I wanted to know what's really going on. Not just what the percentage says at the end.
A high return looks great. But on its own, it tells you very little about whether someone trades well – or just takes on a lot of risk and hopes for the best.
- Real account
- Publicly verified
- As of 25 September 2026
“For me, you don't spot a good trader by what they make in a good month. It gets interesting on the days when the market doesn't do what it's supposed to.”Principles. Full stop.
Real account. Real history. Anyone can check it.
I'm interested in something other than the biggest number: How does this trader trade? How deep are the dips? What happens after a loss? How often do they trade at all? And do the numbers add up?
So I took a proper look at Sonic. The account trades live at TagMarkets on MetaTrader 5, and its full history is public on MyFXBook.
That might sound like a minor detail. For me, it's the most important point on this page. I don't want a presentation where someone shows me their three best months. I want to be able to check what actually happened.
The account has been tracked there since 3 November 2024. For this analysis, I'm looking at the current trading year, January to September 2026. Figures as of 25 September 2026.
Taken together, these numbers interest me far more than one month with a pretty return. 331 trades are enough to see a pattern. With that much activity, I'd have expected a bigger drawdown.
That's when I start paying attention.
Nobody here is sitting alone in front of six screens waiting for inspiration to strike.
Sonic is traded by a team that also uses AI. And before anyone pictures a machine hitting buy and sell on its own: no.
The AI helps with the analysis. It compares data faster, spots patterns and checks every situation against the same criteria, again and again. The final call is always made by the team.
I like that for a simple reason: people have emotions.
After a loss, you want to win it back. After three good trades, you get bolder. Sometimes you see an opportunity just because you badly want to see one. And sometimes you trade when the sensible thing would be to do nothing at all.
A system doesn't have that problem. It doesn't take the market personally, it doesn't get euphoric and it doesn't get bored.
That's why I find the combination so strong: the technology provides the overview, the people make the call.
What the numbers really show
A. 331 trades. And still only a 0.86% drawdown.
Read those two numbers together. 331 trades from January to September. And 0.86 percent – the biggest drawdown visible since the account launched.
For me, that says more about a trader than any single return figure. Anyone who keeps opening big positions, chases losses or doubles their risk after a bad trade leaves traces in the account. Sooner or later, it shows up in the drawdowns.
That's the first thing I look at.
A small drawdown so far doesn't mean it'll stay that way. Trading is still trading, and the next phase could look different. But if I want to know how this team has handled risk so far, 0.86 percent over this whole history is a number I take seriously.
B. 86 percent winning trades on its own wouldn't convince me.
You can make lots of small gains and hand it all back with one big loss. What interests me is the combination:
- 86% of trades closed in profit
- 331 trades over the period
- 0.86% biggest drawdown visible since launch
- total wins were 3.35 times total losses
Slowly, a picture starts to form. Not a perfect trader – there's no such thing. But one whose way of working I can actually follow.
24× sounds huge. It is.
That's why I'd never look at the leverage on its own. If you amplify a trader who doesn't have their risk under control, you amplify that problem too. What interests me is the performance before leverage.
For Sonic, the average unleveraged performance over the eight completed months from January to August 2026 was around 0.93 percent a month.
The 24 doesn't turn a bad trader into a good one. It just makes bigger whatever was already there.
Percentages are nice. But none of us live in percentages.
Here's the simplest version – and please read it the way it's meant: as a worked example based on the average performance so far. Not as a promise for next month.
That only applies if the underlying performance is actually achieved.
0.93 percent unleveraged sounds pretty unspectacular. With 24× amplification, the same performance looks very different. That's what got me interested in this model in the first place.
Why I still don't knock traditional investments
I've got nothing against shares, ETFs or property – quite the opposite. You just have to be honest that we're talking about different time frames. Many traditional investments are designed to build wealth over years or decades.
Something else is happening here. A relatively small move by the trader gets amplified. That can lead to results on a completely different scale – and it comes with a different kind of risk.
One doesn't have to replace the other. But once I've understood that my money can work very differently in different places, I can hardly pretend there's only one option.
Maybe that's where wealth really starts: when you stop just parking your money somewhere and start understanding what it's doing there.
No magic trick. Trading is still risky.
I can show you the prettiest numbers in the world. There are no guarantees in trading. The past can't predict next month – or next year.
That's why, with any trader, I first look at how they've handled risk so far. Do they trade bigger after losses? Do they hold on to positions long after the market has turned against them? Are they trying to win something back? Are there extreme drawdowns? Or is there a real consistency across lots of trades?
Besides these numbers, here’s what I see with Sonic so far:
- a track record anyone can check on MyFXBook
- a real account at TagMarkets on MetaTrader 5
- a trading team that works with AI support
None of that makes trading safe. It just means you can see how the work is done here.
“This team isn't interesting because it's loud – it's interesting because it sticks to a principle that is incredibly hard to stick to in trading.”
I don't need a trader who wows me every Monday. I want one whose work I still understand months later.
From January to September 2026, here's what I see with Sonic:
- +8.48% actual trading performance
- 331 trades, 86% of them winners
- 0.86% biggest drawdown visible since launch
- wins 3.35 times the size of the losses
- in theory, around 15% net a month at 24× amplification, based on the average of the eight completed months
That's the part I can show you. What happens next month is something nobody can honestly promise you.
What you do with it is up to you. I just wanted you to see the same numbers I do.
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I can show you plenty of numbers. But in the end, what's really interesting is what happens for the people who actually do it.
And the best people to tell you what that looks like in real life are the ones who are already in.