Every EA seller on MQL5 says "live results verified on Myfxbook". Some of those pages are genuinely verified, some are demo accounts, some have a 40% gain built on a 90% drawdown, and some stopped updating months ago. The link itself is not the proof — what's on the page is. Here is what to look at, in the order that catches the most problems fastest.
1. Two green badges: Track Record and Trading Privileges
At the top of every Myfxbook account are four badges. Track Record verified means Myfxbook has read the account history directly from the broker, so the trades are real and complete. Trading Privileges verified means the account can actually trade — it's not a read-only investor login. If either badge is grey with an exclamation mark, the numbers below are self-reported. Treat them as marketing, not evidence.
The Live Update badge is separate: it only tells you the account is currently connected. An account can be fully verified and still have stopped updating.
2. Real or demo, and which broker
The line under the account name says "Real (USD)" or "Demo". Demo results are backtests with extra steps: no slippage, perfect fills, no swap surprises. A cent account ("Real (USC)") is real money, just small — that's fine, and common for testing strategies publicly.
The broker name is a link. Click it. A verified account at a recognisable broker means the spreads and execution the EA lived through are the same ones you'll get.
3. Drawdown before gain
Look at the Drawdown figure before you look at Gain. A +90% gain with 30% drawdown and a +90% gain with 75% drawdown are completely different products: the second one was one bad week away from zero. Drawdown is the number that tells you what it felt like to hold the account, and what deposit you need to survive the next one.
Then open the Drawdown tab on the chart. A single deep spike that recovered is a different story from drawdown that ratchets deeper every month.
4. Abs. Gain vs Gain, and the deposits line
Gain is compounded; Abs. Gain is profit divided by total deposits. When they diverge a lot, money was added or withdrawn along the way. That's not wrong — but a page showing +200% gain on an account that was topped up five times after losses is telling you something the headline number hides. Scroll down to Deposits and Withdrawals and read the dates.
5. Trade count and age
Twenty winning trades in three weeks is a coin flip that came up heads. Look for at least a few hundred closed trades over several months, ideally crossing at least one nasty news event (NFP, FOMC, a CPI surprise). The Info tab shows the start date; the Trading Activity section shows total trades.
6. Profit factor and average win vs average loss
In Advanced Statistics: profit factor is gross profit ÷ gross loss. Above 1.5 is healthy for a grid, above 2 is good, above 5 usually means very few losses so far — check the trade count. Then compare Average Win to Average Loss in currency. A 90% win rate with an average loss ten times the average win is the classic martingale shape: many small wins, one large loss that erases them.
7. The equity line, not just the balance line
The Growth chart draws balance (closed trades) and equity (including floating P&L). A balance line that climbs smoothly while equity dives underneath it means open losing positions are being carried — the classic look of a grid holding a basket. The gap between the two lines at its widest is the drawdown you would actually have experienced.
8. Open trades right now
The Open Trades tab shows what's floating today. A large negative floating P&L relative to balance means the account is in drawdown at this moment, regardless of how green the history looks. For a grid EA, the number of open positions tells you how deep the current basket is.
9. Does the history match the product?
Open the History tab and check the symbols, lot sizes and comments. If the EA is sold as "XAUUSD H1" and the history is full of EURUSD manual trades, the page isn't tracking the product. Magic numbers and trade comments usually carry the EA's name.
10. Is it still updating?
"Updated: 3 months ago" at the bottom of the stats block means the seller disconnected the account — often right after a drawdown. A live account that's still connected during its bad weeks is worth more than a perfect one that vanished.
How Quantora Robots publishes results
Every Quantora EA is linked to a public Myfxbook account with Track Record and Trading Privileges verified, and the website reads gain, monthly average, max drawdown, profit factor and win rate from Myfxbook's API every morning — nothing is hand-typed. The drawdown of the Swing Trading account is shown as prominently as its gain, because that's the number a buyer needs.
