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Dark Nova by Dark EAs is a grid scalper on the three AUD/NZD/CAD crosses — and one of the few grid EAs that stayed calm on three separate accounts: +46.4% in 266 days on the ATS live account at no more than 10% drawdown, plus two funded accounts at 5–6% floating loss. A grid is still a grid: ATS itself files it under martingale, and the three pairs fall together under stress.
+Three separate accounts at three brokers, all at 10% drawdown or less — rare consistency for a grid
++46.4% in 266 days on the live account, PF 3.96 on 254 trades
+Four indicators filter entries instead of a blind grid start; grid spacing, lot steps and max positions all adjustable
+MT4 and MT5, set files per pair
–Grid recovery remains the core — ATS itself lists Dark Nova under “martingale”
–AUDCAD, AUDNZD and NZDCAD are strongly correlated: a commodity shock hits all three baskets at once
–266 days is not a full cycle — the calm figures come from a phase without a big AUD/NZD trend
–Do not run it next to Waka Waka, Dark Titan or other AUD/NZD/CAD grids — that stacks the same bet
Drawdown profile
How deep did this EA go under water? We deliberately plot drawdown and not an equity curve: a backtest curve always ends in the top right, but drawdown decides whether an account survives. Every bar comes from a real account, none from a backtest.
Our measurementmeasured by usFingerprint · 147 days · 1 account−0.68 %
50 % = pain threshold (needs +100 % to recover)Scale to 60 %
How the strategy trades
A schematic simulation of the strategy type we assign Dark Nova to — not a replica of this EA and not real price data.
Realised
How it works
As with the grid, a position is added every 20 pips – but with a ×2 multiplier: 0.10 → 0.20 → 0.40 → 0.80 lots.
The big positions drag the average down, close to the lowest entry.
That is why a small bounce is already enough to profit. The catch: volume doubles at every level and the floating loss grows even faster – one level too many, and a single basket wipes out the gains of many before it.
What we check
What we check on real martingale EAs: the multiplier, the maximum number of levels and the volume at the last level relative to the account. A smooth equity curve is not a quality signal here.
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.
Verified live / funded accounts
Real accounts AlgoTradingSpace publicly links for this EA (Myfxbook-fed). Max floating loss is the most honest risk figure — how deep open positions ran into the red at their worst.
Account
Gain
Avg mo.
PF
Max floating loss
Age
Trades
Broker
Live
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285d
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Black Bull Group Limited
Funded (Instant)
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277d
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iFunds Ltd.
Funded (Instant)
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205d
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MyFX Markets PTY Ltd.
Part of an ATS portfolio with: Dark Algo, Dark Titan · Dark Algo, Dark Venus — mind correlation inside the portfolio.
What Dark Nova Is
Dark Nova by vendor Dark EAs trades the three commodity-currency crosses AUDCAD, AUDNZD and NZDCAD on M15. Entries come from a filter of four indicators — Bollinger Bands, moving averages, ADX and RSI — and a grid manages the trade: if the market runs against the first position, the EA adds more and closes the basket once the average entry is in profit. AlgoTradingSpace sells it for $499 one-time (ATS product page) and files it under “martingale” itself. That is a more honest drawer than the marketing's “hybrid scalper”.
The Live Data: Three Accounts, Three Brokers
What sets Dark Nova apart from the grid crowd is the evidence. ATS runs it on three dedicated accounts at three brokers:
Account
Runtime
Return
Max floating loss
Live, BlackBull ($1,000)
266 days
+46.4%
-10.0% (max DD 10.3%)
Funded, MyFX Markets
186 days
+25.4%
-6.1%
Funded, iFunds
261 days
+14.9%
-5.2%
As of 30.09.2026, read on the ATS product page and in the ATS trading statistics. The live account shows a profit factor of 3.96 over 254 trades and +4.8% per month on average. A grid that was never more than a tenth underwater (open) on three accounts is unusual — most grids in our catalogue show 30% and more.
We track a fourth account ourselves: on an iFunds account that Dark Nova shares with FX Proctor Max we isolated the Dark Nova trades by magic number. Over 147 days: profit factor 2.70, +1.05% a month on average, own drawdown just 0.68% (Waterline fingerprint, as of 22.09.2026).
Strategy & Risk
The calm figures do not change the design. A grid basket does not cap the loss per trade; it waits for price to come back. That works on AUD/NZD/CAD crosses because they range for long stretches — and it fails when a cross tips into a real trend. Because all three pairs hang on the same commodity and rate data, such a trend rarely comes alone. That is exactly the scenario 266 days have not shown yet.
That is why strategy risk sits at 3.6 rather than the 4.0 the drawdown alone would give: the design caps the mark, not the calm so far. If you run Dark Nova, use the calibrated ATS set files, do not share the account with other AUD/NZD/CAD grids (portfolio guide) and pick a broker with tight cross spreads (EA broker comparison). Why grids look different live than in a backtest is explained in the guide to grid & martingale risks.
Who It Is (Not) For
Suitable for traders who deliberately want a grid on commodity-currency crosses, budget at least $1,000 per account and run Dark Nova as their only AUD/NZD/CAD building block.
Not suitable for accounts that already run another grid on these pairs, or for anyone who concludes from 266 calm days that the basket will never go deep underwater.
Verdict
At 4.0/5 Dark Nova is one of the best-evidenced grid EAs in the ATS catalogue: three accounts, three brokers, no more than 10% drawdown and a live return of +46% in nine months. The score stays below 4.5 because the design remains a grid and the three pairs fall together under stress. How we weight is set out in the methodology.
Frequently asked questions
Which markets does Dark Nova trade?
AUDCAD, AUDNZD, NZDCAD. Several instruments only spread risk while they do not share a driver — correlated pairs go down together when it matters.
Which platform does Dark Nova run on?
MT4/MT5. Continuous operation needs a VPS, because a sleeping machine leaves open positions unattended: VPS providers compared.
What does Dark Nova cost?
$499 (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.
How large is Dark Nova's drawdown?
Across the accounts we see for this EA the largest decline is 0.7% — measured on our own account, counting only this EA's trades. That is the figure to size positions against, not the calm average. Where we hold further accounts or a longer vendor track, their numbers are above in the review: position sizing and risk per trade.
Does Dark Nova 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 Nova any good?
Our grade: 4.0 out of 5, traffic light green — usable. 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 Nova?
Yes. We run this EA ourselves and measure its trades in isolation (285 days). The figures in this review come from those accounts, not from vendor backtests.
