Trader Forgets About MT5 Bot – Returns to Find Account Up 134% in 6 Months

Lisbon, Portugal – July 22, 2025 – A Portuguese trader has made headlines across online trading communities after discovering that his MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisor had quietly turned a $10,000 account into more than $23,400 while he was completely unaware of its activity.

The trader, who asked to be identified only as “Daniel M.,” initially set up a trading robot on his MT5 terminal hosted on a virtual private server (VPS) in early January. The algorithm, which had been programmed with strict money management and a win-rate-focused breakout strategy, was designed to generate monthly returns between 10–15%, without human interference.

“I launched the bot on January 8th, tested it for a few days, then let it run on the VPS. Honestly, life got busy—I forgot all about it,” Daniel told NBR News in an exclusive interview. “Six months later, I got an email from MetaTrader reminding me that my VPS subscription was about to expire. That’s when it hit me—I had a running account I hadn’t checked in half a year.”

To his surprise, the account had grown from $10,000 to $23,417.12—an increase of over 134%.

Daniel attributes the performance not to luck, but to the discipline of automated systems. “The biggest enemy of a trader is emotion. Fear, greed, overthinking—it all disappears when a robot trades for you based on a tested strategy. The EA followed the rules perfectly. No second-guessing. No panic.”

While past performance does not guarantee future results, Daniel’s story reignites the ongoing debate around discretionary vs. algorithmic trading. It also highlights the potential of combining a well-structured Expert Advisor with the consistency of VPS hosting—especially when the human element is intentionally removed.

Daniel’s final thoughts? “Sometimes, the best trading decision is to do… absolutely nothing.”