De Moore EA Review (2026): The MQL5 Listing Is Withdrawn and No Track Record Can Be Checked

19.0 / 100

weighted verdict score on eight published criteria

Withdrawn

MQL5 Market status of product 189042 on 29 Oct 2026

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live signals, backtest reports or independent reviews we could open

The verdict at a glance: not proven bad, simply not checkable

Most searches for an EA review ask four questions: is it legit, does it work, how risky is it, and what does it cost. For De Moore on 29 October 2026 the honest answers are short. Legit: we have no evidence of wrongdoing and no evidence of performance; the public listing has been withdrawn and the reason is not stated. Works: unknown, because there is no record anyone outside the seller can read. Risk: unknown design, so we label it High until shown otherwise. Price: there is no Market price any more, and we could not read our own store page for this review. The rest of this page explains how we reached those answers, what a withdrawn listing does and does not mean, and the exact checks that would move the score.

That is an unusual verdict for this site. Most EAs we score have at least a Market listing with a description, a version number, a rating and a demo, and many link a live MQL5 signal. Those give us something to test claims against. De Moore, as of our check, has none of them in public. A verdict cannot reward a product for evidence that is not there, so seven of the eight criteria sit at the bottom of their scales. The score is not a prediction that the EA will lose money. It is a statement that a buyer today would be paying on trust alone.

What we found on the MQL5 Market page for product 189042

The research hint for this verdict was the MQL5 Market page for product 189042. We opened it on 29 October 2026. In place of a product description it showed a 404 image and the line: 'Unfortunately, "De Moore" is not available for purchasing anymore.' Below that, MQL5 tells earlier buyers how to keep using it: open MetaTrader 5, enter MQL5.community credentials under Tools, Options, Community, go to Navigator, Market, My Purchases, and click Install, 'as long as you have activations left'. The page links to MetaTrader's own documentation on re-downloading purchases.

We then tried the subpages that normally carry buyer evidence. The comments page showed the same withdrawal notice and no comments. The reviews page, at the address MQL5 uses for product reviews, returned an HTTP 404. We also ran a search of the MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor section of the Market for 'De Moore'. The results page we read did not contain any product with that name; the name appeared only in the search address itself.

What a withdrawn MQL5 listing means, and what it does not

A product can leave the MQL5 Market for several reasons, and the notice does not say which applies. The seller may have withdrawn it to rework it, to change its price model, to sell it through other channels, or to stop supporting it. The platform may have removed it. The page we read gives no reason, so we do not guess one. What we can say is what the withdrawal changes for a buyer, because that part is mechanical.

• No Market purchase. New buyers cannot buy it on MQL5. Any copy offered elsewhere is a separate sale with its own terms, not an MQL5 licence.
• No public demo. Market products normally offer a free demo that runs in the Strategy Tester. With the listing gone, that route for testing before paying is gone too.
• No public reviews or comments. The ratings and threads that let a buyer see other people's experience cannot be read.
• No visible changelog. The version history and update dates that show whether a product is maintained are not public.
• Existing buyers keep access, within limits. MQL5's notice says earlier buyers can reinstall while they have activations left. It says nothing about future updates.

What the withdrawal does not mean is equally important. It is not evidence that the EA lost money, that buyers complained, or that anyone acted dishonestly. Plenty of legitimate products are withdrawn and relaunched. We report it because it is the single most important fact a buyer needs today: the usual public checks on an MQL5 product cannot be done for De Moore, so the burden of proof shifts entirely to whoever is selling it now, including us.

How we judged it, and who has something to sell

Every verdict on this site uses the same eight weighted criteria and the same A to D grading of sources, set out on the methodology page. Unverified claims cannot count as proof, and the evidence score is capped at 4 out of 10 unless an independent, grade A record exists. For De Moore that cap barely matters, because there were no claims to grade either: the listing that would normally carry the vendor's claims has been taken down.

• The original developer is not named on the withdrawn page, so we cannot weigh their record, other products or replies to buyers.
• MQL5 and MetaQuotes host the Market. The withdrawal notice and reinstall instructions are the platform's own words.
• Other sellers may offer a product under the same name. We found none we could check, and we would treat any such offer as a separate product until its author and version are proven.
• ForexCopilotEA sells a listing called De Moore and gains if you buy it. That is why this page opens with the disclosure and gives our own product no credit for evidence we have not published.

