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Quantum StarMan Review

3.8Traffic light: with reservations⚡ Running live in our EA park
Strategy
Grid across multiple major pairs — correlated basket
Live return / max. DD
No live account tracked by us. Worst drawdown measured in other sources: 10.1%.
Price
$499.99
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Quantum StarMan product shot
Product shot by Valery Trading — marketing material, not evidence of performance.

Quantum StarMan by Valery Trading is a grid across five majors — and has run for 434 days on an account in our EA park: profit factor 1.76, +2.1% a month on average, own drawdown 10.1%. That is more evidence than the earlier version of this review knew. At $499.99 instead of from €1,000 it also costs only half as much. The correlated dollar basket remains the structural risk.

AlgoVerdict score

Weighted from 6 criteria — weighting in percent.

Live track record25%
4.5
Strategy risk20%
3.8
Transparency20%
3.6
Value for money15%
3.4
Usability10%
3.6
Broker independence10%
3.2
Open methodology

How we checked

Reviewed by
Pitt Petruschkeruns AlgoVerdict · MethodologyLive data from our EA park (Space Tracker)
Last checked
facts, score and evidence as of this date
Evidence (3)
  • Our own live account in our EA park · figures from the Space Tracker, no vendor material · retrieved
  • Our own measurement (Waterline fingerprint) · 1 account · 434 days · own drawdown 10.1%
  • Product page (AlgoTradingSpace) · links the live/funded accounts (Myfxbook-fed)
Changes

No changes documented yet.

Strategy type
Grid across multiple major pairs — correlated basket
Market
AUDUSD, EURAUD, EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD
Platform
MT5
Price
$499.99 (one-time, ATS product page 30.09.2026; previously from €1,000)
Vendor
Valery Trading
Risk rating
ATS: Medium — our read: elevated (grid basket across correlated majors)
Runs with us
yes — live account #77018171 (RoboForex) in our EA park, 434 days
Our live account (Waterline fingerprint, 22.09.2026)
PF 1.76 · win rate 76.6% · avg +2.09%/month · own drawdown 10.1% ($151.58) · lots 0.01–0.04 · 45 trades in the last 30 days
  • Established vendor (Valery Trading) with several long-lived products in the market
  • Spread across five major pairs rather than a single pair — in theory slightly broader than a single-pair grid
  • Own live evidence over 434 days: PF 1.76, +2.1%/month, 10.1% drawdown
  • Price halved: $499.99 instead of from €1,000
  • AlgoTradingSpace runs the EA on a calibrated live/funded account with a fixed risk cap instead of the vendor default — the only reliable ceiling we see here
  • Only one account as evidence — and a grid basket shows its risk rarely, then all at once
  • “Precision and risk controls” are vendor claims we cannot independently substantiate
  • Grid across multiple majors = correlated basket: EURUSD, GBPUSD, AUDUSD and USDCAD often move together under stress — the supposed diversification shrinks exactly when it matters
  • No public vendor signal; our account is the only long track we know of

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 · 434 days · 1 account−10.1 %
50 % = pain threshold (needs +100 % to recover)Scale to 60 %

How the strategy trades

A schematic simulation of the strategy type we assign Quantum StarMan to — not a replica of this EA and not real price data.

Realised

How it works

  1. The EA buys and lays a grid below: one more position every 20 pips, always 0.10 lots.
  2. All positions share one target just above the average price.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.

What Quantum StarMan Is

Quantum StarMan by Valery Trading (ATS page) is an MT5 grid robot that trades several major pairs (AUDUSD, EURAUD, EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD) at once. AlgoTradingSpace now sells it for $499.99 one-time (product page, 30.09.2026) — it used to cost from €1,000. For clarity: this is not the "Quantum Queen/Emperor" family by Bogdan Ion Puscasu — different vendor, different engine. We explicitly do not carry over their numbers to this product.

Strategy & Risk

A grid across five majors sounds like diversification but is, in practice, a correlated basket. EURUSD, GBPUSD, AUDUSD and USDCAD share the US dollar as a common denominator; in a sharp dollar move, several grids run against their positions and fill in parallel. The spread a multi-pair grid advertises is smallest in exactly the stress phase where you would need it. That is the structural tail risk of this strategy class; our guide to grid and martingale EAs and EA portfolio management lay out the correlation trap.

Valery Trading is an established vendor — that speaks for product upkeep, but says nothing about the real drawdown behaviour of this EA under live conditions.

What We Can Now Prove

The first version of this review (September 2026) said: no independent live track. That was incomplete. Quantum StarMan has been running for 434 days on a live account in our EA park (RoboForex, #77018171). Our Waterline fingerprint, which isolates this EA's trades by magic number, shows as of 22.09.2026:

  • profit factor 1.76, win rate 76.6%
  • +2.09% a month on average
  • own drawdown 10.1% ($151.58), lots between 0.01 and 0.04
  • 45 trades in the last 30 days — the EA is active

That lifts the track record from 2.8 to 4.5 and strategy risk to 3.8: a 10% drawdown in more than a year is calm for a multi-pair grid. We do not award the full mark for the measured value (4.0) because it is a single account and a basket across correlated majors only shows its risk in a sharp dollar move. The marketing's “precision and risk controls” remain a vendor claim; we know of no public vendor signal.

Who It Is (Not) For

Suitable for traders with at least $1,500–2,000 of capital looking for a calmly measured multi-pair grid, running small lots as on our account (0.01–0.04), with no other dollar-heavy EA next to it.

Not suitable for price-conscious buyers, for prop-firm accounts with hard max-DD rules, and for portfolios that already cover dollar-heavy majors via other EAs.

Verdict

Quantum StarMan gets 3.8/5 (earlier version: 2.05/5 in the text, which did not even match its own marks). The change comes from evidence, not goodwill: 434 days on our own live account at PF 1.76 and a 10.1% drawdown, plus a price halved to $499.99. What holds the score below 4 is the design — a grid basket across correlated dollar majors — and the fact that only one account carries the numbers. More on our rating logic in the methodology and alternatives in the EA marketplace.

Frequently asked questions

Which markets does Quantum StarMan trade?

AUDUSD, EURAUD, EURUSD, GBPUSD, USDCAD. Several instruments only spread risk while they do not share a driver — correlated pairs go down together when it matters.

Which platform does Quantum StarMan run on?

MT5. Continuous operation needs a VPS, because a sleeping machine leaves open positions unattended: VPS providers compared.

What does Quantum StarMan cost?

$499.99 (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 Quantum StarMan's drawdown?

Across the accounts we see for this EA the largest decline is 10.1% — 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 Quantum StarMan use grid or martingale?

Yes — the design is Grid. 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 Quantum StarMan any good?

Our grade: 3.8 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 Quantum StarMan?

Yes. We run this EA ourselves and measure its trades in isolation. The figures in this review come from those accounts, not from vendor backtests.