article: Inside Signova - Architecture and Performance of Our Trading Engine

Inside Signova - Architecture and Performance of Our Trading Engine

Discover how Signova delivers consistent returns through transparent, professional-grade automated trading technology.

Meet Signova: Trading Automation That Actually Works

Principles

Signova isn’t about hitting jackpots or taking huge risks. It’s designed for consistent, sustainable growth that compounds over time:

  • Risk-first approach - Designed for minimal drawdowns to protect your capital
  • Steady performance - No wild swings or account-destroying losses
  • Long-term thinking - Built to perform for years, not weeks
  • Professional standards - The same approach used by banks and investment firms
  • Quality engineering - Implemented by professional software engineers
  • Tested with tick data - Only high-quality tick data with true spreads used for backtests
  • H1 timeframe trading - Main strategy execution
  • D1 trend validation - Ensures we trade with the major trend
  • 16 forex pairs - Spreads risk across different markets

Performance Numbers: Signova Light

Signova Light is the beginner-friendly version designed to make professional trading accessible even for smaller accounts. It performs consistently well but comes with carefully calibrated risk and volume limitations to protect your capital. You can expect significantly better profits than traditional investments such as savings accounts, bonds, or index funds, though the full potential of our multi-strategy approach remains unlocked at higher tiers. What makes Signova Light particularly attractive is its low barrier to entry. This trading system can be deployed with as little as €1,000 per trading account, making institutional-grade algorithmic trading accessible to virtually anyone ready to take their first steps into professional forex trading.

Summary over 5 years

  • 📊 4 forex symbols traded
  • 📈 29% average yearly returns
  • 🛡️ 14% maximum relative drawdown
  • 🎯 1.40 profit factor
  • 788 yearly trades
Open Signova Light backtest report

Performance Numbers: Signova Standard

Signova Standard is our recommended solution, perfectly suited for most retail traders. While the minimum account equity remains accessible, it features an intuitive risk selector allowing you to choose from lowest to extreme risk per trade. More risk means higher drawdowns but significantly greater profit potential, all within a controlled framework requiring just $2,500 minimum equity. Signova Standard risks approximately 0.4-0.7% of account equity per trade and intelligently balances currency pairs to minimize correlation. The result: substantial, consistent profits that could potentially replace your traditional income over time.

Summary over 5 years

  • 📊 8 forex symbols traded
  • 📈 121% average yearly returns
  • 🛡️ 13% maximum relative drawdown
  • 🎯 1.29 profit factor
  • 1330 yearly trades
Open Signova Standard backtest report

Why Most Trading Bots Fail (And Why Signova Is Different)

Let’s be honest - the internet is full of “get rich quick” trading bots that promise the moon but deliver disappointment. These scammy “FOREX EAs” and “magic algorithms” are designed to make their sellers rich, not you.

The problem with most trading bots:

  • Black-box algorithms you can’t understand
  • Unrealistic promises (“10,000% returns!”)
  • No transparency or proof
  • Use of fundamentally flawed strategies such as Grid or Martingale
  • They blow up your account within weeks

Signova is different because:

  • Fully transparent
  • Professional approach
  • Realistic returns
  • Risk management
  • Reproducible

How Signova Works: The Power of Diversification

In a typical investment environment, a portfolio manager makes trading decisions based on various parameters and market indicators instead of relying on a single trading algorithm. This fundamental difference between algorithmic trading and manual trading often results in human traders outperforming algorithmic approaches simply through flexibility and adaptability.

However, human traders face significant limitations that can undermine even the best strategies. Emotions such as fear, greed, and overconfidence frequently cause traders to abandon their disciplined approach at precisely the wrong moment. After a series of losses, fear may prevent them from taking the next valid signal. Following a winning streak, overconfidence might lead to excessive risk-taking. Additionally, mental fatigue from continuous market monitoring degrades decision quality over time. A trader who performs excellently during the first hours of a session may make poor choices later due to exhaustion, leading to inconsistent results that erode profitability.

