🛢️ SomaOil — A Diversified Crude Oil Portfolio in One EA

By Andrii Soma

Twenty independent breakout strategies. One chart. Published methodology. Built for traders who want to see how the sausage is made.

SomaOil is a multi-strategy breakout Expert Advisor for WTI crude oil (XTIUSD) on MetaTrader 5. Instead of one setup tuned to a narrow market regime — the kind that looks perfect in backtests and overfits in live — it runs 20 pre-tuned strategies in parallel on a single chart, each with its own timeframe, swing parameters, exits, news windows and lot allocation.

They share one execution engine but trade independently. The result is diversification across timeframes and breakout breadth without managing dozens of charts.

📊 Live Verification

• 🟢 Live Signal v1.0
• 🟢 Live Signal v2.0 — Conservative
• 🎥 Video walkthrough available on the product page

⭐ 5.0 / 5 (2 reviews) · 576 demo downloads
📅 Published 17 July 2026 · Version 3.4 (29 September 2026) · 10 activations
🏷️ SomaGold (sister product, XAUUSD): 4.83★ / 12 reviews

🔬 How the Portfolio Was Built — Published, Not Promised

This is the section that sets SomaOil apart. The developer documents his validation process in full:

Two complementary optimisation windows, each validating the other:

Each window's out-of-sample period sits inside the other's in-sample period. A strategy has to survive data it wasn't tuned on, in both directions.

Parameter grid: 5 timeframe groups (D1, H12, H8, H4, H1) × 3 breakout breadths (Broad / Medium / Narrow) × 2 optimisation targets (Return/Balance DD, then Return/Equity DD).

Filtering, in order:

1. Strategies correlating too strongly with another survivor — removed
2. Strategies failing real-tick validation or their OOS window — removed
3. All optimisation ran with Friday close enabled, so no strategy could score on weekend gaps

Survivors: 20 of the original candidates — 7 from Res1, 13 from Res2. Final mix: 3 D1, 5 H12, 2 H8, 6 H4, 4 H1.

Lot allocation: a portfolio optimiser weighted each strategy by return/equity-DD contribution. Strategies that correlate in drawdown get smaller allocations; strategies that add value get larger ones.

⚖️ Four Risk Tiers — Same Strategies, Different Sizing

The SomaOilPortfolio input selects a preset. All four run the same 20 strategies; only per-strategy lot steps change.

• V2.1 Conservative (default) — lowest equity-drawdown tier
• V2.2 Medium
• V2.3 High Risk
• V1.0 Balance-balanced — older allocation, kept for comparison

🛡️ Risk Controls

• ✅ Stop Loss and Take Profit per strategy, with layered break-even and trailing exits
• ✅ Margin call protection (default on) — reserves margin for pending stops and caps lot size to a margin budget
• ✅ OnlyUp sizing — lots ratchet up with peak capital but never down during drawdown; withdrawals and deposits re-sync the peak
• ✅ Broker-agnostic normalisation — comparable exposure across cent, USD and non-USD accounts
• ✅ Base-currency selector — USD, EUR, GBP, HKD, SGD or custom
• 🚫 No grid. No martingale. No averaging.

📰 News & Session Protection

Built-in US calendar covering NFP, CPI and FOMC rate decisions. Around each event the EA can block entries, cancel pendings, and close positions — with per-strategy before/after windows, not one global setting. The classifier excludes false positives like ADP and FOMC minutes.

Trading window: optional Monday-open / Friday-close to avoid weekend gaps, with choice of killing pendings or open positions outside it.

Spread filter: blocks pending placement when spread exceeds a limit (default 80 points on 3-digit WTI), and cancels pendings if spread stays high for a sustained period. Oil spreads widen at rollover and in thin liquidity — this matters more here than on gold.

🏢 Prop Firm Layer (Optional, Off by Default)

• Max daily drawdown lockout (percent or money)
• No-hedge rule
• Pending-order cap
• Optional entry/exit offset (MaxRandomizationPips) — varies levels slightly between accounts running the same EA

All default to zero. No performance impact when disabled.

📊 On-Chart Dashboard

Licence status, active portfolio, sizing base, contract normalisation, risk multiplier, margin protection status, pending/open positions by side, floating and daily P/L, balance and equity drawdown, trading cost table (slippage, swap, commission across 1d/7d/30d/90d/all), spread, active strategy count, and next NFP/CPI/FOMC events.

📋 Specifications

💬 Buyer Feedback

One reviewer who has followed the developer across products singled out the transparent methodology visible on the page, the multi-broker testing, and the higher-timeframe diversification — while noting plainly that some months won't be positive.

The other review, in full: "Seems well put together. Live trading will tell." — which is the right posture.

The developer replied to both.

🎯 Who This Suits

• ✔️ Traders over-concentrated in gold — oil moves on different drivers (OPEC, inventories, geopolitics) and diversifies a gold-heavy book
• ✔️ Anyone who wants to see the validation method rather than take it on trust
• ✔️ Accounts of $2,000+ that can run the full 20-strategy allocation
• ✔️ Portfolio thinkers who prefer 20 small uncorrelated bets to one big one
• ✔️ Traders who already run SomaGold or SomaBTC — same engine, same philosophy

❌ Not For

• 🚫 Accounts under $2,000 — the portfolio can't scale down below 0.01 per strategy
• 🚫 Anyone expecting an established review base — this product has two
• 🚫 Traders unfamiliar with oil's rollover spread behaviour and session structure
• 🚫 Buyers who need a long live record — the signals date from July 2026

⚠️ Trading Risk Statement

Trading CFDs on crude oil involves significant risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. Oil is subject to sharp moves on inventory data, OPEC decisions and geopolitical events, and spreads widen materially around contract rollover. Past performance — including backtests, cross-validated optimisation results and live signals — does not guarantee future results. Breakout portfolios produce clusters of losses in ranging markets. Test on demo with your own broker before deploying real capital. Only trade with capital you can afford to lose.