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 these test periods, an account running this configuration was worth 27.4% less than its previous peak. If you cannot watch more than a quarter 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.
These two are measured differently and are not directly comparable: 2026 is seven separate monthly tests, 2025 is one unbroken run. Compared like for like — 2026 run unbroken returned +27.8% at a 27.4% drawdown and a 36% win rate — the win rate held on unseen data but the return did not, with the unseen period making roughly three times as much. Two runs of one configuration differing that far is a reason to plan on the weaker one, which is what every figure on this site quotes.
A backtest is not a forecast
Backtested on historical XAUUSD data with the Conservative profile applied at a flat 0.05 lot — not the default configuration a new install runs. Hypothetical results — not a projection of future returns, and not a live track record. Trading carries risk of loss.
Every figure we publish was measured on $1,000 of historical XAUUSD data, with spread charged and the shipped default configuration. The two windowed periods were sized at a flat 0.01 lot and are quoted in dollars only — dividing them by the starting balance mixes two different sizing models and overstates the return. The continuous run is the one measured at 1.5% per trade, which is why it is the only place we quote a percentage. 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 $1,000 the risk settings stop meaning anything
The bot will trade from $100 and we do not block it — but $1,000 is the number to plan on, because it is the balance every figure we publish was measured at. Two things change below it. The broker's smallest trade on gold is 0.01 lots, costing roughly $9-12.50 of risk, so on a $100 account that is about 10% per trade rather than the 1.5% you set and position sizing stops responding to risk at all. And the Conservative profile trades a flat 0.05 lot that does not shrink as the balance does: about 5.4% of a $1,000 account on a typical trade, 7.7% at $700, and roughly half the account at $100. Simulated from $100 across 2026 the shipped configuration still drew down 36%, and less conservative settings did far worse.
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.