GDS Renko Zones Demo
A real but tiny effect on gold, too weak and too sensitive to its start date to trade.
- XAUUSD
- Renko
- Zones
- Real stop-loss
- Free on MQL5 CodeBase
Not proven
No check fails, but 4 of 6 raise a caution.
Signed, SachinFX Lab
Tested 8 Sep 2026
The six Lab checks.
| Check | Result | What we found |
|---|---|---|
| 01Real ticks | CAUTION | 74 trades against the author’s 72, but +$569.74 against the advertised +$1,026.29, and a 48.7% win rate against 58.3%. |
| 02Out-of-sample | CAUTION | January 2025 to May 2026 made +$772.36 at a profit factor of 1.13 over 402 trades, with a 9.85% drawdown. But the t-statistic is 0.95: a 17% chance the edge is zero or negative, and about 1,800 trades needed to settle it. |
| 03Live and verified | NOT ASSESSED | Backtests only. This verdict rests on the Lab’s own tests, not on a live account. |
| 04Real costs | PASS | About $7.30 of spread and commission across 74 trades. |
| 05Robustness | CAUTION | 25 of 26 variants stay positive, but the start date alone moves the result from +$412 to +$2,084. On EURUSD, GBPJPY, US30 and WTI, 7 of 8 runs lose. |
| 06Integrity | CAUTION | At 0.20 lot it makes +282% with a 68.3% drawdown. A terminal restart re-anchors the Renko bricks, so a live run can drift away from the test. |
What we measured.
Drawdown first. Every figure comes from the Lab’s own backtests of the version named above.
- Max drawdown, out-of-sample9.85%
January 2025 to May 2026 at 0.01 lot: +$772.36, profit factor 1.13 over 402 trades.
- Drawdown at 0.20 lot68.3%
Over the same 20 months the return rises to +282%, and so does the risk.
- Full 20 months+$1,406.80
Profit factor 1.21 at 0.01 lot.
- Edge per trade+$1.92
The average result per trade, against a standard deviation of $40.69. Too small to tell apart from luck yet.
- Author’s window, our replay+$569.74
Against the advertised +$1,026.29.
- Other markets7 of 8 lose
EURUSD, GBPJPY, US30 and WTI.
How we tested.
The settings files and reports go into a test pack, published with the final verdict.
- Market
- XAUUSD, M1
- Data
- Real ticks, Jan 2025 to Aug 2026
- Costs
- IC Markets Raw spread and commission
- Account
- $10,000 at 0.01 lot, leverage 1:500
- Settings
- All inputs pinned
- Version
- CodeBase 76794
- Platform
- MT5 build 6182
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Verdicts are the Lab’s opinion, based on reproducible tests of the version named. They are not investment advice. Trading on margin carries a high risk of losing money.