After 9 years of manual FX trading, I used AI to automate my edge. Here is the 13-year backtest (2012–2024). I’ve been in the FX trenches for 9 years. I’ve seen market cycles, blown accounts, hit streaks, and eventually found a manual edge that worked. But I’m also a business owner, and I realised I was spending too much emotional energy staring at candles. I wanted my time and life back. I’m not a professional coder, but I know how the market moves. Over the last few months, I’ve used AI-assisted coding to bridge the gap—taking my manual trend strategy and porting it into a Python/MT5 bot. **The Data (The 13-Year Proof):** I didn't just test this on a few months of data. I ran the logic through everything from 2012 to late 2024.…