Will an optimized EA guarantee live profits?

No, and anyone who promises that is selling something else. Good optimization narrows the space of parameter sets likely to keep working and shows you where the strategy breaks. That's decision-making evidence, not a promise.

What data do you test on?

Real tick data wherever possible — Dukascopy/Tickstory imports or your broker's own feed when venue-specific fills matter. Modeling-quality MT5 bars alone are only used when explicitly agreed.

Can you test a strategy that isn't coded yet?

Often yes — a Python prototype is much faster than a full EA and answers 'does this edge exist' before paying for production code. Ask about it during scoping.

Who owns the source code?

You do. On final payment we transfer the complete source code, and it is yours exclusively. We never reuse or resell client strategy logic — every project runs under an NDA by default.

How does pricing work?

Fixed scope, fixed quote. After you describe the project we return a written quote with the price, delivery date, and milestones. The quote is the price — there are no hourly meters or overages.

What if something breaks after delivery?

Every delivery includes a 30-day bug-fix window covering any defect against the agreed scope. Post-window changes are quoted separately, usually at a modest update fee.

Do you work under an NDA?

Yes. NDA by default on every project. Your strategy logic is never reused, resold, or published — including in our portfolio, unless you explicitly approve it.

Trading Software Development

MT5 Strategy Optimization & Backtesting Services

A backtest is only as credible as its data and its assumptions. Most overfit curves we see come from 99% modeling-quality fantasies on curated ranges, no spread/slippage reality, and optimizers that simply find the luckiest parameter cell. We do the opposite: real tick data, honest execution modeling, and validation designed to try to break the strategy.

Book a Free Call How We Work

NDA by default You own the source code Fixed scope, fixed quote

Overview

What this service actually involves

Our workflow: import verified tick data, define the optimization problem with the trader, run parameter searches with walk-forward splits, then report robustness — how performance degrades near the optimum, how many trades back the result, and whether the edge is plausibly real or just curve-fitted noise.

You get a decision, not a data dump: which parameter sets are robust, what market regimes the strategy dies in, and what live monitoring thresholds to set if you deploy.

Scope

What we do

Concrete deliverables, not a capability list. Every item below is scoped in writing before a fixed quote is issued.

Real-tick data sourcing & setup

Tickstory/Dukascopy or broker-provided tick data imported into MT5 with spread modeling matched to your live account conditions.

Optimization with guardrails

Genetic and grid parameter searches in MT5 Strategy Tester — with out-of-sample splits so the optimizer can't memorize the answer key.

Walk-forward & robustness analysis

Rolling in-sample/out-of-sample validation, parameter-plateau analysis, and Monte-Carlo trade resampling to estimate real drawdown distribution.

Performance forensics

Monte-Carlo aside: per-regime breakdown, trade-count adequacy checks, spread-sensitivity curves, and equity-curve realism tests.

Demo forward-test protocol

A defined forward-test plan — account type, duration, minimum trade count, and kill criteria — so live evidence complements the backtest instead of contradicting it.

Example scopes

Recent example scopes

Anonymized project briefs in the shape real requests arrive — platform, fixed quote, and timeline agreed before work starts.

Grid EA stress-test before prop entry

MT5 · fixed quote · 1 week

Client's grid EA for FTMO challenge: real-tick test over 5 years with Monte-Carlo sequence resampling against prop-firm drawdown rules. Report showed the daily-loss limit would have been breached in 2020 and 2024 vol spikes; re-sized parameters to survive them with defined kill-criteria.

Optimizer rescue for a mean-reversion EA

MT5 · fixed quote · 10 days

Client's MT5-native optimization returned 'best' parameters that failed out-of-sample immediately. Rebuilt the search with walk-forward splits and a parameter-plateau objective; delivered a robust zone with 20% wider settings that traded materially better forward.

Spread-sensitivity study for a scalper

MT5 · fixed quote · 1 week

Profit-vs-sweep analysis across spread bands per session: mapped exactly which sessions and pairs keep the edge alive and produced a session-filter spec that was implemented as a follow-on EA change.

See it work

The entry gate, running live

The same three checks the delivered EA runs on every tick — session, spread floor, volatility band — with stops and targets scaled off ATR. Move the inputs and watch it allow or refuse the trade.

Entry gate — spread, session, volatility

Move the inputs — the gate re-evaluates live

SessionCurrent spread28 ptsATR(14) on M5$4.4

Entry allowed

Spread floor (London)35 pts

Stop distance — ATR x 1.5$6.60

Target distance — ATR x 2.25$9.90

Reward : risk1.50 : 1

Runs the delivered build's own gate logic and ATR multiples in your browser. Distances are what the EA would place given these inputs; no trades are simulated and no returns are implied.

Pricing guidance

Typical project ranges

How budgets map to scope on this service. Your exact fixed quote arrives in writing after a scoping conversation — the numbers below are directional ranges, not promises.

Scope	Typical range (USD)	Delivery
Backtest on provided strategy + data	$300 – $600	3–7 working days
Optimization + walk-forward report	$600 – $1,200	1–2 weeks
Full robustness suite + forward protocol	$1,000 – $1,800	2–3 weeks

Validation projects run $300–$1,500 depending on data sourcing needs, optimization breadth, and report depth. Strategy + data provided is cheapest; full forensics with Monte-Carlo and forward-test protocols sit at the top. Fixed quote up front.

FAQ

Questions traders ask before hiring

Where this goes next

Expert Advisor Development

Validate first, then build — or rebuild with what the data showed.

HFT Bot Development

Execution-latency reality checks beyond price-path simulation.

Prop Firm EA Development

Optimize against prop rules, not just P&L.

MT5 Developer

Strategy Tester internals and MQL5 optimization hooks.

Delivered by backtesting and optimization engineers. Read about how we work: fixed quotes, milestone demos, source-code ownership, and a 30-day bug-fix window.

Ready to build this?

Book a 30-minute call and bring the strategy, the broken tool, or the rough idea. You leave with a written fixed quote — price, scope, delivery date — before any work starts.

Book a Free Call

A 30-minute call, no obligation. You leave with a written fixed quote — scope, price, delivery date.