Risk disclosure

What could go wrong

• The market gaps past your limits, over a weekend or on news.
• Your broker fills an order later or at a worse price than the test assumed, or closes you out on margin.
• The feed, the terminal or this site goes down, and an exit or the kill switch does not reach your broker.
• What held in the test stops holding, and the first place it shows is your own account. The worst week of the whole test was the week of 2026-05-10, at -6.55 bps per position.
• Some test figures are below the usual bar of 2 and may be luck: tier A XAUUSD (t 1.93).
• Your broker charges a fee for holding a position overnight on some markets, and the test's figures leave it out: on its newer weeks, charging it on BTCUSD and ZECUSD gave +9.05 bps per position instead of +10.39.

What TROID trades

At a trader's first fill on one of its 5 markets, the copy model and the add model score the trade, each against that market's bar. On every market, TROID copies a trade only when both scores clear their bars (tier A, both models agree). Everything else is a pass, and TROID never takes the other side of a trader.

Each copy is one position, sized by your settings and never scaled up by a score. TROID does not add to it when the trader adds, and closes it when the trader closes theirs, or after 480 minutes at most. How the strategy tested is on the evidence pages.

Your limits

Three of them are yours alone: your markets, your balance and your hard stop. TROID never changes them for you. The others are set in Setup; where TROID sets one for every account, Setup shows it as "set by TROID for all accounts". The engine works inside them, in this order; each one can only narrow the one before:

1. Your markets TROID trades only its tested markets, and only the ones you leave ticked in Setup. Unticking one stops new trades there from the moment you save; a trade already open there still leaves by its own exit.
2. Your trade size Drawdown-targeted sizing sets each trade from your equity so a bad run on one market costs about a set share of it. Your broker has a smallest order on each market: a balance too small for it there cannot trade that market, and the dashboard says how many of your markets your balance can trade. A live start is refused when it can trade none of them.
3. Your exposure caps Caps on total exposure, on one market and on one trade limit what can be open at once.
4. Open trades per market An entry that arrives at the limit is skipped; nothing is closed early to make room.
5. The hard stop If your equity falls more than your chosen % below the highest it has reached, every TROID position is closed, the engine stops and you are e-mailed. The highest point is kept when you save Setup, stop and start the engine, or the engine restarts by itself, so stopping and starting does not give you a new budget, and the engine will not start again while you are still below the limit. Only two things start a new budget: the "Reset my drawdown budget" button in Setup, which asks you to confirm and is recorded, and switching or restarting your account. Money you pay in or take out while the engine runs moves the highest point by the same amount; money you take out while it is off counts as a fall, so reset the budget after a withdrawal. Changing the % applies the moment you save.
6. The profit take When equity rises your chosen % above the balance (0 turns it off; your Setup tab shows the value in force), every TROID position is closed and the engine keeps trading. It is your control, not part of the tested strategy.

What the limits cannot do. They limit what TROID places. They do not protect you from gaps, slippage, broker stop-outs or an outage, and they cannot guarantee a maximum loss.

Paper and Live

Paper mode scores every trade and keeps a practice book without sending anything to your broker. Live mode sends orders, and the dashboard asks you to confirm before it starts. Start with a demo login in Paper mode and move on only when you understand what the engine does. The dashboard says whether your broker server is a demo one.

Your broker login

TROID stores your MT5 login, server and password encrypted, and uses them to run one MetaTrader 5 terminal in your name on its own servers. Anyone who can decrypt that store can log in as you at the broker: use a demo account until you have decided to trust that.

Administrator actions

A TROID administrator can stop your engine, close its positions, and set your account to live orders and start it. Every such action is recorded in the activity log.

Your responsibility

You own the broker account and the relationship with the broker. You are responsible for the credentials you enter, the limits you set and any margin your broker asks for. TROID provides software and a hosted terminal; it does not hold your money and gives no investment, tax or legal advice. It cannot guarantee that an order, an exit or the kill switch reaches your broker in time.