Track record and signals: none we could open

The strongest public evidence for any MQL5 EA is a platform-computed signal: MetaQuotes reads the broker history and calculates growth, drawdown, profit factor and trade counts itself. Behind that comes an independently verified Myfxbook account, then a reproducible Strategy Tester report. For De Moore we found none of the three. The withdrawn listing links nothing, and we did not find a signal under the name.

Without any of these rows filled, we cannot tell you the drawdown, the profit factor, the win rate, the longest losing streak, the average holding time or even which market De Moore trades. We will not fill the gap with estimates. If you are shown figures for De Moore by any seller, ask where they come from and use our guide to verifying an EA track record before you trust them. A screenshot of an equity curve is a picture, not a record.

Risk: unknown design is scored as high risk

Our risk label describes what can happen to an account on the worst day. To set it we need the design: whether each trade has a stop loss, whether the EA adds positions to losing trades in a grid, whether it increases lot size after a loss as a martingale does, and how deep it has drawn down in real use. For De Moore none of this is public. We set `design` to 'other' because we cannot classify it, and the risk label to High because a buyer cannot rule out the dangerous designs.

That label is a default, not a finding. If the seller shows that De Moore uses a hard stop on every trade, never averages down, and has a modest verified drawdown at its recommended capital, the risk label can move to Medium. If it turns out to be a grid or martingale without a hard stop, our rules require High or Extreme. Until then, assume the worst case is unbounded and size any test so that losing the whole test balance would not hurt you.

• Ask about the stop. Does every position, or every basket, have a hard stop loss in the order itself, not only in the EA's memory? A stop that lives only in the EA disappears if the terminal disconnects.
• Ask about adding to losers. Grids and averaging systems look smooth until a long one-way move. Our guide to martingale and grid risks shows how the exposure stacks.
• Ask about the worst drawdown and its length. The depth matters, and so does how long the account took to recover. See forex EA drawdown explained.
• Ask about news and weekends. Gaps can jump past stops. See weekend gaps and rollover risk.
• Ask about lot sizing. Fixed lots, a percentage of balance, or something that grows after losses? See lot sizing methods for EAs.

The calculator above shows why the size of the worst loss matters more than the average month. A 50% drawdown needs a 100% gain to recover. When the drawdown is unknown, the only safe assumption for a first test is that it could be large, which is why the test account should be money you could lose entirely.

Reviews and reputation: nothing public to read

On a live MQL5 product the reviews tab shows a star rating, dated reviews and the developer's replies. For product 189042 the reviews address returned a 404 on 29 October 2026, and the comments page carried only the withdrawal notice. We did not find a third-party review of De Moore in the sources we could open. We therefore have no rating, no count of reviews and no buyer testimony to report, good or bad.

If you find reviews of a 'De Moore' EA elsewhere, read them with two cautions. First, make sure they describe the same product, author and version. Second, remember that reviews are testimony, not data: satisfied buyers post more than unhappy ones on rising products, and the reverse can happen after a product is pulled. A single dated, specific review that names a broker, a balance, a trade count and a drawdown is worth more than twenty that say 'great EA'.

Price and licence: no Market price to compare

Because the MQL5 listing is withdrawn, there is no Market price, rental option or activation count we can quote. We also could not open our own store page for De Moore from the research tool on 29 October 2026, so this page does not state what we charge or which version we ship. That is a gap we would rather show than paper over. Before paying anyone, confirm in writing the price, what the licence covers, how many accounts or terminals it allows, whether updates are included, and what happens if the original author stops maintaining the code.

Remember the costs around the licence too. Most EAs need a VPS to run around the clock, and execution quality depends on the broker's spread, commission and fills. Our guides on VPS for MT5 Expert Advisors, spread, slippage and swap and lifetime versus subscription licences cover what to budget. With no record to set against the price, we score cost at 2 out of 10: any price is hard to justify when the expected return cannot be estimated at all.

The score, criterion by criterion: 19.0 out of 100

The total is 19.0 out of 100. Evidence sits at 1 out of 10 because nothing at grades A or B exists; the single point reflects that the product demonstrably existed on the MQL5 Market under ID 189042. Risk is 2 because an unknown design cannot be given credit for stops it may or may not have. Profitability is 2 because there is no figure at all to judge. Sustainability, trust, cost and support each sit at 2: the public channels that would show maintenance, openness and help have been closed or cannot be read. Fit is 3 only because nothing we read rules a buyer out; it is not a positive finding.

