THE PERFECT $24,000,000 BACKTEST!?
Evidence: Backtest report and equity curve provided.
Initial deposit: $100.00
Total net profit: $24,365,238.18
Profit factor: 8.99 (astonishingly high, almost impossible)
Win rate: 93.76% (extremely high)
Max drawdown: 1.85% ($269,500) — incredibly small relative to profit
This EA returns a mathematically perfect straight-line equity curve in backtesting. Real market trading has ups and downs — market-driven EA equity curves show a jagged, varying pattern. A straight line is a hallmark of look-ahead bias.
Math overfit: A 1.85% drawdown is far too small for $24M in profit. The result is mathematically overfitted to specific training data using forward-looking strategies — peeking at future prices during backtest to make perfect entries.
Real-time reality: This EA cannot predict the future when running on a live account. The developer may have used IsTesting() checks so the logic either defaults to an unprofitable strategy, or completely disables trading until a server-side hidden "activation" is remotely triggered for a specific account — effectively limiting public reviews.