean-reversion nampin
Rather than zero accidents,the impression changes with distribution, annual differences, and capital amount, based on that premise
What I want to give users is not “dream performance,” butclear explanations of suitability and prerequisites
What I will write in this series
In this series, I will not only introduce completed features but alsothe choices I did not make.
This is to record the ongoing testing and reasons for rejecting certain approaches that cannot be fully described on the product page.
This is what led to
“SENJU”
A small, multi-layered, recovery-focused EA for GOLD.
・Target:Gold (XAUUSD) / M5 / mean-reversion nampin
・Product page:Distribution of verification results, year-by-year outcomes, and risk explanations published as-is
Next time
Next time,the shallow daily performance and the tail that decides resultswill be discussed.