These scores are deliberately mechanical. We do not lift a score because a product is sold here, and we do not lower it further because a listing was withdrawn without a stated reason. Each number answers the question in our method with the sources available on 29 October 2026, and each will be recalculated when new sources appear.

Who De Moore fits today, and who it does not

• It may suit an experienced trader who already owns the MQL5 licence, can reinstall it from My Purchases, and is willing to forward-test it on a demo account for several months before risking real money.
• It does not suit a first-time EA buyer. With no demo, no record and no reviews, there is nothing to learn from before paying, and the cost of a wrong guess is the account.
• It does not suit prop-firm challenges. Daily loss limits punish unknown drawdown behaviour, and many firms restrict EAs whose logic you cannot describe. See using Expert Advisors with prop firms.
• It does not suit anyone who needs the money in the account. Treat any live use as a small experiment with capital you can lose in full.

If you already own it: a safe way to test De Moore on MT5

Some readers arrive here because they bought De Moore before the listing was withdrawn and want to know whether to run it. The answer is to generate the evidence yourself, slowly and cheaply, before trusting it with real money. The steps below are the same ones we recommend for any EA without a public record.

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   Step 1: Reinstall from the official source only

   Use MetaTrader 5's Navigator, Market, My Purchases, as the MQL5 notice describes. Do not use copies from forums or file-sharing sites. Note how many activations you have left before you install on a new terminal.

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   Step 2: Read every input before attaching it

   Open the inputs tab and write down each setting: lot size or risk, stop loss, take profit, any 'step', 'multiplier' or 'max orders' field. Inputs with those names often reveal a grid or martingale. Our guide to set files and inputs explains what to look for.

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   Step 3: Backtest on real ticks over several years

   Run the Strategy Tester with 'Every tick based on real ticks' over at least three to five years and include the costs your broker charges. Read the report for maximum drawdown, the longest losing run and how the profit is spread across months. See how to read an MT5 backtest report.

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   Step 4: Forward-test on a demo for at least a month or two

   A backtest shows history; a demo shows how the EA behaves with your broker's live spreads and fills. Compare the two. Large gaps between them are a warning. See forward-testing an EA on demo.

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   Step 5: Go live small, and keep records

   If the demo holds up, start with the smallest lot on a small live account and track every trade. Decide in advance the drawdown at which you will switch it off. See keeping EA trading records and when to turn off your EA.

If you do this and are willing to share a broker-verified or Myfxbook-verified record, send it through the contact page. A real record from a real account is exactly what this verdict lacks, and we will weigh it on the same rules as any other evidence, noting who provided it.

Once your own test produces a win rate, an average win and an average loss, the calculator above turns them into an expected result per trade. A positive number over a few dozen trades is not proof; over several hundred trades across different market conditions it starts to mean something.

How it compares with EAs that publish verified records

The contrast with products that show their work is stark. Gold House links two live MQL5 signals with hundreds of trades each, publishes its requirements and offers a free demo; its score reflects a real, if modest, edge. Gold Snap does the same with three signals. Even Wave Rider, a grid design we rate as high risk, gives a buyer enough to judge the danger. De Moore's 19.0 is lower than all of them not because its trading is known to be worse but because nothing about its trading is known. For the design families and how their risks differ, see our strategy comparison, and browse the full list of verdicts.

If you came here looking for an MT5 EA and De Moore is simply the name you saw, the practical advice is to start with products that let you check the record before paying. Our EA buying checklist and guide to spotting forex EA scams list the warning signs; most of them are about evidence, not about any particular strategy.

Questions to put to the seller or developer before you pay

1. Who wrote De Moore, and is the product you sell the same code as MQL5 Market product 189042?
2. Why was the MQL5 listing withdrawn, and when?
3. Which instrument and timeframe does it trade, and what minimum deposit do you recommend?
4. Does every trade carry a hard stop loss? Does it ever add to a losing position or increase size after a loss?
5. Can you link a live MQL5 signal or a verified Myfxbook account running the version you sell, and how long has it run?
6. Can you share a Strategy Tester report with the exact settings, so a buyer can reproduce it?
7. What is the largest drawdown and the longest losing streak you have seen on a live account?
8. Will the EA receive updates, and how will buyers get them now the Market listing is gone?