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MT5 · 12-month license · Single algorithm
One algorithm. Twelve months.
One algorithm. Twelve months.
Five gates between research and your account.
Stenor Lab researches a roster of 17 anonymized Expert Advisors for MetaTrader 5. You buy one license — get one algorithm — for twelve months from first activation. The license binds to one MT5 account on first run; rebinding is manual, case-by-case. 16 of 17 algorithms in the roster are backed by real-data backtests on broker-native OHLCV; 1 byte-identical alias was dropped during verification rather than double-counted. No bootcamps. No discretionary trades. No performance promises. No personal recommendations. Software, not advice.
Backtest equity — historical, cost-realistic, hypothetical
+102.02%/ Sharpe 2.08 · backtest
16 of 17 EAs verified · 1 byte-identical alias dropped
Hypothetical backtest result. Not live trading. Past performance — backtested or live — is not indicative of future results. CFDs are complex instruments and come with a high risk of losing money rapidly due to leverage. A majority of retail investor accounts lose money trading CFDs.
2024-Q2
1,358 trades · 0.25% risk/trade
2026-Q2
The retail trader's deal is broken.
You bought the course. You took the bootcamp. Years passed. The "system" you were sold was a discretionary feeling and a Discord channel. Account drawdowns from emotional execution destroyed the math before you ever found an edge.
The learning curve is years.
Reading charts, reading order flow, reading yourself — by the time you've put in the screen hours, your starting capital is gone twice over. Time is the cost nobody prices in.
Discretion destroys accounts.
You see the setup. You hesitate. You revenge-trade. You move stops. The strategy doesn't fail — execution does. Human psychology is the unhedged short in every retail account.
Most "signals" are noise.
Paid groups, copy-trading rooms, influencer alerts — survivorship bias dressed as a service. No cost model, no slippage, no risk overlay. A feed of vibes you pay monthly to consume.
Software, not a course. One algorithm. Twelve months. One install.
Stenor Lab researches a roster of 17 anonymized Expert Advisors — referenced internally as EA 01 through EA 17 — spanning index and FX markets, long and short. You buy one license for one algorithm, valid twelve months from first activation. The license binds to one MT5 account on first run. The algorithm does not consult you. It does not ask for confirmation. It does its job, logs every trade, and respects the kill-switch.
- Fully automatic executionNo human hand on the trigger. Entries, exits, sizing, stops — handled by the EA.
- Parameterizable, with safe defaultsRisk per trade, total exposure, broker tolerances, news filter — all exposed. Defaults are conservative.
- Long and short, across categoriesFX majors and indices — directional and mean-reverting families running side by side.
- Built for prop-firm rule setsDrawdown-aware sizing aligned with FTMO Swing-style daily and overall drawdown limits.
From research to live, one straight line.
No mystique. Every EA passes through the same five gates before it is allowed to touch real capital. If a strategy fails any gate, it goes back to the bench — or it is killed.
01 · Research
Research
Hypothesis is written down. Expected behaviour, failure modes, market regime fit. Documented before code.
02 · Backtest
Cost-realistic backtest
Execution costs, spread, commission and slippage included. Walk-forward and out-of-sample. No curve-fitting to one regime.
03 · Portfolio
Portfolio fit
Correlation against the existing roster is measured. The EA earns its share only if it diversifies — not if it duplicates.
04 · Demo
Demo
Forward-tested on a real broker demo with live-feed conditions. Logs are kept verbatim. Anomalies are investigated, not averaged.
05 · Live
Live
Released to live with conservative sizing. Public live reporting begins after a sufficient sample. Until then: silence.
A research roster of 17 EAs · 16 verified on real-data backtests · 1 alias dropped. You license one of them, for twelve months. The roster itself grows and evolves.
Stenor Lab is not a static EA file you buy once and run forever. Your license covers in-place updates to your algorithm during the twelve-month term. If your algorithm is retired during that period (because it fails a deflation re-test), you receive a replacement of equivalent grade for the remainder of your term. Seventeen is what survives our gates today — not a marketing limit, not a roadmap promise. Markets shift, regimes turn over, edges decay. The research is paid to stay current.
