+171.7% in 5 years 8 months. Deepest drawdown -4.13%. And you can prove it on your own screen tonight, free, before you pay anything.

Guardian is not a trading robot - it is a portfolio: 8 strategies that were mined, validated and decorrelated one by one, running together in a single cBot across 6 markets. No grid. No martingale. No averaging into losers. No hidden multiplier waiting to take the account back. Every strategy had to hold up on data it had never seen before it was allowed in. Engineered for prop firms (FTMO Swing).

WHAT IT RETURNED (Jan 2021 - Aug 2026, cTrader-native, m1, real commission + swap)

ROI +171.7% (19.3% CAGR)

Profit factor 1.58 (per trade - the figure cTrader reports)

Max equity DD -4.13%

Calmar (CAGR/DD) 4.69

Trades 2,276 (win rate 46.9% per trade)

Positive months 56 vs 12 negative

Not our engine. Not our chart. That is the cBot's OWN run inside cTrader's backtester - the same program you are about to install, on the same data you have.

WHERE THE SPREAD ASSUMPTION COMES FROM

Every figure on this page was produced with a FLAT 2-pip spread - deliberately wide, and the same value the previous generation was measured on, so the two are comparable line by line.

A flat spread cannot be fair to instruments of different scale at once. Two pips sits on the pessimistic side for most of this book - the indices and the yen crosses are charged well above what they really cost, and we publish it that way on purpose. Costs decide what stays in a book, not backtest curves.

Commission and swap are the broker's real ones, not a flat assumption.

RUN IT YOURSELF TONIGHT. FREE. BEFORE YOU PAY.

There is a free, backtest-only edition of Guardian: same engine, same 8 strategies, same panel. Install it, load m1 data, set Jan 2021 - Aug 2026 and 80,000, press start - and you will land on the figures above, trade for trade.

That is the entire pitch. If the numbers do not hold up on your screen, do not buy it.

Free edition: realbacktesting Guardian FTMO Swing Free - https://ctrader.com/products/4616

PROOF THAT DOES NOT COME FROM US

Guardian is 5-star rated by algo.expert, cTrader's own product auditor, which scored it Bot Health 92/100 (Safe): "a professional portfolio trading system rather than a conventional trading robot ... one of the best engineered prop-firm portfolio systems currently available on cTrader."

Scroll up and look at the Live Stats badge on this page.

That is not a backtest. That is this cBot, on a live-data account, 24/5 since July 2026 - published by cTrader from the account itself. We can switch the bot off; we cannot edit what it already did, and a bad week stays on the badge.

A backtest proves a strategy worked on history. Live Stats proves the software still runs: still finds its instruments at another broker, still respects its guards, still recovers from a dropped connection at 3am. Most listings only ever show you the first one.

BUILT LIKE SOFTWARE, NOT LIKE A ROBOT

Each of the 8 was mined and validated on its own - walk-forward and out-of-sample - and only then allowed to run next to the others.

HOW IT IS BUILT. They come out of a research engine that has run over 13 million backtests. You cannot check that number from here - so do not weigh it. Weigh this instead: what came out of it was ported to C# and checked signal by signal against the original. The release gate is 99.9% agreement; this build measures 100.000%.

And nothing ships until it has been EXECUTED on a live demo account - because compiling and passing tests is not the same as doing what it says.

AND IT IS MAINTAINED. This is not a listing that was uploaded once. The book is re-measured, strategies that decay are replaced, and every change ships with the reasoning - including the ones that cost us performance.

8 STRATEGIES THAT DO NOT ALL LOSE ON THE SAME DAY

Diversified by BEHAVIOUR, not by market: Breakout, Regime, Pullback, Seasonality, Trend, Momentum, Volatility. Across DAX, GBPJPY, GBPUSD, Nasdaq, USDJPY, Gold - a regime change hits one sleeve, not the whole book. Mean pairwise correlation 0.12 - measured across the sleeves of this exact book, not asserted.

