I dug out a gold EA I made a while ago and adjusted the settings for a precise backtest using intraday data. Starting with 10,000 at the beginning of the year and running it up to now, the results look pretty good—it's grown more than tenfold in 10 months. The floating loss is a bit high, though, reaching 41,000 at its peak. So I'm going to readjust the settings to keep it under 8,000. At that level, it should be manageable relative to the margin. The estimated monthly return is currently around 30%, which would work out to roughly 20 times the initial amount over a year with compounding. Even allowing for just 25% of each doubling, it could still reach 4.5 times in a year. I'll test the adjusted settings on a cent account through the end of the year. If everything goes well, I'll focus on gold next year. I've tried this with cryptocurrencies several times a year, but it's been a complete lost cause.