EA review · Updated
Dark Moon EA Review
- Strategy
- Grid, Scalper
- Live return / max. DD
- no public live account
- Price
- Free
grid/scalping on EURUSD/GBPUSD/NZDUSD by Dark EAs. ATS-vetted; no publicly linked live account — rating from strategy audit.
How we checked
- Reviewed by
- Pitt Petruschkeruns AlgoVerdict · MethodologyNo public live data
- Last checked
- facts, score and evidence as of this date
- Evidence (1)
- Product page (AlgoTradingSpace) · links the live/funded accounts (Myfxbook-fed)
- Changes
No changes documented yet.
AlgoVerdict score
Weighted from 6 criteria — weighting in percent.
- Live track record25%
- 3.0
- Strategy risk20%
- 3.4
- Transparency20%
- 3.4
- Value for money15%
- 4.0
- Usability10%
- 3.8
- Broker independence10%
- 2.5
- Strategy
- grid, scalping
- Market
- EURUSD, GBPUSD, NZDUSD, USDCHF
- Platform
- MT4/MT5
- Price
- Free
- Vendor
- Dark EAs
- Source
- AlgoTradingSpace
- Verified live track
- No continuous public live account
- Calibrated setfile, onboarding & support via ATS
- No continuous public live account — returns only partly verifiable
- Grid/martingale: calm curve, but tail risk on a trend break
What Dark Moon EA is
Dark Moon EA by Dark EAs is a grid, scalping EA on EURUSD, GBPUSD, NZDUSD, USDCHF (MT4/MT5), sold via AlgoTradingSpace. We classify it independently — by strategy risk, verified live track, transparency and value, not by vendor promises.
Live results & track record
The crux here: AlgoTradingSpace links no continuous public live account for this EA. An equity curve from backtests alone says little about real money — slippage, spread and execution are missing, and parameters can be fitted to the past until the curve looks perfect. Without a linked account we treat every return claim with scepticism; the EA is ATS-vetted, but the rating stays deliberately cautious.
Strategy & risk
The grid, scalping approach sets the risk profile. Grid/martingale systems often show a suspiciously straight equity curve — losses are absorbed by averaging in until one trend blows up the basket. A too-smooth curve here is a warning sign, not a seal of quality. What AlgoTradingSpace adds is calibration with a fixed risk cap instead of the aggressive vendor default — exactly the ceiling a grid without a hard stop-loss needs.
Cost & usability
Price sits at Free. Via AlgoTradingSpace you get a setfile, onboarding and support — the EA doesn't have to run blind on the vendor default.
Who it is (not) for
Suitable for traders who check the live signal carefully themselves and run the EA calibrated via ATS (with a risk cap) and budget it as *one* building block. Not suitable for small accounts without a buffer or for anyone who mistakes a smooth backtest curve for a guarantee.
Verdict
Dark Moon EA lands at 3.3/5 — with reservations. Until a live account is linked, the rating stays deliberately cautious.
How the strategy trades
A schematic simulation of the strategy type we assign Dark Moon EA to — not a replica of this EA and not real price data.
How it works
- The EA buys and lays a grid below: one more position every 20 pips, always 0.10 lots.
- All positions share one target just above the average price.
- Because they are all the same size, the average sits exactly in the middle: halfway back is break-even, and 5 pips above that the whole basket closes in profit.
- What the animation does not show: if price keeps running against the basket, the floating loss grows with every level – without a stop there is no built-in exit.
What we check
What we check on real grid EAs: the maximum floating loss on the live account, not the closed drawdown – and whether there is a hard stop for the whole basket.
Demonstration values: a simulated EURUSD path with 0.10 lots and $10,000 starting capital, deliberately favourable – every basket and every trend works out here. Not a real trading strategy, not a backtest and not investment advice.
Live track record
AlgoTradingSpace currently links no public live or funded account for this EA. The rating therefore rests on our strategy audit and ATS vetting, not on a verified account — and stays correspondingly cautious.
Frequently asked questions
- Which markets does Dark Moon EA trade?
EURUSD, GBPUSD, NZDUSD, USDCHF. Several instruments only spread risk while they do not share a driver — correlated pairs go down together when it matters.
- Which platform does Dark Moon EA run on?
MT4/MT5. Continuous operation needs a VPS, because a sleeping machine leaves open positions unattended: VPS providers compared.
- What does Dark Moon EA cost?
Free (as of our last check). We take prices from the vendor, ATS or MQL5 product page, not from marketing copy — that often quotes different figures than the buy button.
- Does Dark Moon EA use grid or martingale?
Yes — the design is Grid + Scalper. That means further orders are added when price runs against an open position, and there is usually no hard per-trade stop-loss. Such systems stay quiet for a long time and then take the loss all at once. How that works and how to spot the dangerous variant is in our guide to grid and martingale EAs.
- Is Dark Moon EA any good?
Our grade: 3.3 out of 5, traffic light yellow — with reservations. It comes from six criteria, weighted most heavily towards the verified live track record and strategy risk. We rate from real accounts, not vendor backtests, and no EA vendor pays for ratings — the weighting is public in our methodology.
- Is there a verified live track for Dark Moon EA?
No — we hold no independently checked live track for this specific EA. What we can place is the design and the vendor context. Without a documented account we rate conservatively; how we weight that is in our methodology.