V2.1
Listing updated
Lizard is a gold Expert Advisor for MetaTrader 5, published by Marco Scherer. Its linked live signal covers 163 trades in 4 months, at a profit factor of 2.29 and a win rate of 74.85%. A win and a loss are close to the same size.
- 163 trades on the linked live signal
- 18 weeks of recorded history
- Tracked on an account opened with 250 USD
- Minimum deposit stated as $250
- Around 41 copies sold a month
- Total return
- +91.8%
- 4 monthsno fixed scale
- Max drawdown
- 14.7%
- 35 days to recover0–100% below the running peak
- Profit factor
- 2.30
- gross win ÷ gross loss1.0 at the centre, 3.0 at the rim
- Win rate
- 75.2%
- 161 trades0–100% of closed trades
- Recovery factor
- 3.21
- net profit ÷ worst fall0 at the centre, 10× at the rim
- Sharpe
- not disclosed
- on monthly returnsno fixed scale
Computed from No live signal published on the MQL5 listing.
Lizard Kept Score
Four measured quarters out of 100. Every input is a figure printed elsewhere on this page, read against a band that is the same for every product on the site.
44
out of 100
from trade history
- Evidence6 / 25
161 trades over 4 months
against 0 at the floor, 24 months at full, and 0 at the floor, 500 trades at full
- Risk control21.3 / 25
14.74% worst drawdown
against 0–100% below the running peak
- Consistency16.2 / 25
2.3 profit factor
against 1.0 at the centre, 3.0 at the rim
- Return on risk8 / 25
3.21× recovery factor
against 0 at the centre, 10× at the rim
- Grid / basket positions−4
- Unbounded losses−4
How the Kept Score is worked out, and every product scored →
Lizard screenshots
3 images from the seller's listing, shown as published. Nothing on them has been measured by this site — the figures elsewhere on this page are the check.
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Lizard live signal record
Account growth
161 closed trades from 12 May 2026 to 3 Sept 2026.
The shape of the record
Six measures on fixed scales — the same scales for every product on this site.
- Winning trades0–100% of closed trades
- Losing trades0–100% of closed trades
- Maximum drawdown0–100% below the running peak
- Profit factor1.0 at the centre, 3.0 at the rim
- Recovery factor0 at the centre, 10× at the rim
- Profitable months0–100% of months in the record
Where the balance came from
Trading profit against the money paid into and taken out of the account.
Time spent below the previous peak
Deepest fall 14.7%, over 35 days.
Result by month
60% of months finished up.
Download
Download and pricing
Lizard free download
There is a free download, and it is the demo on the product's own MQL5 listing — not a build from somewhere else. The two columns below are what separates it from the paid version. What the demo can and cannot do.
Free demo
$0
- Runs in the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester
- Backtest on your own broker's price history
- Cannot trade a live or demo account
- Downloaded 6,657 times
Full version
$99
- Trades live and demo accounts
- 15 activations per licence
- Bought from the seller, not from us
- We take no payment and hold no stock
Both links go to the seller's own listing. We do not host, sell or distribute this software, and we do not have a copy of it. Anything offering a paid Expert Advisor as a free live download is pirated, unsupported, and a common way to get a trading account drained by a modified build.
What Lizard's record shows
Grid / basket positions
Up to 6 positions were held on XAUUSD-ECN at the same time. Baskets like this share one adverse move, so the account's real exposure is the whole ladder rather than any single trade.
How this was measured
- Peak simultaneous positions
- 6
- Symbol
- XAUUSD-ECN
- Measured from
- overlapping open/close times
Unbounded losses
The worst loss is 27.8× the typical one. Losses that fan out like this are the signature of a strategy with no fixed stop, though the export has no stop-loss column to confirm it directly.
How this was measured
- Worst vs typical loss
- 27.8×
- Typical loss
- 1.14
- Worst loss
- 31.74
- Source
- inferred from loss distribution — no stop-loss column present
Short track record
161 trades over 3.7 months. Metrics from a record this size are indicative rather than conclusive — a strategy needs to meet a market it dislikes before its drawdown figure means much.
How this was measured
- Trades
- 161
- Months
- 3.7
How Lizard trades
Read off the record rather than the sales page: how long it holds, which way it leans, and what market the figures actually describe.
Built around one market
Everything here is XAUUSD. A single-market record says nothing about how it behaves anywhere else, so read every figure below as being about XAUUSD alone.
Where the money came from
The same totals the listing publishes, divided into the numbers that say whether an edge is real and whether it would survive being run on a different account.
Money won against money lost
Its profit factor is 2.30 — gross profit divided by gross loss.
Where the edge comes from
It wins 75.2% of the time, but its average win is only 0.8× its average loss. The edge is frequency, not size — it needs about 57% of trades to win simply to break even.
Growth, per month
+91.8% total over 4 months compounds to +19.0% a month. The monthly rate is the comparable number: a total says as much about how long an account ran as about how well it traded.
What could go wrong with Lizard
Every figure here is already in the record. These are the parts of it a summary table averages away.
Profit against the worst dip
It made 3.2× its deepest drawdown in total profit. Above one means the record has more than covered its own worst stretch.
What Lizard needs from your account
Cost and account size, against the drawdown this record already produced.
What the minimum really means
The listing asks for $250 minimum. At the 14.7% drawdown this record already produced, an account that size would have been $37 down at the worst point — on the tracked account, at its settings. Yours will differ.