01 · Research
New ideas
Hypotheses are written down before code: expected behaviour, failure modes, market regime fit.
02 · Validate
Strict 5-gate filter
Deflated Sharpe Ratio ≥ 0.95 · PBO ≤ 0.50 · block-bootstrap median Sharpe ≥ 0.50 · OOS Sharpe > 0 · White's Reality Check p ≤ 0.05. Fail any gate, return to the bench. No exceptions.
03 · Monitor
Live observation
Every active EA is checked against its expected statistical profile. Regime decay and out-of-sample drift are watched, not assumed away.
04 · Refine
Transparent updates
Parameters are revised when conditions warrant — published with notes on what changed and why. Never silently.
05 · Retire / Add
Lineup changes
EAs whose edge can no longer be defended on fresh data are retired publicly. New EAs enter only after passing every gate the originals did.
What you license
The current portfolio — not last year's snapshot.
When it changes
When the data demands it. Not on a marketing calendar.
How you find out
Update notes describing what changed, why, and what we measured.
What the math actually looks like.
Below: the aggregated portfolio equity curve from the cost-realistic backtest on the 16 EAs that have completed real-data verification (out of 17 on the active roster). 24 months, uniform 0.25% of end-of-day balance per trade on $100,000 starting capital, FTMO Demo Swing realistic costs (per-asset spread + commission + slippage detailed below). 1 byte-identical alias was dropped during verification rather than double-counted; it is not included in any aggregate on this page. These are backtest numbers, not live live-money numbers. We tell you the difference because the difference matters.
COST MODEL · per asset class
FX majors: 0.5 pip half-spread + 0.3 pip slippage
Gold: half-spread + slippage modelled at FTMO-typical levels
US equity indices: half-spread + slippage modelled at FTMO-typical levels
Commission: $3.50 per side per standard lot, where modelled
Numbers benchmarked against FTMO MT5 Swing rate card (2026-02 update). Costs are applied at trade close on the per-EA pnl_baseline before daily-balance compounding.
Honest framing. The figures above are hypothetical, sourced from a cost-realistic backtest on the verified subset (16 of 17 EAs). 1 byte-identical alias was identified during verification and dropped rather than double-counted; its numbers are not aggregated into this curve. Spread, commission, and slippage are modelled per asset class; survivorship and look-ahead bias are not present in the data set. Portfolio backtests use broker-native MT5 OHLCV with documented per-asset-class substitutions where the data vendor's free tier blocks the native cash index feed; the substitution table is disclosed in the published methodology JSON. A live broker run is configured but not yet started; live numbers and methodology box will be published after the first statistically meaningful closed-trade window. We do not promise these numbers will repeat. Past performance — backtested or live — is not indicative of future results.
One install. 17 anonymized engines — the roster grows and evolves.
All 17 EAs in the active research roster; 16 currently backed by real-data backtests on broker-native MT5 OHLCV, 1 byte-identical alias dropped during verification. Instrument and strategy details remain proprietary.
Uniform allocation — 0.25% of end-of-day balance per trade, equal weighting across the active roster. Aggregate metrics on this page are computed from the 16 verified EAs only; the 1 dropped alias does not contribute synthetic returns to any public number.
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The questions you should be asking.
If something here reads as evasive, it is because the honest answer is "we don't know yet" — and we would rather say that than invent a number.
Do I need a VPS to run this?
Yes. The EAs are designed to run 24/5 alongside the FX/CFD market clock. A low-latency VPS in a data centre near your broker's MT5 server is required. Any reputable Forex VPS provider works; we publish a recommended provider list before launch.
Which brokers are supported?
Any MT5 broker that allows automated trading and has tight, stable spreads on the relevant asset categories. A vetted broker shortlist will be published [TBD]. We do not receive introducing-broker rebates from any broker on the list.
