Advisor Cleaner – a preliminary test is not a death sentence!
I am glad to welcome you to the pages of our website. Today, by tradition, I would like to introduce you to the results of testing the Cleaner expert. Previously, I reviewed this expert, and as it turned out, the advisor was foreign-made and created in 2011.
It did not contain any dangerous trading methods such as martingale or grid, so many traders gave the developers only good reviews. However, during the review and preliminary tests, it was revealed that all the advisor settings were simply closed and the result of the preliminary test in the strategy tester was, to put it mildly, bad.
By the way, you can see the result of the preliminary test of the advisor in the picture below:
Based on the results of the preliminary test, to be honest, there was no desire to do another test of the same kind on a demo account. However, such a number of positive reviews about the advisor simply forced us to test the expert on a demo account, and as it turned out, it was not in vain.
If you regularly monitor this section, then you probably already know that for the reliability of the test, we rent a VPS server on an ongoing basis, so you simply don’t have to worry about non-interference and the absence of communication interruptions. A demo account itself was also opened, simulating $100 on a cent account, which is equivalent to $10,000.
Due to the fact that the software developers blocked access to all settings, we had to test the Expert Advisor with the default settings. According to the instructions, the advisor was placed on a thirty-minute chart of the euro/dollar currency pair. Testing started on August 30, 2015 and ended on September 10, 2015.
You can see the results of testing the Cleaner advisor in the picture below:
As you can see, the graphs of the preliminary test and testing on a demo account are radically different. To be honest, this is the first time I have come across the situation where a deliberately unprofitable advisor in the strategy tester would turn out to be profitable when trading under real market trading conditions.
And now about the performance indicators of the advisor. The cleaner uses automatic lot calculation depending on the risk, so with this deposit the expert opened a trade of 2 lots. In such a short period that the advisor spent in the market, he managed to bring us five percent of the profit with a maximum drawdown that could not even reach half a percent.
If we talk about the profitability of the expert, I would like to note that out of five positions, four were closed at profit, so the percentage of won trades is as much as 80 percent. The relevance of the trading strategy, which is embedded in the advisor’s algorithm, is indicated by the very high profit factor, which is 28.56.
In conclusion, I would like to say with surprise that the Expert Advisor really deserves more detailed and lengthy testing. The result is simply impressive, and to trade it there is no need to have a large deposit, because even with 10 dollars in a cent account you have the opportunity to test the adviser on real market conditions.