NeuroWick

Muy mala gestión; no recomendada

I like this signal because it trades diversified pairs of forex, it changes of all those xau/usd signals ! And the signal provider is very friendly :)

As written on June 21, 2026:

I've been copying this signal for 3+ weeks. It compares favorably to other Forex currency pairs signals, including a couple I'm following concurrently (separate accounts). One of those other signals is non-grid using just one currency pair. It was showing almost linear growth and became really popular, yet had its performance worsen lately. The other is a grid, where there were a few dangerous equity drawdown spikes. In comparison, this signal just continued to perform and its equity drawdown didn't exceed half the monthly growth. I am likely to renew this one, but not those.

Before starting to copy, I contacted the provider and got exhaustive answers to all of my questions. This is one trade at a time per currency pair, but we may have a basket of trades running across multiple pairs simultaneously. There's no explicit SL on individual trades, but drawdown is managed and some trades are closed with losses, usually as part of closing a multi-currency basket in profit.

According to the provider, the setup is unusually advanced, on a dedicated server with GPU. The current strategy runs since the end of April, so older trades on the account are irrelevant.

The copying quality to another broker is very good for me. These trades are moderately sensitive to spreads and commissions, but that's not a problem for me as my broker's commissions are much lower than what I see most other brokers offer. (Please feel free to message me about the broker.)

Update on August 13, 2026:

Unfortunately, the signal (kind of) hit and exceeded its all-time worst drawdown seen in backtests, which was reported (by the provider in the description) as 34%, but is now (per MQL5 statistics) nearly 35%. However, that's 35% by equity relative to the new, temporarily inflated balance as some trades from the current basket got closed in profit. If we measure it relative to peak equity (rather than peak balance), it's not that bad yet - it's more like 27% - but is still a lot. This happened in under 4 months after launch of the current strategy, which is rather soon. This may be poor luck or more likely it indicates that (as usual) backtests are optimized and do not accurately reflect future frequency and extent of adverse events.

The explanation posted a few days ago on the provider's profile is that the larger trade that is now in floating loss is "tied to the recent coordinated JPY intervention by US and Japanese authorities, which has increased volatility across yen pairs — the system's automatic exposure balancing has scaled up sizing accordingly to manage that." While I had actually wanted larger trades, I thought more of us moving from 0.01 to 0.02 lots for all trades on the signal account once $200 was reached, not of selectively even larger lots (this one is 0.03) in association with increased volatility. Per my thinking, increased volatility should mean smaller trades, not larger. Be careful what you wish for.

Central bank interventions are infrequent. As I recall, this one was not announced publicly until after the fact. Once it was, maybe it would have been wise to look for a right moment to intervene and exit manually as well. I think there was in fact a reasonable opportunity or two. On the other hand, I understand the provider's preference to stay 100% algo and within tested parameters of the system, and it's too late to intervene now.

A 35% drawdown is bad, but it would not necessarily stop me from following a signal if this did not exceed typical monthly growth or if the signal had enough live history or the system had enough pure forward-test for us to know this is extremely rare. Unfortunately, here the drawdown put us 2+ months behind and there isn't enough history and backtest alone doesn't count.

This loss is not yet realized on the balance, but it is mostly hedged via other pairs with JPY. On one hand, this means that further progression of this event is unlikely to blow the account, but on the other it means that prompt full recovery is unlikely even if the US and Japan make another intervention making the price reach break-even for that worst trade again. The only chance seems to be via really optimal exit times for the individual pairs with JPY, not as a basket exit. The system already demonstrates ability to perform such selective exits - that's great.

I'm going to let the system manage this basket and will see what happens, and I've actually added a bit more funds to ease this on my end, but I am unlikely to stay with this signal beyond this month. It failed my expectations by getting into this situation so soon and without achieving a monthly growth that would make this acceptable.

A problem is swaps. While the signal account is swap-free and the same is recommended for follower accounts, mine is not (and I guess most other followers' are not). This wasn't a big deal so far, but if we're to hold losing trades for a long time, the negative swaps (or broker's markup on swaps when hedging) will add up. This may force me to stop earlier than the signal would.

I lowered the trade system reliability score accordingly. Trade copying quality and user support are still perfect!

Update on August 20, 2026:

The signal recovered a little bit, at some point to only 17% drawdown relative to peak equity, but its JPY trades are no longer hedged (now 0.04 lots on ~$180 equity). I temporarily stopped following it (and got the trades closed) before this week's triple-swap and rejoined with half balance afterwards, reducing my exposure (and accepting half of the loss from the currently open basket).

I share this as I know several other followers are also looking for a good way to exit the current basket - maybe consider a similar move next Wednesday if still relevant and if it looks like a good opportunity again. An alternative to stopping and rejoining with half is simply to withdraw half, in which case MT5's signal copying does a partial close of the trades (maybe a few minutes later). This does not fully avoid the day's swaps (only half), but it avoids other costs and doesn't skip any price movements.

Update on August 26, 2026:

It's another Wednesday and I finally parted ways with this signal. In hindsight, it was better not to rejoin with half balance a week earlier as I got a further loss during this extra week, but I'm glad I at least reduced exposure. My overall result for the last 2 months appears to be roughly a 10% loss (no way to tell exactly as I've been adding and removing funds) and it's roughly the same as the cost of swaps over this period, so in a swap-free account I may have been at break-even for these 2 months. I had this signal for a total of 3 months, and the first month it made me a profit (as well as the second month, but that's negated by the third month), so overall I am near break-even for the 3 months despite of the swaps and the latest floating loss (which I now accepted). That's not awful, but also not what I want from a signal.

I hope Farhad will continue to improve the system, including to avoid or down-size or promptly close such risky entries like we had with the rapid JPY price move on the intervention and to take swaps in consideration.