Order Block EA Prop Firm MT4 — Supply/Demand Zone Trading, 7.26 Profit Factor

Order Block EA Prop Firm MT4 is an automated MetaTrader 4 system that identifies institutional supply and demand zones — order blocks — and enters trades when price returns to retest those zones.

A backtest on a $200,000 FTMO challenge account shows 7.26 profit factor and 3.94% peak drawdown across 57 trades.

Key Benefits

• ✅ Prop Firm Alignment: Peak drawdown holds at 3.94% across all three backtested FTMO account sizes — well inside the 10% daily / 20% max drawdown limits most challenges enforce, but prop firm rules change and results require validation on your specific challenge. Browse more prop firm EAs
• ✅ Order Block Strategy: Enters at institutional supply and demand zones where large orders previously reversed price — exploits the mechanical behavior of price returning to unfilled orders rather than chasing momentum.
• ✅ Fixed Stop Loss: Every position carries a hard 30-pip stop loss — no open-ended exposure, no grid compounding — at the cost of trades stopping out before zones fully play out.
• ✅ Win Rate Across Account Sizes: 71–86% win rate documented across $10K, $100K, and $200K backtests — higher win rate on smaller accounts reflects fewer trades and tighter zone filtering at that capital level.

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Order Block EA Prop Firm MT4 Performance

Three backtests across FTMO challenge account sizes — $10K, $100K, and $200K — are the performance basis for this EA. The $200K backtest is the primary signal: 57 trades, 7.26 profit factor, 11.10% net return, 3.94% peak drawdown.

The $100K backtest covers 655 trades with a 1.54 profit factor and 3.69% peak drawdown — a larger trade sample that gives more statistical weight to the win rate figure of 73.44%. The $10K backtest shows 74 trades, 3.78 profit factor, 81.08% win rate, and 3.15% peak drawdown with a 10-pip spread applied.

Performance Snapshot

The primary risk for an order block strategy is zone invalidation — price breaks decisively through a supply or demand zone rather than reversing, turning a high-probability setup into a direct stop-loss hit. When multiple correlated pairs invalidate zones in the same session, consecutive losses cluster rather than distribute, which is visible in the $100K backtest’s maximum of five consecutive losses totaling $508.70.

This is a structural weakness of zone-based trading — no setting eliminates it, only position sizing contains it. The 30-pip hard stop is the primary control: it caps each loss at a defined amount regardless of how far price moves through the zone.

The $100K backtest’s profit factor of 1.54 — compared to 7.26 on the $200K test — signals that results vary significantly with trade sample size and configuration. The modeling quality percentage and exact backtest date range are not documented in available data; classification of backtest fidelity requires your own test run in Strategy Tester before live deployment.

These figures come from backtests — they confirm the strategy’s historical behavior under tested conditions, not live execution with real spread, slippage, and broker latency.

How It Works

Mechanism: The EA identifies order blocks — price zones where institutional buying or selling previously caused a sharp reversal, leaving unfilled orders behind. When price returns to retest these zones, the EA enters in the direction of the original move, targeting the same institutional pressure that caused the initial impulse. This approach works in trending and ranging conditions where price respects historical structure; it underperforms when price is in sustained one-directional expansion with no retest behavior.

Zone Detection: The embedded order block indicator classifies zones by status — Untested, Verified, Proven, or Weak — and applies zone merging to prevent multiple entries at overlapping levels. Tumcoat zones (zones that have flipped from demand to supply or vice versa) are excluded from trading signals by default.

Signal Trigger: Entry fires when price returns to an active, unbroken order block zone. Zone extend is active, meaning the zone remains valid until price either confirms it or breaks through it. Specific RSI, moving average, or timing filters are not documented in available settings.

Position Close: The primary exit is a fixed 30-pip stop loss on every trade. Normal Take Profit is set to off by default — the EA’s close logic relies on zone behavior rather than a fixed pip target. A scalp mode with four partial TP levels (7 pips each at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% of position) is available but disabled in the documented configuration.

Exposure Limits: Fixed lot size of 0.1 per trade. Trailing stop is disabled in the default configuration. Each position is capped at 30 pips of risk, preventing a single zone failure from generating an outsized drawdown.

• ✅ Optimal conditions: Markets with clear institutional structure and consistent zone respect; sessions where London or New York volume creates clean order block formation; pairs with tight spreads relative to the 30-pip stop.
• ⚠️ Avoid when: Price is in a sustained breakout with no pullback behavior, making zone retests unlikely; high-impact news events that spike through multiple zones simultaneously before the EA can exit.

Recommended Settings

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Who Should Use This EA

Purchase this EA if you:

• ✅ Are running an active FTMO, MyFundedFX, or similar prop firm challenge on MT4 with a $10,000+ account size
• ✅ Have an ECN or STP broker account with spreads tight enough to keep the 30-pip stop meaningful — wide-spread accounts erode the risk/reward on every trade
• ✅ Can run MT4 on a VPS continuously so zone alerts and entries are not missed during key sessions
• ✅ Are willing to run a full Strategy Tester backtest on your specific broker’s data before going live — the profit factor variance between the $100K and $200K backtests means configuration matters

Performance verified with: Backtests on FTMO challenge account sizes ($10K, $100K, $200K) using fixed 0.1 lot size and 30-pip stop loss — MT4 platform.

Product Download Package Includes

• ✅ Experts:
  • Order Block EA Prop Firm MT4_fix.ex4
  • AF SUPPLY AND DEMAND EA 2025.ex4
• ✅ Setfiles:
  • SMC EA FX 10K.set
  • SMC EA FX 25K.set
  • SMC EA FX 50K.set
  • SMC EA FX 100K.set
  • SMC EA FX 200K.set
  • SMC EA GOLD 100K.set

The download link will be sent to your email immediately after purchase, along with a video tutorial on how to install it.

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