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2026-10-02

Turnaround Tuesday Measured at 6x Its Costs. Our EA Lost $40 Trading It.

We tested the Turnaround Tuesday rule on the S&P 500, Dow and Nasdaq 100. With one lot on every trade, it made about six times its costs. With normal position sizing, the same rule lost money.

2026-10-01

Edge or Luck? We Ran Our Own Forward Test Through a Free MT5 Check

Is your average trade really good, or was it luck? A simple test with your closed trades can tell you. We used our free YuRaLytics panel on our three demo forward-test accounts.

2026-09-12

The Gap-and-Go Made Money Every Year for Five Years. Then It Stopped.

Buying the S&P 500 after a big gap up made money in every in-sample year from 2017 to 2021. It matched a measurement we planned in advance, trade for trade. On new data it made only $111 on 169 trades.

ICT Silver Bullet — Does It Really Win 70%? I Tested 2,200 Trades

The Silver Bullet is sold on a 70–90% win rate. I wrote the rules down first, then tested every setup on three years of minute data across the Nasdaq, S&P 500, Dow, EUR/USD, GBP/USD and gold, with real costs. It won 36% of 2,200 trades. Watch the full breakdown.

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