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FAP Turbo Review - Does it float?

Give me pips

Give me pips

I’ve been hearing the buzz around the internet about this thing called FAP Turbo.  Curiosity got the best of me this past week and I decided to give it a try and document the actual results here.  If you haven’t heard of it before, it is an Expert Advisor for Metatrader 4 that places trades automagically based on its black box algorithm.  Some people call it a trading robot.

In my opinion, I have my doubts as to if this thing will actually work in the long run.

That being said, I have heard from several reliable sources that it does trade pretty consistently.  In the documentation they say that you should trade the system with 4 pairs, EURCHF, EURGBP, USDCAD, GBPCHF.

They state that the best pair for their system has been the EURGBP and other results I have seen seem to support that statement.  There is a scalping strategy and a longer term strategy but the scalping strategy seems to be the most profitable by far.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t intend to replace my trading with this robot but it might be a nice addition to my trading and provide some diversification, if it works.

So my plan with this software is to demo trade it for two months and if my results are consistent with what I have seen, open a small account to trade it in.  I am only going to trade the EURGBP scalping strategy and I am not going to change any of the default settings.

I have an idea of why it works best on the EURGBP but I will save that theory for another post.  It is a black box strategy and I will never commit a large portion of my equity to it because I don’t know exactly what it is doing but it might be a nice little addition to my trading.

One of my friends is using it now and says that 5% a month would be a decent average expectation for the system.   I have no reason to doubt him but I always have to find out for myself and you should too, if you choose to try it out.

I am going to be running this on my desktop computer at home that is always on.  They also offer a virtual server service, but from what I hear you are better off finding your own virtual server service.

On the first night of trading, the robot went 7/8 with 1 breakeven trade in the demo account.  I’m trying the system on all the suggested pairs but I am most interested in the EURGBP.  The EURGBP trades made a total of $547 on a $100,000 demo account.  Not a bad start.

I am usually against this type of thing and if it doesn’t work out they have a 60 day money back guarantee so you can be sure that I will ask for my money back.  At $149 though, it is worth a try.  Click here to see for yourself.

More results to come!




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I'm sorry to hear about your experience with it. First of all, this has NOT been my experience with the software.The results of the software largely depend on the broker you use. The download page clearly states that if you use the software with a live account, there are no refunds.You should have demo traded the software first to see how well it works with your broker. I was using it with IBFX at first and results were very poor because the spreads would vary way too much.Then I watched some videos about other people running the software and they were having good results with Alpari-US.I would suggest you try demo trading with Alpari-US first and see what the results are.If you are really intent on getting a refund, email Clickbank directly and see if there is anything they can do. Sometimes they are willing to refund even when the vendor won't.

FAPTURBO IS THE WORST EA EVER. THE RESULTS ARE AWFUL. THE SOFTWARE FOOLS YOU BY MAKING A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY AND THEN IT WIPES YOUR ENTIRE ACCOUNT OUT WITH ONE REALLY BAD TRADE. THEN YOU PUT MORE MONEY INTO YOUR ACCOUNT, IT MAKES SOME MONEY AND THEN AGAIN MAKES A BAD TRADE AND YOU LOSE EVERYTHING. (SO YOU HAVE NOW LOST MORE). THE SOFTWARE IS JUST AS BAD AS THE FAPTURBO CUSTOMER SUPPORT SERVICES. THEY NEVER REPLY TO EMAILS AND THEY DON'T GIVE REFUNDS, THEY ALSO DON'T CARE THAT YOU REALLY NEED YOUR MONEY BACK, THEY ARE JUST INTERESTED IN TAKING YOUR MONEY FOR A PRODUCT THAT WILL ONLY BANKRUPT YOU. - IT'S A SCAM AND THEY ARE THIEVES - DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY OR YOUR TIME. THIS SOFTWARE MADE ME LOSE SO MOUCH MONEY IT'S UNBELIEVABLE AND NOW THEY DON'T WANT OT GIVE ME A REFUND!

Its losing trades are huge and its winners are 4 or 5 pips. They took their $500 account off their website because after it built up to $1100 it crashed down to around $300. This account was started in Dec. It looked really great until a couple of big losses took the profit and the principal.

Thanks for the info. Yeah, that is the nature of the system, it looks for a lot of small gains but has a big loss here and there. In my testing the big loss hasn't been more than about 2% of total equity so it is acceptable from a money management standpoint.To me it seems like if you try to mess with the settings and get greedy, that's when you get into trouble. I think they were a victim of that on the website. They were trying to live up to the claims and set the parameters to super aggressive settings.I totally agree that there is no way FAP Turbo can live up to the claims of doubling your account every month, that's BS. However, based on trading in a demo account, it seems like if used conservatively, it could pull in 4-6% a month pretty consistently. When is the last time you made 48% interest in a year at the bank?I have also found that the broker you use makes a huge difference in profitability. The general consensus is that Alpari-US seems to work the best.From the other FAP Turbo testing I have been tracking on the internet, people start to see success and then start tweaking the system to milk it for faster gains. I am completely against changing any of the settings and if they start messing with the core algorithm, I'm going to stop using it.They are curve fitting and it is an endless and futile battle. Every system has it's strengths and weaknesses and I believe that you have to stay true to the mechanical system during it's ups and downs if it is still showing net profitability with acceptable drawdown. We will see how it goes...I could be completely wrong of course! That's why we need to learn to trade for ourselves too, this is just good diversification (and something fun to write about).

I tried this too last week.. so far so good. One thing I noticed you should also pick good broker. I'm currently running it on three demo account and all three has different result. It was more profitable in Forex.com than Alpari and InterbanFX.By the way, I was searching google for using Dell Mini in forex trading and got your site as the result. Are you able to use Dell Mini for trading?

It is a little hard because the screen is so small, but it does work, especially when traveling.

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