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The EA vendor’s sales page shows a beautiful equity curve. Maximum drawdown: 4.7%. Five years of data. Hundreds of trades. You check the myfxbook, the…
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The EA has a 68% win rate over 120 trades. The developer presents this as evidence of a genuine edge…
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