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6,976 Pips. One Simple Rule. Then AI Found We Could Have Nearly Doubled It.

Buy GBPJPY and USDJPY every Friday. Fixed TP, fixed SL. No discretion. Two years of live trading, 273 trades, 6,976 pips. Then we fed 6 years of data into Claude AI — and it found we could have nearly doubled the yield by switching to Thursday's close.

ForexAlgoTrading6 May 20255 min read
ForexAlgoTrading.com · Live Portfolio · 2023–2026AI Research Note
Total pips
6,976
GBPJPY + USDJPY live
Total trades
273
136 per pair since 2023
Live since
2023
Friday close entry
Profit factor
1.49
Expectancy 25.6 pips
The Strategy

Buy GBPJPY and USDJPY every Friday at the London close. Fixed TP, fixed SL. No discretion, no indicators. Two years of live trading, 273 trades, 6,976 pips. Then we fed 6 years of historical data into Claude AI — and it found we could have nearly doubled it.

Live MT5 account statistics
Per-pair breakdown — GBPJPY & USDJPY longsMT5 Advanced Statistics · Trades tab
MT5 per-pair trade statistics showing GBPJPY 2790.9 pips and USDJPY 4186.3 pips
Portfolio summary — 273 trades · 6,976 pipsMT5 Advanced Statistics · Summary tab
MT5 summary statistics showing profit factor 1.49, expectancy 25.6 pips
What AI discovered — feeding in 6 years of data
GBPJPY — Friday vs Thursday
5,413p→9,812p
Friday buy (backtest) → Thursday buy
+81% more pips
USDJPY — Friday vs Thursday
3,460p→7,560p
Friday buy (backtest) → Thursday buy
+118% more pips
Our live setting · 2 years running
Friday Buy
EntryFriday close
GBPJPY pips (backtest)+5,413
USDJPY pips (backtest)+3,460
USDJPY losing years1 (2025)
Combined8,873p
AI-discovered optimum
Thursday Buy
EntryThursday close (10–11pm UK)
GBPJPY pips9,812
USDJPY pips7,560
Losing years (either pair)0
Combined17,372p
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ForexAlgoTrading.com · AI Research Note

We fed Claude AI 6 years of historical daily data across multiple pairs. It scanned over 11,000 parameter combinations — every entry day, every TP/SL combination, every hold period. Analysis that would have taken a quant analyst several weeks was completed in under 10 minutes. The finding: buying on Thursday's close rather than Friday's captures more of the JPY-cross weekend drift and gives the trade an extra day of runway — nearly doubling the pip yield with zero losing years across the full dataset.

Disclaimer: Live results: 2023–2026 · Backtest: 2020–2026. Past performance does not guarantee future results. We are not authorised or regulated by the FCA or any financial regulator.

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