You can lose money using this software
Not as a legal formality — as the single most likely outcome for anyone who starts too small, expects too much, or switches it on during a week they cannot afford to lose. This page is the version of the pitch with nothing taken out.
Last updated 10 August 2026
The bot has drawn down about a fifth of the account, twice
In plain terms: at some point in each test period, an account running this configuration was worth about 21.2% less than its previous peak. If you cannot watch a fifth of your balance disappear without switching the bot off at the bottom, this software is not suitable for you — and switching it off at the bottom is how a drawdown becomes a permanent loss.
Note also that the win rate fell from 44.8% to 36.5% the moment the configuration met data it had never seen, and two of those five months lost money. We publish that because it is the honest measure of what happens when a strategy leaves the period it was chosen on.
A backtest is not a forecast
Backtested on historical XAUUSD data using the shipped default configuration. Hypothetical results — not a projection of future returns, and not a live track record. Trading carries risk of loss.
Every percentage we publish was measured on $1,000 at 1.5% per trade, on historical XAUUSD data, with spread charged and the shipped default configuration. Those are simple returns on the starting balance and an arithmetic mean across the window — they are not a compounding rate and they are not a number you can project into next month. Live results differ from any backtest because of slippage, real execution, requotes, broker-specific spreads and market conditions that did not occur in the test window.
Below $700 the risk settings stop meaning anything
The bot will trade from $100 — but you should know what changes at that size. The broker's smallest trade is 0.01 lots, which costs roughly $9–12.50 of risk on gold. On a $100 account that is about 10% per trade rather than the 1.5% you set, so position sizing can no longer respond to risk at all. Simulated from $100 across 2026, the shipped configuration still drew down 36%, and less conservative settings did far worse. From around $700 the percentage risk model starts working properly, and $1,000 is where the backtested figures above were measured.
The bot will run from $100 and we do not block it. But if you fund $100 and expect the percentages above, you will not get them — you will get roughly ten times the intended risk on every trade. If that is all the capital you have available, the correct decision is to keep trading on demo until it is not.
Leverage, and what gold does
XAUUSD is a leveraged product. Leverage multiplies losses exactly as fast as it multiplies gains, and it is possible to lose your entire trading balance. Gold in particular gaps hard around scheduled news and over weekends, and spreads widen at precisely those moments. The bot blocks entries around high-impact events and refuses to trade above a spread threshold, which reduces that exposure — it does not remove it. A position already open when a gap occurs is subject to the gap, and a stop loss is not a guarantee of the exit price.
What automation does not fix
Automation removes hesitation, revenge trading and the trades you take because you are bored. It does not remove market risk, it does not know what will happen next, and it cannot make a losing month into a winning one. A strategy that worked for six months can stop working when the market regime changes — the engine benches strategies that decay, but it can only do that after the losses that reveal the decay have already happened.
It also cannot protect you from yourself. The most common way customers lose money with this software is raising the risk percentage after a good week, or disabling the daily loss lock because it stopped them trading on a day they wanted to trade. Both of those are one settings change away at all times.
What we are, and what we are not
Tech Kick sells software. We are not a broker, not a fund, not an investment adviser and not a signal service. We do not hold your money, we never have access to your trading account, and we do not manage anything on your behalf — the software runs on your machine, against your own broker login, under settings you control.
Nothing on this website is financial, investment, legal or tax advice, and nothing here is a recommendation to trade any instrument. You are responsible for determining whether trading leveraged products is appropriate for you and whether it is permitted where you live. Regulations covering retail leveraged trading and offshore brokers differ by country and change; check your own jurisdiction before you fund an account. In the United States in particular, retail traders cannot open the offshore accounts this bot is tuned for — see the eligibility article for the route that does work.
Only trade money you can afford to lose
Not money you need this month. Not borrowed money, not a committee's money, not money that is doing another job. Trading capital should be capital whose total loss would be disappointing rather than damaging. If the amount you are considering does not meet that description, the honest recommendation is to not fund a live account at all.