FXZipper EA Review

FXZipper EA has got only one live trading account on Myfxbook that begun its trading in November 2019. Live trading stats of the robot are positive so far and show a bit sharp upward move.

The first thing that catches the eye is the drawdown level of the FXZipper EA which is equal to 13.33%. This is actually a very low index for the trading robot that makes 120.43% of profit in 15 months which speaks up about the nature of the EA that is represented here (look at the screenshot below). The robot has been working live since November 2019 which is enough to make some decisions about the reliability of the advisor in the long-term perspective.

As we can see from the graph, there was no deep floating or closed drawdowns during the current trading period of the robot. The average monthly profit level of the EA is 5.82% which together with the low drawdown level looks like a safe and quite profitable Forex strategy at the same time.

The average profit to drawdown ratio level of the EA according to the trading results that it has been showing since November 2019 is 0.65:1 which is okay for the scalping trading strategy such as FXZipper EA.

As it’s been mentioned before, FXZipper EA is a scalper, which means that this robot does not keep trades open for a long time. The main idea of this strategy is that the robot takes a small amount of profit from every trade by closing them in a short period of time. The profit is accumulated not by the size of trades but by the number of profitable trades.

It is easy to analyze the duration of the trades of FXZipper EA by looking at the screenshots below. Those stats are taken from the real trading account from Myfxbook and show a straight trend of closing trades in the range of 1 minute to 14 hours.

At the same time, there is one more obvious trend in the chart below. Sometimes the FXZipper EA keeps trades open for a longer period – from 2 days to 2 days 10 hours. Most of those trades are profitable which means that this is a preprogrammed strategy and not the problem of the system.

The way FXZipper EA manages the duration of the trades makes it profitable not only on demo accounts but also in real trading. In most of the cases with scalpers, the way they make fast 1-minute (or even shorter) trades is impossible in real live trading because of different factors that influence this process such as brokers’ rules, the difference between price changing speed, and the execution of the order, etc. This way FXZipper EA makes a difference by closing trades in a longer period of time so that the trades execution speed, margin level, and other factors can’t influence the efficiency of the trading.

One of the main features of this Forex robot is that it’s compatible with almost every broker, which is not that often for scalpers. In most of the cases, scalpers use so-called “toxic” patterns that are frequently get blocked or simply are not allowed for use with certain brokers. But, as a developer declares, FXZipper EA is friendly with any broker that has narrow spreads. Mainly, this is so because of the lot size of trades. “Toxic” scalpers usually take 2-3 pips per trade which is too small for most of the brokers. On other hand, FXZipper EA takes an average of 7-10 pips per trade (look at the screenshot below).

The developer of the FXZipper EA added some special features to the robot to make it safer and more profitable. For example, there is some postponement option that can be enabled if needed. The developer explains the features of the option this way:

“There is a special technology implemented in the EA, that allows postponing the opening of a trade by signal if it has become unprofitable due to a sharp price increase, requotes or a fleeting increase of spread. A trade will be opened either when the price is best for its opening (to earn a maximum profit), or the EA will deliberately miss a low-profit trade. This feature can be enabled or disabled in the settings of the EA”.