Kestrel GBPUSD Expert Advisor for MT4

What Kestrel does on GBPUSD

Kestrel EA is a grid expert advisor for MetaTrader 4: it opens from its own signal, adds to the basket in small, capped steps when price moves against it, and closes the whole basket together at its target. It never closes a single trade at a loss; until the basket closes, the loss is floating.

The same engine runs all four offered pairs. On GBPUSD both variants are published, Patient and Active, and the difference between them is the price of activity: Active returned more and asked more of the account on its worst day.

The two GBPUSD records, 2010–2025

Simulated on Dukascopy data at Horizon level, in euros at fixed rates, without swap or commission:

Measure, backtest 2010–2025	GBPUSD Patient	GBPUSD Active
Simulated profit	€30,025	€53,725
Return on recommended capital	+257% of €11,700	+251% of €21,400
Yearly, on that capital	16.0%	15.7%
Deepest fall from an equity peak	€3,873	€7,089
Worst floating loss	−€3,885 on 14 Nov 2024	−€7,122 on 31 Jul 2020
Maximum open lots	6.64	10.68
Positive months	90.6%	95.8%
No stop-out · Standard STP (20%)	€4,200	€7,600
No stop-out · Raw and ECN (50%)	€4,700	€8,400
Recommended capital, Horizon	€11,700	€21,400

A stop-out is the moment a broker closes your positions because the account no longer covers them; the two floor rows are the smallest balances that would have survived the record at the 20% and 50% levels VT Markets publishes for its Standard STP and its Raw and Pro ECN accounts, the broker where our demo accounts run (Help Centre, checked 17 September 2026). They are technical limits, never the capital we advise — the arithmetic lives on Kestrel EA Risk Management and Capital for MT4 Portfolios.

The software itself has run on two demo accounts since September 2026 — a forward test on demo, not a real account.

Starting on the worst possible day

We checked every hour of those sixteen years as a possible opening day. With the capital we recommend, an account opened on any of them survived to the end of the record in both variants. Even with €8,500 on Active — below what we recommend — it survives every start date; below about €6,800 it stops doing so. That is what the recommendation is for.

Combining GBPUSD with the other pairs

Choose your pairs, one to four in the same account — EURUSD, GBPUSD, EURCAD and AUDCAD — then Patient, Active or both for each. Patient adds to a basket less often and holds a smaller worst case; Active adds more often, returned more in the backtest and reached a larger worst case; same rules, same basket close.

GBPUSD pairs well with the CAD pairs in the record: with EURCAD Active its joint worst moment came to €5,897 where the two separate worst moments add up to €9,772 (simulated, 2014–2025). Every mix, with the capital each recommends: Kestrel Pair Combinations: What Fits Your Capital. The other pairs: Kestrel EURUSD Expert Advisor for MT4, Kestrel AUDCAD Expert Advisor for MT4: Patient and Active and Kestrel EURCAD Expert Advisor for MT4.

Like the kestrel that hangs still in the wind before it strikes, the software waits, holds and closes once — on this pair too.

Choose your level for GBPUSD

Level	Starting lot	Recommended: Patient	Recommended: Active	Price per year, VAT included
Horizon	0.01	€11,700	€21,400	€999
Summit	0.05	€58,500	€107,000	€4,999
Zenith	0.10	€117,000	€214,000	€9,999

Each recommendation is three times the worst case of that record, and Summit and Zenith scale every figure by five and by ten.

Set up in five steps

1. Choose your pairs — GBPUSD alone or with one to three more — then Patient, Active or both for each.
2. Choose the level whose recommended capital matches your account.
3. Buy the annual licence on Kestrel Forex Robot Price and Licence Levels.
4. Install on MetaTrader 4, on a VPS, and load the set file of your level.
5. Follow the record: every figure carries its date, feed and period.

The full catalogue: Kestrel Expert Advisors for MT4.