The loss in January most closely resembles a loss from march of 2005 as far as size. Overall, the swing trading strategy has had 5 losing months. It's worth noting that I only look at the closed/realized trades when looking at a loss in January. Late January saw a lot of positions opened that ultimately contributed significantly to the 46k gain in Feb.
The day trading strategy was not yet live in January - However the backtesting results for that system shows it would have produced a gain that would have caused January to be profitable overall on a portfolio basis.
Couple years ago i backtested strategy that has similarities to yours,it produced smooth equity curve.It had fixed R/R which forced me to recalibrate and start again instead of doing it on monthly basis.I did not have long term and short term,just one set,my number of trades was also high so this also is similar to your number of strategies.What i liked is the system spend far more time being profitable than in a drawdown and if i started with a loss it bounced back and i value what you wrote about the following month being profitable.
I would not ask to post your trades,imho all profitable trades fall under same umbrella - entry signals try to catch the trend as early as possible with consideration given to volatility band,this can be build without machine learning.
The reason you doing long term and short term which is clever is because what i mentioned in my previous post the range expantion is your weak spot and as a result you don't have trained strategies with 1:3 risk/reward.Each months that ended with a loss was a result of trades time stop 21 days and to make up for that system would require more trades with better R/R which would equal to same R/R but wider stop and larger profit,but we don't know that till after the fact (wider monthly bar) so this is useless so it comes back to trades with better R/R than those trading
If i was bored i would run backtest of previous losing months and add 10 % target to all trades,see if this results in a profitable month and if it does then run full backtest and see if there is improvement.This would improve R/R and overcome trades exited with a loss.
I read you thread just once and may not remember correctly if your day trades just have time stop and profit target.If that's the case there could be days where sharp adverse movement range expantion will continue for longer than few days and this will of course include longer term system, i would give a thought about implementing some kind of stop loss based on equity curve.
Another thing to know for yourself is R/R of profitable trades,because you don't know the logic behind them.I would call this metric "in a field R/R",gather data for executed profitable trades and calculate from their entry what was actual move against in terms of price before it hit the target-difference between drawdown of each individual trade and its profit.
This info would be beneficial to the future training used in deep learning,another criteria,no trades above certain R/R or no trades with same R/R-not to correlate too much.Above certain "in a field R/R " because these was/were trade/s stopped out on 21st day,they did not reach their target.
I am not requesting reply with any results or anything, you may post them if you wish i understand importance of IP.
Somewhere on my old laptop i had a backtest of that system with smooth equity,if i find it i will post it here,i think Win % was similar around 67 actually.