The licence against the account
At $99, the licence costs 39.6% of the $250 minimum deposit it asks for. That is the first drawdown, and it lands before a single trade.
The account these figures came from
Every figure above comes from one account that opened with $250. A different size, a different broker or different settings is a different result.
What buyers say
Counted from the reviews MQL5 publishes on the listing. We count the subjects raised and the ratings given; we do not reprint the reviews.
What the marketplace scores it
4.07 out of 5 from 71 reviews on MQL5. That is a rating of the purchase — the seller, the support, the documentation — and only indirectly of the trading.
The rating, split three ways
MQL5 scores it 4.00 on description, 4.00 on reliability and usability, and 4.10 on support. Buyers rate reliability and usability lowest, which is the part the headline number averages away.
What buyers actually write about
Across the 20 most recent reviews, results and profit comes up most often — 9 of them mention it. Losses and drawdown is the subject appearing most in the negative ones.
How the recent ones split
Of the 20 reviews the listing serves, 12 rate it four stars or better and 6 rate it two and a half or worse. This is the most recent page rather than every review ever left, which means it describes the version on sale now.
Who maintains it
How recently it was touched, how long it has been sold, and what the marketplace record says about the seller.
Whether anyone is still working on it
Version 2.1, last updated 4 Oct 2026 — about 1 months ago. A system still being touched is one whose author is still answering for it.
How long it has been on sale
Listed since 9 May 2026, about 6 months. Long enough to have traded through more than one kind of market.
Who is behind it
MQL5 gives Marco Scherer its badges for “Sold more than 500 products”. Those count marketplace volume, not trading results.
Lizard vs Quantum Queen X MT5 vs SomaGold
How Lizard stands against two other measured tools on the site, on the ratios that do not depend on account size. Every figure is computed from that product's own record; the marker shows which leads on each measure.
- Profit factorEverything won divided by everything lost
- 2.30
- 2.69▲
- 1.56
- Payoff ratioAverage win divided by average loss
- 0.76
- 0.82
- 1.16▲
- Max drawdownDeepest fall from a previous high
- 14.7%
- 11.2%▲
- 46.5%
- Recovery factorNet profit per unit of worst fall
- 3.21
- 6.08▲
- 0.81
- Growth per monthTotal growth compounded to a monthly rate
- 19.00%▲
- 14.98%
- 8.87%
- Win rateNot scored — a high win rate is only good if the payoff supports it
- 75.2%
- 76.5%
- 57.4%
Quantum Queen X MT5 leads on 3 of the 5 measures that could be decided — Lizard on 1. The full comparison lists what the records do not share.
Lizard: common questions
The four things people search for about this product, answered from the record rather than from the sales page.
Is there a Lizard free download?
Yes — a free demo. Lizard is sold on the MQL5 Market, and every listing there carries a demo you can download at no cost: the full algorithm, limited to the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester. The full version is $99. MQL5 records 6,657 downloads of it.
What the demo can and cannot do, and how to spot a pirated buildDoes Lizard have a live signal?
No. The Lizard listing on MQL5 does not link a public live signal, which is why this page shows no equity curve and no performance figures. Without a signal there is no forward record to check, and we do not publish estimates in place of one. Treat any performance claim about it as unverified until the seller publishes a signal.
Is there a Lizard backtest?
Not one from us, and deliberately: a backtest is run by whoever is selling the product, on settings they choose. Instead this page measures 161 real trades over about 4 months of forward results, which is stronger evidence than any backtest: nobody can re-run it until it looks good.
Why we publish no backtests — and how to run your own in MetaTrader 5Is there a Lizard Myfxbook review?
Not that we can verify. Lizard is not tracked on Myfxbook, and we will not point at a third-party page we cannot confirm belongs to this product — a name match is not proof. It publishes no MQL5 signal either, so there is currently no independently verified record of it trading anywhere.
Why a name match is not proof, and what a marketplace rating measuresIs Lizard profitable?
Over 161 trades and about 4 months, the tracked account grew 91.8%, which is 19.0% a month compounded. The deepest it fell on the way was 14.7%. That is one account, on its settings and its broker, over that period.
What pairs does Lizard trade?
One symbol: XAUUSD. A record on a single symbol says nothing about how it behaves on another, so treat results elsewhere as untested.
What deposit does Lizard need?
We do not publish a recommended deposit, because that is the seller's claim to make and ours to check. What the record shows is the account it was tracked on, which opened at $250. The deepest drawdown on that account was 14.7%, so an account too small to sit through the same fall in money terms would have been closed out before the record recovered.
Is Lizard safe to run on a live account?
Not in the sense the question usually means. The worst fall on the record was 14.7%. Our checks raised grid / basket positions and unbounded losses — the risk panel on this page says what each one means and what triggered it. Size against that fall, not against the average month.
Does Lizard work on MetaTrader 4?
No. This is the MetaTrader 5 build, and a build for one terminal does not run on the other. Any MetaTrader 4 version is a separate listing with its own record, and nothing measured here carries across to it.
Lizard specification
- Platform
- MetaTrader 5
- Type
- Expert Advisor
- Author
- Marco Scherer
- Symbols
- XAUUSD
- Timeframes
- H1
- Version
- 2.1
- Published
- 9 May 2026
- Last updated
- 4 Oct 2026
- Minimum deposit
- $250
- History measured
- 12 May 2026 – 3 Sept 2026
- Trades analysed
- 161
- Opening balance
- $250
- Data source
- No live signal published on the MQL5 listing
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