Who we are
IDEAL FOREX is a trading software and education business operating at idlfx.com. We build MetaTrader 4 and MetaTrader 5 Expert Advisors, publish the specifications and testing methodology behind them, and provide the calculators and written material that members use to size and assess their own trades.
We are a software vendor and an educator. That distinction is the most important thing on this page, and it is carried through every product description on the site.
What we sell
- Expert Advisor licences. Permission to run a specific compiled version of one of our robots, on a limited number of machines and trading accounts, for a defined period. Licences are validated by our licensing service and are bound to the environment they were issued for.
- Education. Written material, the glossary and explanatory articles covering quoting conventions, risk arithmetic and how to read a test result.
- Subscription services where offered. Access to member areas and to any service described on the relevant plan page, for the period stated before purchase.
What we do not do
Equally important, and deliberately stated in plain terms:
- We do not accept client investment capital. There is no product here that takes money in and trades it for you.
- We do not manage client funds or brokerage accounts. Your trading account is opened with, funded by and controlled through your own broker, under your own agreement with them.
- We do not give discretionary or personal investment advice. Nothing we publish is tailored to your objectives, financial position or risk tolerance, because we do not know them.
- We do not guarantee returns. No licence, signal, course or calculator can make a profit certain, and we will never present one as if it could.
- We are not a broker and we do not intermediate accounts, deposits or withdrawals with one.
Standards we hold ourselves to
Anything presented on this site as a figure comes from a recorded row or it is not shown. Test results are labelled as hypothetical and the assumptions behind them — spread, slippage, leverage and pip convention — are stated, because a number without its assumptions is not information. Where a service has no history yet, we show an empty state rather than a placeholder figure.
We never ask for a broker trading password. The only credential that ever has a legitimate purpose in a third-party relationship is the read-only investor password, and we request that only for a specific verification, never as a login to anything of ours.
Company and contact details
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Written enquiries are handled through the contact form on this site, which reaches the support queue directly.
Risk warning
Trading currencies and contracts for difference on margin is speculative. Losses can be rapid, substantial and greater than funds deposited. The separate risk disclosure sets this out in full, and it applies to everything on this site.