THE ONE BAD DAY IS WHAT KILLS PROP ACCOUNTS

You do not lose a prop account by being wrong. You lose it by being unprotected on one bad day - and you lose the fee you paid for the account with it. That is what this half of the product is for.

HALTS THAT REMEMBER. If the 6% max-drawdown guard stops the book it STAYS stopped - through a restart, a reboot, another PC. So does the daily-loss budget: a mid-session restart no longer hands back the whole day's allowance. Most bots forget everything the moment they restart, which is precisely when a guard matters.

YOUR FIRM'S CLOCK, NOT OURS. Firms do not all reset the day at the same hour, and a guard counting the wrong day is worse than no guard. Set the zone and hour to match yours.

OPEN TRADES ARE NEVER ORPHANED. Lose the session, restart, move machine: the bot takes back what it left open and rebuilds every trailing stop, breakeven and time exit from the broker's own record. Nothing is left sitting on a stop order with nobody watching.

IT TELLS YOU. Optional Telegram alerts to YOUR own bot: every open, every close with its P&L and reason, every guard that fires, every broker error. The token is yours; nothing passes through us. (Desktop and VPS. cTrader Cloud blocks outbound internet for all cBots, so alerts cannot leave a cloud instance - platform restriction, said up front.)

YOUR BOT, YOUR RULES - THE PANEL

90 configurable parameters. You do not need most of them - but they are there, and none of them is decoration.

EVERY STRATEGY, INDIVIDUALLY. All 8 are labelled by style and timeframe - "S01 - Volatility Trend - 8h". Each one: on or off, its own risk %, longs or shorts only, open-and-manage or manage-only, or a fixed lot instead of risk.

PRESETS. One dropdown sets risk scale, guards and position cap. The three FTMO books are nested, so a larger one can be stepped down to behave exactly like a smaller one.

OVERLAYS, ALL OFF BY DEFAULT. Drawdown throttle, volatility targeting, de-risk under an equity moving average, profit target with trailing give-back. Off means the defaults reproduce the published figure; on means you are running your own version, deliberately.

BROKER COMPATIBILITY. Symbol overrides, additive or compound sizing, per-asset and global risk caps, and a resolver that reaches bare tickers, MIC suffixes and commercial names. If an instrument is missing at your broker, the bot SAYS SO instead of running empty.

Every name, default and range is documented parameter by parameter on our website - read it before you buy, not after.

ONE THING TO KNOW: while a named preset is selected, the cBot re-applies that preset's risk scale, guards and position cap at every start. Set the preset to Custom first if you want your own values to stick.

WHAT YOU PAY, AND WHY IT WILL NEVER BE CHEAPER

Priced by what is inside it: $20 per strategy. 8 strategies = $160 one-time. Pay once, own it.

NO SALES. NO DISCOUNTS. EVER. The price only ever RISES - +$5 per strategy every 5 sales (ceiling $75/strategy). The earliest buyers lock in the lowest price; it never goes down. No subscription, no monthly fee, no rent.

WHO IS BEHIND IT - AND WHY THAT MATTERS IN SIX MONTHS

Guardian is not somebody's weekend robot. It is one of 9 products we build and maintain in this Store - cBots, indicators and plugins - and we ship the same way every time: measured, executed on a real account before release, and documented.

That same auditor has reviewed 8 of those listings, 6 of them at five stars. Open our profile and read every one - including the ones that are not this product.

That is the difference between buying a file and buying from a studio: when a broker renames a symbol, when cTrader changes an API, when a strategy decays - somebody is still here, and the update is free.

START WHERE IT COSTS YOU NOTHING

Install the free edition. Point it at your own broker's data, over any period you like, with your own spread and commission. It will either land on the figures at the top of this page or it will not - and you will know in an hour, without having paid anything.

If it does, the paid edition is the same cBot with live and demo trading unlocked, $160 once.

Free edition: realbacktesting Guardian FTMO Swing Free - https://ctrader.com/products/4616

Full strategy breakdown and every cTrader-native metric: our cTrader profile and our website - search "realbacktesting". (The Store rejects off-site links in a description.)