Is this aligned with the FTMO Swing rule set?
The default risk profile is built to operate inside FTMO Swing-style daily and overall drawdown limits — including overnight and weekend exposure. The EAs do not require restricted instruments. Final compatibility is the trader's responsibility and depends on the prop firm's current rule version.
What happens during high-volatility news periods?
A configurable news filter pauses entries around scheduled high-impact releases. Open positions are managed by the EA's own exit logic — the filter governs new exposure, not legacy exposure. In extreme volatility, expect wider effective spreads and the possibility of slippage beyond modelled assumptions.
What's the refund window?
Refund terms will be published in full before checkout opens [TBD]. Software is licenced, not an investment product; refund eligibility is governed by EU consumer-software rules.
How sensitive is performance to latency?
The strategies in the roster are not high-frequency; they are not destroyed by 50–150 ms of round-trip latency. They are destroyed by minutes-long disconnections, which is why VPS is non-optional.
How should I think about drawdown?
The reported max drawdown is -7.21% in the cost-realistic backtest of the verified 16-of-17-EA subset. Live drawdown will, at some point, exceed the backtested figure — that is statistically expected, not a failure. Position sizing is built so that exceeding it is not catastrophic, only uncomfortable. Past performance — backtested or live — is not indicative of future results.
How difficult is the MT5 setup?
Two files into the MT5 data folder, attach to the dedicated chart, enable AutoTrading, set risk-per-trade. A written and video walkthrough ships with the software. Expected first-time setup is under 30 minutes.
What's the minimum capital required?
Effective minimums depend on broker contract sizes and the risk-per-trade you select. A working figure will be published before launch [TBD]. Below the published minimum, the position-size rounding becomes lossy and the strategy math breaks.
What happens if a strategy stops working?
Every active EA is monitored against the statistical profile it earned in validation — trade frequency, hit rate, average loss, drawdown shape. When out-of-sample behaviour degrades persistently — not on a single losing streak, but on a measured run that falls outside expected variance — the EA is paused and reassessed. From there it is either re-validated against fresh data, refined and re-released with public notes, or retired. Replacements only enter the portfolio after passing the same gates the originals did. Past performance still does not guarantee future results — the difference is that the portfolio is paid to stay current rather than sold once and abandoned.
Will I receive ongoing updates?
Yes. Updates are published when an EA's research, cost model, or portfolio fit warrants a revision — not on a marketing schedule. Update notes describe what changed and why. EAs that fail post-launch review are retired publicly.
Is there a kill-switch?
Yes. A portfolio-level kill-switch halts new entries instantly and is exposed as a single EA input. Open-position handling is configurable: flatten-now or run-down-to-stops. The kill-switch is a feature, not an emergency hatch — review your settings before relying on it.
Will my data and trades be visible to Stenor Lab?
No. The EAs run inside your MT5 instance, on your VPS, against your broker account. We do not have access to your account, your credentials, or your trades. Optional anonymous telemetry can be disabled in EA settings.
Is this financial advice?
No. Stenor Lab is a software vendor. The Software is not investment advice, a personal recommendation, portfolio management, reception or transmission of orders on behalf of clients, or any other regulated investment service under MiFID II (Directive 2014/65/EU, Article 4(1)(4)). Stenor Lab is not authorised by the Komisja Nadzoru Finansowego (KNF), the FCA, BaFin, AMF, CySEC, the SEC, the CFTC, or the NFA. We do not assess your knowledge, experience, financial situation, or risk tolerance. Each user is solely responsible for evaluating whether the Software is suitable for their own circumstances and for every trade the Software produces in their own MetaTrader 5 terminal. Read the disclaimers below — they are intentionally plain.
How do I buy?
Click Get access at the top or bottom of this page. Checkout is hosted on Whop (€800 one-time, twelve-month license). After payment you receive a license key, the algorithm download, and an automatic invite to the research-feed Discord. There is no auto-renewal — at month 12 the license expires and you choose whether to re-purchase.
Free tool — Stenor Lab Pulse.
