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30k a day or for whole year? With what risk capital? Achieving Sharpe of 1-2, with less than 10% drawdown on my entire portfolio would be good for me. And no more fiddling with algo strategies that are stable and consistent. And enjoy the ride. Also, find ways to reduce costs and slippages.

Can start with same strategy for different markets. Robert Carver's books are good reference. Perry Kaufman book on Alpha Trading Profitable Strategies that Remove Directional risk is a good read to illustrate this concept. For customised strategies specific to markets, you can look at Ernest...

Do you think it could be placing diversified bets on discretionary events using call options?The returns stream look pretty smooth to me. I'm unsure. Out of my league to obtain those returns haha.

Hi @globalarbtrader and everyone else, Could I check if you have tested real effective exchange rate (REER) as a signal for forex instruments before? I'm intending to test the factor and wanted to understand your experience using it as a signal. Thanks!

Find as many strategies as possible with positive expected value and performance characteristics (e.g. positive skew, negative skews) that perform well in difference conditions (price, economic, etc.). Diversify across them to achieve higher risk adjusted returns. With that you can always lever...

For such strategies, it may be hard to achieve such consistent return stream of 10k a day. Are you referring to average over the year? Any delta hedging involved for your strategies? What's the risk capital involved? & performance characteristic like sharpe, sortino, calmar?

Wow 2.5 million a year!

Wow that's a lot of trades. Looks promising!

Thanks! Good to know. I'm also selling USD/SGD to hedge my US exposure. I'm exploring futures as an option to hedge but this will be down the line.

Wow what a stellar record! Keep the updates coming. Just curious, what do you mean as FX hedge? Keen to learn more from you! Are you a US citizen? I'm a Non US citizen and my returns suffered a few % point in my home currency and I've recently taken steps to hedge against USD.

Oh I live in Singapore. Unfamiliar with the rules in America. Then perhaps micro or emini futures are more suited then.

Used dated CFDs - much cheaper in costs. At the same time, you can possibly extract roll/carry returns.

Epic lifestyle :) Wake up and I look at my log file of algo system. Do household chores. Code and further backtesting. And add further performance monitoring feature. Go for a jog. Wait for US mkt to start and check opening actions. I live in Asia timezone. Let the algo run and sleep. Up +$5k...

Trade imbalance data is used widely. I haven't used it in algo models but intend to look into the datasets. I'm skeptical of trading using spot currency because of the overnight costs and stuff. Though I wouldn't rule out currency futures (used widely in CTAs trend following model). That being...

Developed feature in my system to hook up to Pushover and Slack. But eventually turned it off and hook it to gmail instead :)

Those things don't exists here :)

100+% of net worth (core portfolio and trading strategies) including leverage but with volatility target monitored by my algo system.

For leveraged account or anything that matters, marked to market accounting matters more. So yes, you shouldn't distinguish between open or close pnl when evaluating your trading performance. What matters is the equity curve of your net liquidation value.

Websites such as FTMO perpetuate this kind of mirage. They expect you to earn 10% per month (120% a year) with max drawdown of 10%. https://ftmo.com/en/