+15,000%, 10 years ago + Trying to Make It Today

[AriaS]

Hi friends! The headline probably made you think “another scam!”, right?
No, not a scam: 1. Here is proof and another proof. 2. I don’t sell anything! 3. This happened in the past and I can’t do it anymore.

In fact, since back then I’ve never been consistently profitable in forex trading for more than half a year. Here is my longest profitable account since the +15,000% back in 2015-16.

This trading journal will be of my two recent strategies, that I hope, only modestly hope, can make me profitable for longer than half a year. The forex strategy is based on all my 11 year knowledge and experience. The stock trading strategy is based on my stock investing strategy that I started in Nov 2023 and made 90% since then.

1. Forex strategy - Myfxbook - Technical, swing, fully automated, 27 pairs.
2. Stock trading strategy - Myfxbook - Backtest - Fundamental, fully automated, large companies.

P.S. Please don’t ask me to share the exact mechanics of my strategies. It’s only a trading journal. I only share the progress and general truths and ideas that made me what I am and can be valuable for beginners. Please read my other posts on the forum for some ideas I believe in.

 

[AriaS]

Thanks to my new backtesting algorithm the forex strategy has grown from 13 to 27 pips/day (from Aug 10th)

 

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Stress Test

Made a successful stress test for the new back testing algorithm. Tested out-of-sample the months of interest rate changes, including both surprise and predicted. The result is good: no entrances during the news. The only problem, which did not occur in the stress tests so far, but might occur is either closure in loss, in the direction of the spike, or if the closing algorithm decides to stay and closes with a bigger loss. This can be a problem only during surprise. Maybe I should consider manually closing the trade, before the rate announcement, if I see that there is no wide consensus of economists.

 

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Updated Myfxbook profile. The link in the main post doesn't work anymore.

 

[AriaS]

I made a mistake that almost destroyed the account Yesterday. It survived though!

I had the equity breakeven turned on, but I didn't take into account that it needed to be turned off when I scaled the account x2, or I should have coded percent breakeven. Yesterday the floating loss was stopped out by the equity breakeven and this caused the strategy to lose 7.39%.. Luckily it is still less than made in 2 previous months combined, so my own rule is not violated.

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The account is currently not on Myfxbook 🙁