AI Trading Error? Or Genius Move? A Bot Enters a Trade During Major News and Doubles Account

Frankfurt, Germany – July 24, 2025 — In what many would call either a miraculous accident or a dangerous oversight, a German software engineer turned part-time trader saw his account double in under 60 seconds—due entirely to a miscalculation in his trading robot’s code.

Lukas B., a 36-year-old algorithm developer from Frankfurt, had built his own MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor to trade breakouts based on price action and session volatility. But one small error in a mathematical condition—meant to avoid trading during high-impact news events—resulted in the EA doing exactly the opposite.

“I had coded a news filter using a time window,” Lukas told SniperEA Blog. “But I reversed the greater-than and less-than signs in the logic. So instead of avoiding NFP [Non-Farm Payroll] at 14:30, the robot was specifically targeting it.”

And target it did.

On July 5th, during one of the most volatile NFP releases of the year, the EA entered a full-sized trade exactly 0.3 seconds after the data dropped. Within moments, the market surged in his favor, hitting take-profit in just under 50 seconds and doubling his $9,000 account to $18,082.

“It was pure luck,” Lukas admits. “The spread could’ve widened, the move could’ve gone the other way, the slippage could’ve wiped me out. But instead, it printed a perfect candle and exploded in my direction.”

The incident sparked massive debate online, with some calling it “AI intuition,” while others warned it was a “time bomb with a good ending.”

Lukas agrees with the skeptics.

“This wasn’t smart. It was dangerous. That bug could’ve easily destroyed the account. I fixed the code the same night. You don’t get second chances in trading very often.”

The lesson? Even the most promising EA can fail catastrophically if human errors go unnoticed. Coding logic must be reviewed, tested, and treated with the same discipline as live capital.

When asked if he’d ever intentionally program the EA to trade during news events again, Lukas shook his head:“No way. I’d rather grow slow and steady than roll the dice like that ever again.”