The issue for gold scalping ea's (1m) are that live accounts has execution or order fill delays which make them useless in the real world So if the scalping ea uses tight sl or trailing sl (which all do) the backtest will be inaccurate Best is to check for live account track record of at least 6 ...

I’m new to forex robots and I’m especially interested in automated scalping on XAUUSD. I’ve noticed that many gold scalping EAs show very impressive backtest results, but I’m not sure how to tell whether the robot is actually robust or just overoptimized for historical data. For those who have experi ...