I trade prop firm accounts with bots, and this site is where I publish what they actually do.

Web dev based in Switzerland, father of 2. I trade prop firm accounts with bots from a server in Falkenstein, and document the journey here as it unfolds. Dashboard syncs hourly from MetaTrader 5, no curated screenshots. Follow along and you might pick up a thing or two.

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Funded capital

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Funded 1+8.72%$54'361

Funded 2+2.02%$204'044

Funded 3+1.79%$101'787

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I'm Tom.

Web dev based in Switzerland, father of 2. I placed my first trades by hand back in 2017. In 2025 I built what this site documents: a prop firm setup run by Expert Advisors on MetaTrader 5. I've been at it since.

I only trade with Expert Advisors on MetaTrader 5. I don't write them. I buy them, test them, run them on real funded accounts, and pay attention to which ones survive past the third payout.

The first payouts came in. I moved that capital into a real money account of my own, and I'm growing it the same way I grow the funded ones, one careful month at a time.

Not a fund, not a coach. Just one guy with a server in Falkenstein running a small set of EAs on accounts I had to pass for.

Not a signal service. Not a mentorship. Not a Discord.

Every account, every balance, every drawdown.

Synced hourly from MT5. Terminated accounts stay visible with full history. Demo servers are labelled and obvious. The dashboard is the proof, open it any time, the numbers I see are the numbers you see.

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Every Expert Advisor I’ve run on funded and real-money accounts.

Named, dated, with the live profit and drawdown attached. Praise and criticism in the same paragraph where it’s earned. No reviews of EAs I haven’t personally run for at least three payouts.

Read the EA reviews

The firms I trade with, and the ones I won’t.

Rules that bite. Payout speed. The small print most reviews miss because most reviewers don’t actually trade the firm. Affiliate links where I have them, same review either way.

Read the prop firm reviews

Where the real-money capital actually lives.

Regulation, spreads, execution, EA friendliness, deposit and withdrawal reality. The brokers I actually trade through, scored on the things that matter when your own money sits there.

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The operating manual for running EAs on funded accounts.

Long-form, chapter by chapter. The prop firm cheat sheet, the EA selection rubric, the parts of the job nobody writes down. First chapter is free, the rest come with the full edition.

Open the Playbook

Recent writing.

All posts

Prop firm review

FTMO review 2026: where the rules actually bite

I've passed FTMO and taken real payouts. The rules, the drawdown calculation, the OANDA acquisition, the 1% slippage controversy, and where FTMO actually fits.

May 11Read

EA review

Gold Atlas EA review 2026: Jimmy Eriksson's 5-level XAUUSD breakout

Read the manual, watched the live signal, scanned 21 reviews. Multi-entry breakout system for gold, designed to pair with Prop Firm Gold EA in a portfolio.

May 11Read

Broker review

TMGM review 2026: the ASIC broker where my personal capital actually lives

I trade my personal capital through TMGM with Expert Advisors. Regulation, spreads, commissions, execution, EA friendliness, deposits, withdrawals, and where it actually fits.

May 11Read

What people ask first.

Why won't you name the EAs you run on your own accounts?

Two reasons. Most EA vendors have terms that limit public results sharing. Posting account-by-EA mappings also gives anyone enough to copy the trades and trip the prop firm's correlation filter, which puts my payouts at risk. The reviews section names every EA I've tested.

How do I know this isn't a demo server feeding the dashboard?

The MT5 server name on each deal record (live ICMarkets, live FTMO server, etc.) is visible on the per-account page. Demo servers are labelled MetaQuotes-Demo and they look obvious next to a live one.

$101k funded is small. Are you actually doing this seriously?

Yes, just not on borrowed scale. One funded account at around $101k right now, plus two challenges in progress for another $204k, and a small real-money account I treat as the canary. I scale by passing more challenges, not by faking bigger.

What happens if you blow all your accounts next month?

You'll see it on the homepage the same day. The dashboard is set up to show terminated accounts with their full history, not hide them. If I selectively deleted bad outcomes the site stops being useful.

Are you running the same EA across multiple firms?

Different EAs on different accounts. No copy-trading between firms. Each account has its own setfile and its own logic, and I don't run anything I haven't read the rule book on first.

Are there affiliate links on this site?

Some of the prop firm and EA reviews include affiliate links where I have them. The reviews get written the same way regardless of whether the link exists.

Tom

I trade prop firm accounts with bots, and this site is where I publish what they actually do.

I'm Tom.

Every account, every balance, every drawdown.

Every Expert Advisor I’ve run on funded and real-money accounts.

The firms I trade with, and the ones I won’t.

Where the real-money capital actually lives.

The operating manual for running EAs on funded accounts.

Recent writing.

FTMO review 2026: where the rules actually bite

Gold Atlas EA review 2026: Jimmy Eriksson's 5-level XAUUSD breakout

TMGM review 2026: the ASIC broker where my personal capital actually lives

What people ask first.

One email a week. The ledger and what changed.

Something bigis coming.

Something big
is coming.