What Night Hawk Is
Night Hawk by the DaVinci FX Group (product page) is an Asian-session EA for MT4 that has been sold since around 2019 — directly through the vendor's site, not the MQL5 market. Entries come from Bollinger Bands and CCI, after which an ATR-based grid with rising lots builds the basket; four exit filters, a news filter and a pair filter are meant to limit drawdowns. The vendor himself calls it a "modified martingale".
What makes Night Hawk special is not the strategy but the evidence: the same IC Markets account has been monitored on four platforms in parallel since 12 February 2019 — MQL5 signal, Myfxbook, SignalStart and FX Blue. Our EA-Scout audit re-checked on 1 September 2026: the reported profit of $5,416.74 is identical on every monitor. The account is real, and it has been alive for six and a half years.
We have run Night Hawk on our own live account since 6 July 2026 (RoboForex ECN-2, MT4), on five pairs with small lots. Night Hawk shares that account with a second EA — so we count only the trades carrying its magic number.
The Numbers: Our Account and the Long-Term Track
Our account, Night Hawk trades only (as of 20 Sept 2026, 74 days): 77 closed trades, win rate 72.7%, profit factor 2.86, +$100.16 net — about +5% on the account base, +2% per month. AUDCAD carries the lion's share at +$55, then GBPAUD (+$18), NZDCAD (+$14), GBPCAD (+$11), EURGBP (+$2). Largest single loss −$4.93, largest win +$12.89, longest losing streak 3 trades. Lot size rose within baskets from 0.01 to 0.04 — so the martingale progression is active, but harmless so far. We cannot measure a clean per-EA floating loss on the shared account; the account-level figure (−44.8%) cannot be attributed to Night Hawk alone, and we deliberately do not report it as his.
The long-term track is the real basis of our rating — and it cuts both ways. The vendor advertises +1,094.64% at 15.3% drawdown, profit factor 2.03 and a 74% win rate. Independently recalculated:
- Drawdown 55.6% (SignalStart) / 55.4% (MQL5, by equity) / 41.4% (Myfxbook) — three to four times the vendor's figure depending on method
- Profit factor 1.68 (SignalStart) or 1.81 (MQL5) — no platform confirms the 2.03
- Sharpe 0.10–0.12, Myfxbook Z-score −20
- The +1,094% is a percentage artefact: $5,742 of deposits, $5,301 of withdrawals, +110% in absolute terms per Myfxbook over six and a half years
Honestly calculated, that comes to roughly +17% per year at a drawdown above 50%. For a grid that is not bad survival — but it is not a 15%-drawdown strategy.
Why "Avoid" Rather Than "Yellow"
Under our methodology an EA with an independently documented drawdown above 50% cannot be rated better than red until a calm, long-running account proves a calibrated, safe way to run it. Our own account is too young for that (74 days). Add the transparency gap: a vendor who advertises 15% drawdown while his own monitors show 41–56% gets a 2.8 from us — not because of the number, but because of the difference. What that means for copiers is explained in our guide to grid and martingale EAs.
Cost & Usability
$199 (now $275 on the product page) with lifetime updates is fair; payment via PayPal or WebMoney, delivery by e-mail against the MT4 account number, no refunds. The money management picks lots by deposit — and exactly that automation is where you should intervene manually on a martingale basket: smaller than the vendor suggests. MT4 only; an ECN broker with tight cross spreads is a prerequisite (EA broker comparison).
Who It Is (Not) For
Suitable for traders who deliberately run a six-and-a-half-year documented Asian-session grid at half the vendor's risk, plan for drawdowns above 30% and treat the EA as a small building block in an EA portfolio.
Not suitable for prop-firm accounts, for anyone who takes the vendor's 15% drawdown figure as a planning number, and for MT5 users (there is no version).
Verdict
Night Hawk is a rare case: a grid with six and a half years of real, quadruply documented track — and a vendor who understates that track's risk figure by a factor of three. Our 3.2/5 and the red verdict are not a judgement on profitability (that is documented) but on the relationship between design, measured drawdown and marketing. We keep running it — small, watched, and knowing that one day the basket will not come back.