The optimum solution combines the best of both worlds: the tireless consistency and speed of 24/7 automation with the adaptive, context-aware decision-making that characterizes experienced human traders. This hybrid approach eliminates emotional bias and fatigue while retaining the strategic flexibility that allows for nuanced responses to varying market conditions.

That’s exactly how Signova works. Instead of relying on a single risky strategy, Signova combines 160+ independent trading modules across 16+ different currency pairs. Each module has its own unique performance curve. Some may be flat, some positive, and some negative. What matters is that when all curves are combined, the overall equity curve remains positive. To achieve this, the system ensures that more modules exhibit positive performance curves than negative ones.

The strength of this approach lies in the large number of small, independent trading strategies. Since no single perfect algorithm exists, Signova uses many smaller, statistically sound trading approaches instead. This effectively eliminates the typical problem of overfitting. For example, consider the diagram below, which visualizes this concept. It shows three average-performing trading strategies that, when combined, produce a robust equity curve. Each individual strategy trades infrequently, just enough to prove its statistical validity. In practice, this means only extreme market conditions trigger signals, and these conditions typically come with a higher statistical probability of change in directional price movement.

Individual strategy module performance and sum of all

In total, approximately 160+ trading modules evaluate market conditions and execute trades in parallel. Similar to a modern automated trading desk at an institutional bank, each module is thoroughly tested, continuously monitored, and regularly evaluated. If a module stops performing well, it is immediately replaced by the next one in the queue. Because it is highly unlikely that all modules underperform simultaneously, the overall system remains profitable. The key to maintaining consistent profitability is ensuring that the system’s statistical expectation value stays above 1.0. While this may sound complex, it essentially comes down to disciplined use of stop-loss and take-profit mechanisms.

Trading modules are not designed to generate as many signals as possible and then filter out failures or deal with the resulting losses. Instead, every module focuses on a very specific set of market conditions and executes precise trading actions using a trade-splitting approach.

Some modules may trigger signals at similar moments, but never in exactly the same way. For example, during one swing reversal, 3 out of 5 modules might activate. During another, only 1 out of 5. And during a different reversal, perhaps 4 out of 5. This naturally creates logical diversification across the system.

This “white-noise-like” distribution of signals acts as a statistical counterbalance to the inherently chaotic nature of volatile price movements. As a result, the system does not rely on complex mathematical models to outperform the market. Its edge comes from pure, robust statistics.

This diversification is exactly how banks and hedge funds approach automated trading - and now you can use the same professional approach. Read more about that here

Built with Professional Technology

During our 8-year development journey of Signova, we built advanced internal tools that we eventually decided to make publicly available. One of these tools is our our Expert Advisor Builder, which completely abstracts traditional trading concepts into its own software layer. While this may sound complicated, you can think of it as a runtime environment for trading strategies. The runtime itself is written in MQL4/MQL5, but the configuration uses a proprietary format that simplifies strategy development.

Expert Advisor Builder web application

In the end this means you can actually download Signova’s complete trading logic and inspect it yourself using our Expert Advisor Builder web application. No secrets, no black boxes - just professional trading logic you can understand.

To validate every single module, simply do the follwing:

  1. Download the trading logic for each Signova variant as ZIP file: Signova Light, Signova Standard, Signova Premium

  2. Open our free Expert Advisor Builder web application - This is the tool we use to create Signova’s unique logic.

  3. Import the ZIP into the Expert Advisor Builder - Now you can inspect every trading module used for Signova in detail. You’ll see there are no hidden algorithms or secret sauce. Just pure professional automated trading.

This level of openness is unprecedented in the trading industry, and there’s a good reason most vendors won’t tell you their strategy. We can, because our system actually works and remains protected against unauthorized copying.

Ready to See It in Action?

Every trade entry and exit is published in real-time on our Signova Telegram channel. You can use this to manually copy trades or verify the system’s performance. However, reproducing the full performance requires copying every single trade exactly. Given the high frequency of signals, manual copying quickly becomes impractical. For this reason, we recommend the automated version to ensure you capture every trading opportunity with flawless 24/7 execution.

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Finally, a trading system you can trust and understand. Because your financial future deserves better than black-box gambling.