About Forex Tool Data

What this site is

Forex Tool Data holds 90 MetaTrader products. 73 of them carry performance figures, and every one of those figures is arithmetic over a record the page names and links to — 7 from a trade-by-trade history file we hold, the rest transcribed from the account totals a seller publishes on their MQL5 signal page.

Nothing on a product page is repeated from a sales page. We do not reproduce the seller's description, their screenshots' captions or their claims; where we record a claim at all it is stored so it can be checked against the data, and it is never published. What you read on a product page is either a figure computed from the record or a sentence generated from those figures — which is why a product with a thin record gets a short page rather than a padded one.

Where a figure cannot be computed honestly, the page says so and leaves it blank. A return percentage needs an opening balance; where a seller never published one, the percentage is missing rather than estimated. A risk check that could not run is printed as a check that did not run, because "we looked and found nothing" and "we could not look" must never read the same.

How a product is measured

Every product is scored out of 100 by the Kept Score: four measures — length and depth of the record, worst drawdown, profit factor and recovery factor — each read against a fixed band, weighted towards what a strategy kept rather than what it reached. The bands never move and nothing is normalised against the rest of the catalogue, so a product's score cannot change because its neighbours did. The whole formula is written out on that page, including every penalty, and each input is a number already printed on the product's own page.

A record too short to judge is scored provisionally and listed last, however good its first weeks look. That is deliberate: a ratio computed from a fortnight is a rumour whatever its value, and the ranking has to say so rather than reward it.

One thing on a product page is not computed: the verdict, where one exists. That is our editorial read of what the figures mean, and the freedom in it is in what to point at — never in the numbers, which a reader can check against the same page.

How the site earns

No product is sold on this site and no payment is taken here. There are two ways money reaches us, and both are on the page where they apply.

• Our own storefront. For 81 of the products listed we hold a resale licence, and the buy button goes to bestforextool.com — a separate storefront run by the same people who publish this site — at the price shown on the page.
• Marketplace links. Everywhere else the buy and demo links go to the seller's own MQL5 listing. Some carry a referral code that may earn a commission. Those links are marked sponsored in the page's markup, which is what tells a search engine there is a commercial relationship behind them.

What money does not buy: a listing, a score, a ranking, a risk flag or a verdict. The arithmetic is identical for a product we resell, a product that pays a commission and a product that pays nothing, because it is the same code reading the same fields — there is no field a payment could set. Several products we sell score below products we do not, and they are listed in that order.

Who runs it

Forex Tool Data is published by Forex Tool Data, which also runs bestforextool.com. It is a small operation: the measurements are produced by one analyst writing and reviewing the code that computes them, not by a team of reviewers and not by a model.

There is no AI scoring anything here, despite the domain. The name came first and the method did not follow it: every number is arithmetic you could reproduce in a spreadsheet from the record the page links to, and the method page exists so that you can.

Write to aiforextool@gmail.com about anything on the site — corrections first among them. If a figure here disagrees with what you make it from the same record, that is the most useful message we get, and the one we answer fastest. There is also a Telegram for quicker questions.

What this site is not

• Not financial advice. We publish measurements, not recommendations. We are not licensed to advise and will not do it informally. A track record describes markets that have already happened; its main use is spotting the strategies whose risk is structured so that one bad stretch ends the account.
• Not affiliated with MetaQuotes or MQL5. We read public listings and public signal pages. No seller has editorial input, and none has been offered any.
• Not a review aggregator. Buyer reviews on a marketplace are counted and the tally is published; the review bodies are not, because they are other people's words about someone else's product.

More on how the figures are produced: the Kept Score, why we publish no backtests, and what a verified record proves.