About

Hey, I’m Tom.

Web dev based in Switzerland, father of 2. I trade prop firm accounts with bots, and this site is where I publish what they actually do.

Running this since 2025 · last update Jun 6, 2026

Who I am

The short version.

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. Today I trade funded capital across accounts at FTMO, FundedNext, E8 Markets, Darwinex, and a handful of smaller firms.

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.

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.

What’s on this site

The numbers come straight from MT5.

Every funded account I run syncs from MetaTrader 5 to this site. The dashboard updates hourly. The numbers you see are the numbers I see, pulled from the broker’s API, timestamped, and not retouched.

Three things live here:

The dashboard

Every account, every balance, every drawdown.

The reviews

Expert Advisors actually running on these accounts. Praise and criticism in the same paragraph where it’s earned.

The playbook

Long-form operating manual for running EAs on funded accounts. Chapters ship as they’re written.

What it isn’t

Three things this is not.

Not a signal serviceNot a mentorshipNot a Discord

No paid placements. The prop firm reviews include affiliate links where I have them, and I write the review the same whether the link exists or not. If a firm I am affiliated with does something I would warn a friend about, I write that too.

No MyFXBook embeds. MyFXBook can be edited, paused, or merged across accounts to flatter the curve. The MetaTrader 5 API I read from cannot.

If you can’t see the API, you can’t see the trader.

A members’ area is in build. It will live on this site. It will not be a Discord.

Why I do it in public

Three reasons.

[ 01 ]

Accountability.

When the equity curve is on the homepage, I can't quietly switch EAs after a bad week and pretend I always ran the new one. It forces me to behave like a fund manager: slow changes, documented decisions, no rationalising after the fact.

[ 02 ]

Sanity-checking.

I'm one person. I have blind spots. A few hundred careful readers will spot operational risks I miss. Already have. The first time someone emailed me to point out that one of my EAs was over-leveraged for FTMO's daily loss rule, I disabled it the same hour. That email was worth more than a month of backtests.

[ 03 ]

The space is full of fakes.

The prop firm and EA space is full of cherry-picked screenshots. I'm not the first person running funded capital with EAs, but I'm trying to be one of the few who publishes what actually happens each week.

What’s next

What I’m building from here.

The playbook ships soon. The first chapter is already free. The full edition collects the chapters into a single ebook with the operating manual, the prop firm cheat sheet, and the EA selection rubric. The members’ area opens soon for readers who want the live setfile drops, the trade journal, and the monthly operations notes. The EA reviews section grows every quarter: one new EA reviewed in production every three months, on a real funded account, with the full data attached.

If any of that is interesting, the newsletter is the cheapest way to follow it. One email a week, the numbers and what changed.

Tom

Newsletter

One email a week. The ledger and what changed.

What changed on the dashboard, which firm rule almost cost me a payout, what I’m reading. A paragraph or two from the desk, never a sales pitch.

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