In my last posting I asked “what if I raised the risk level on M5G cyborg“. Well after 3 weeks and tripling my demo account, it did this:

Before you say “I told you so – never get greedy and fool with the leverage settings”, an interesting thing is I am trading the same system with the same settings (except leverage) using the same broker and both accounts opened the same trades. The difference is my live account closed the same trade for a profit and the demo did not hit the target and found the stop instead. Just goes to show the price feeds for live and demo and the order execution are similar, but quite not the same. This is why you should never really totally trust a demo account forward test.

(Another more superstitous part of me knew that as soon as I published the last post on my blog the account would blow up….)

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