A visual helper for spotting volume-profile rejection setups on any TradingView chart. Free, no signup required for download (signup gets you new tools as they ship). Works on any timeframe, any instrument.
What Pulse draws
- Prior-session VAH, POC, VAL in brand violet.
- Faint fill across the prior value area.
- Profile-shape label per session — D-shape, P-shape, or b-shape.
- Violet candle border on bars that wick outside the prior VA and close back inside.
What Pulse fires
- TradingView alert at rejection at prior VAH.
- TradingView alert at rejection at prior VAL.
- Each alert text references the chart's ticker and interval — wire it to push, email, or webhook.
- No entries. No exits. No stops. No sizing. What you do with the signal is your decision.
Download for TradingView →
Pine v5 indicator · open source · drop straight into TradingView Pine Editor.
Visualization tool only. Not investment advice. Trade at your own risk.
The honest split. Pulse is a visual tool to help you see what we look at — prior-session value-area edges and the bars that fail to accept outside them. The execution craft — when to enter, where to stop, how to size, what regime to skip — is what the paid MT5 algorithm handles for you. Pulse is the visual learning artifact; the algorithm is the execution.
Required reading
Risk, regulation, and what we are not.
Five disclosures, each one a single paragraph. The full legal pages are linked from each card.
RISK 01 · ESMA-style risk warning
Trading leveraged FX, CFDs, and index derivatives carries a high level of risk and may result in losses that exceed your initial deposit. The majority of retail investor accounts lose money trading leveraged products. Algorithmic execution does not reduce market risk — it removes hesitation, not exposure. You should not trade with capital you cannot afford to lose.
RISK 02 · Past performance
All numbers shown on this page are derived from a historical simulation conducted in April 2026. They are net of FTMO-typical spreads and commissions but remain a backtest. Past performance does not predict future returns. No representation is made that any account will, or is likely to, achieve profits or losses similar to those shown.
RISK 03 · Software, not investment advice
Stenor Lab is a software tool. We do not manage funds, do not execute trades on behalf of clients, do not provide personalized investment advice, and do not act as a portfolio manager, broker, dealer, fund manager, market-maker, or signal provider regulated under MiFID II (Directive 2014/65/EU). Buying a license grants you the right to run one Stenor Lab algorithm on your own MT5 installation, for twelve months from first activation.
RISK 04 · Data & privacy (GDPR)
Checkout and license issuance are handled by Whop; we receive only the email address and Whop user ID needed to issue your license and grant Discord access — never sold, never shared with third parties beyond what payment processing requires, never used for behavioural advertising. We use Umami, a privacy-friendly EU-hosted analytics service, to count anonymized page views — no cookies, no fingerprinting, no personal data collected. You can request deletion at any time.
RISK 05 · Suitability is your responsibility
Whether Stenor Lab is appropriate for your account size, risk tolerance, prop-firm rule set, jurisdiction, or tax position is your decision and your responsibility. We provide a software tool; we do not assess your financial situation, investment objectives, or experience. Stenor Lab is not offered to residents of the United States, Canada, or any region where local regulation prohibits retail leveraged derivatives.
Live, not theoretical
The same algorithm running right now.
An FTMO Swing-style demo account publishes equity every ~5 minutes from a live MT5 VPS. The 24-month backtest above is the historical claim; the panel below is the live test of it.
License available now
One algorithm. Twelve months. From €400.
Single-algorithm MetaTrader 5 license. Bound to one MT5 account on first activation. Five-gate validated. Real-data lineage. Includes research-feed Discord access and in-place algorithm updates during the twelve-month term.
Launch pricing · First 8 spots at €400, next 8 at €600, then €800 standard. Same license, same expiry — early cohorts pay less. Stock cascades automatically at checkout.
€400 / €600 / €800 (cohort-based) · One-time payment · 12-month license · No auto-renewal · Bound to one MT5 account on first activation · 14-day refund per EU consumer-software rules (waived on download) · Terms · Privacy