About us
We test trading robots so you don’t have to buy them to find out.
Aurum EA Lab is a small quantitative research group. We source algorithmic strategies for the currency and metals markets — some written in-house, some acquired and re-engineered — put every one of them on our own capital first, and open them to clients only once there is a live audited record long enough to argue about.
We started this because the retail algo market is full of products sold on a backtest and a screenshot, and because traders end up buying five or six of them to discover that none survive contact with a real spread. Those products are not necessarily fraudulent — most are simply over-fitted, discovered on a laptop and never tested against real slippage and a real losing streak. The difference between a curve fit and a strategy only shows up in live trading, so live trading is the only evidence we publish, and doing that screening is the work we take off your hands.
Our commercial model follows from that. Paper trading is free and unlimited so that you can watch a robot behave before you fund anything. We do not take custody of client money and we never will, because the moment a technology provider starts holding deposits it becomes a different and much more dangerous kind of business.
Principles
Four rules we do not bend
Publish everything or publish nothing
Every robot on this site has its full history public, including the months we would rather you did not see. A curated track record is a sales document, not evidence.
Your money stays yours
We are a technology provider. We do not pool funds, do not accept deposits and never hold withdrawal rights. If we disappeared tomorrow, your account would still be your account.
Slow beats spectacular
A robot needs six months on a live audited account before clients can touch it, whether we wrote it or sourced it. That is why we publish four and not forty.
Say the risky part out loud
Leverage can take your capital to zero. We would rather lose a sale than have a client find that out from experience.
Where we are today
We are early. Four robots are live with track records between seventeen and twenty-six months. Nine more are in evaluation, and we expect to reach thirteen over the next four quarters — but only if each one survives its forward test. If a strategy fails, we will say so here rather than quietly remove it.
Being a young company is a risk you are taking on, and you should price it in. We are open about it because you will find out anyway, and we would rather you heard it from us.