Head to head
Impulse MT5vsProp Firm Gold EA
Both sets of figures are computed the same way from each product's own record. The measures that can be read against each other — the unit-free ratios — are scored. The ones that depend on how big the account was or how long it ran are shown underneath, unscored, because putting a winner on them would be comparing two different questions.
Impulse MT5 leads on 4 of the 5 measures that can be scored.
A count of rows, not a recommendation. Which of these measures matters is a question about the account it would run on.
- Profit factorEverything won divided by everything lost
- 2.65▲
- 1.27▲
- Payoff ratioAverage win divided by average loss
- 1.12▲
- 1.20▲
- Max drawdownDeepest fall from a previous high
- 1.6%▲
- 18.4%▲
- Recovery factorNet profit per unit of worst fall
- 13.72▲
- 1.78▲
- Growth per monthTotal growth compounded to a monthly rate
- 9.46%▲
- 4.53%▲
- Win rateNot scored — a high win rate is only good if the payoff supports it
- 70.1%▲
- 51.4%▲
- Record lengthHow much evidence there is
- 3 months▲
- 9 months▲
- TradesSample size behind every figure above
- 294▲
- 280▲
- Total growthNot comparable on its own — the records cover different spans
- 25.3%▲
- 48.9%▲
- Account sizePercentages compound faster on a small balance
- $3,000▲
- $2,500▲
Why these two are not quite like-for-like
- The two are measured from different sources — Impulse MT5 from trade history, Prop Firm Gold EA from published statistics. The ratios are computed the same way, but only a trade-by-trade history supports the full set of risk checks.
- One record is 3.6× longer than the other — Prop Firm Gold EA has had more time to meet a market it dislikes, which cuts both ways when reading its drawdown.
What each record shows
MT5 · Expert Advisor · XAUUSD
Impulse MT5
- Grid / basket positions
- Unbounded losses
Measured from trade history · 294 trades · 3 months
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Prop Firm Gold EA
Nothing in the published figures raised a flag. The checks that need trade-level data could not be run.
Measured from published statistics · 280 trades · 9 months
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