Description
Full documentation, every setting and all the data in more detail on our website - realbacktesting.com
Do not believe the +171.7%. Go and check it.
This is the FREE edition of Guardian - the full cBot, the same engine, the same 8 strategies, the same configuration panel. It runs inside cTrader's Backtester and Optimizer and reproduces the published figures trade for trade on your own machine. The only thing it will not do is place a live order. REAL INSTITUTIONAL EDGE - ENGINEERED FOR PROP FIRMS (FTMO Swing).
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."
Most sellers ask you to trust a screenshot. We hand you the program and the recipe.
Out of the box it redraws the published equity curve. Then change whatever you like - risk, guards, which strategies are on - and it answers on YOUR settings, with YOUR broker's spread and commission, over any period you choose. By design it cannot trade live or on demo: on a real-time account it prints a notice and stops. That is the one thing the paid edition adds.
THE NUMBERS TO REPRODUCE (cTrader-native, Jan 2021 - Aug 2026, 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
Backtest recipe: m1 data, Jan 2021 - Aug 2026, starting capital 80,000, Additive sizing, your broker's real spread + commission. You reproduce these exact figures - proof over promises.
WHAT YOU CAN DO (and what you cannot)
CAN: backtest it on cTrader m1 data with your broker's real spread + commission over any period you like; redraw the exact published equity curve; and tune every setting the paid edition has - risk scale, initial balance, sizing, per-strategy On/Risk/Sides, risk caps and guards - then run the cTrader Optimizer over them to find what fits your account.
CANNOT: trade it live or on demo. On a real-time account it prints a notice and stops. That is the one thing the paid edition adds.
WHY IT IS REAL
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.
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.
YOUR BOT, YOUR RULES - AND THIS EDITION LETS YOU OPTIMIZE ALL OF IT
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.
WHO IS BEHIND IT
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.
GET THE LIVE EDITION
When the numbers hold up on your screen - and the configuration you found here is the one you want - the full Guardian (from $120, one-time) is the same cBot with live and demo trading unlocked. Same book, same 8 strategies, same panel. You have already tested exactly what you would be buying.
Get it here: realbacktesting Guardian FTMO Swing - https://ctrader.com/products/4543
NO SALES. NO DISCOUNTS. The per-strategy price only RISES with sales (+$5 every 5 sales, ceiling $75/strategy) - the earliest buyers lock in the lowest price.
For the full strategy breakdown and every cTrader-native metric, see our cTrader profile and our website - search "realbacktesting".
Summary
Key performance metrics reproducible on your own broker data (m1 bars, zero spread, real commissions and swaps) from June 2021 to June 2026 include a 118.9% ROI, maximum equity drawdown under 3%, and a profit factor of 1.62 over 2,285 trades. The bot features comprehensive risk management aligned with FTMO prop firm rules, including fixed percent risk sizing, stop losses on every trade, global and per-asset risk caps, daily loss limits, max drawdown guards, margin usage controls, and real-time protective guards running every second.
Users can enable or disable individual strategies and adjust risk per strategy. The bot requires an initial deposit of 80,000 EUR for backtesting and supports additive sizing without compounding. It includes a warm-up period for indicator accuracy and logs all risk management actions visibly. This free edition serves as a try-before-you-buy tool; a separate live-trading version is available for FTMO Swing accounts.
