Picture this: It’s 2:47 AM in Paris. Your alarm blares like a dying cat. You stumble out of bed, eyes half-shut, coffee already cold from yesterday. Why? Because the London open is about to happen, and if you miss the first 30 minutes of that juicy volatility spike, you’ll feel like a loser all day.…
You’re sitting there at 2:17 AM. Equity curve red for the third week. Drawdown at -24%. Your finger hovers over the “Remove Expert” button. Heart pounding. Sweaty palms. That little voice screaming: “This time it’s different… this bot is broken… I’m going to lose everything…” Meanwhile your robot is calmly doing exactly what it was…
Your EA is printing money. Or bleeding pips. You have no idea why. Backtests look great. Live is a mystery. You tweak blindly. Drawdown deepens. Panic sets in. This is the robot journal gap — the difference between a dumb script and an evolving money machine. In 2026, the best traders don’t just run EAs.…
Gather ’round for a history lesson, you magnificent robot overlord. June 23, 2016: Brexit vote. The UK says “see ya” to the EU. Pound crashes 1800 pips in hours. Markets freeze. Spreads hit 100+ pips. 90% of live EAs running GBP pairs that night died screaming. Some blew entire accounts. Others never recovered psychologically (their…
You’ve seen the ads. “AI-Powered Neural Network EA — +580% in 2025, 4% Drawdown!” Screenshots of perfect equity curves. “Trained on 20 years of data with deep learning.” Your FOMO kicks in. You buy it for $499. Run it live. Three months later: -47% and radio silence from the vendor. Welcome to the machine learning…
You’re finally profitable. Equity curve climbing. You think: “Time to bump lots from 0.01 to 0.02 — gotta grow faster!” Six months later: Same % drawdown as before… but now it’s $14k instead of $3k. Your heart can’t take it. You cut risk back to tiny lots. Compounding stalls. This is the lot sizing trap…
Gather ’round, you beautiful leverage junkie. It’s story time. These are real margin call corpses from 2023–2026. Names changed. Screenshots exist (in my private “hall of shame” folder). Lessons etched in blood and zero balances. Read them. Laugh if you want. Then check your own risk settings… just in case. Story #1 – The “Aggressive…
You’ve built the perfect portfolio blueprint. Five uncorrelated bots. Dreaming of scaling to 10 for “even more diversification.” Then reality hits: One $10k account. All 10 EAs screaming for margin. One correlated move and boom — margin call at 3 AM. Welcome to the multi-EA single-account minefield — where good intentions meet leverage and die…
You placed the perfect scalping entry. Price hits your level. Order fills… 8 pips worse than you saw. Target was 10 pips. Now you need 18 just to break even. You didn’t lose to the market. You lost to slippage — the invisible tax that turns winning scalpers into break-even chumps and break-even scalpers into…
Open a Forex YouTuber channel. Search “Forex live trading.” Watch any “full-time trader” with 100k+ subs. You’ll see: Bullshit. In 2026, 87% of the big Forex YouTubers are running EAs behind the scenes — or at the very least heavily automated signals — while preaching “pure discretionary trading” to their audience. Let’s expose the scam,…