Note that our scenario is
never static as the bot changes continuously the positions to hedge. Do not make the noob mistake to think in terms of
fixed bets.
Clearly, a naive or noob trader, or not an expert in algorithmic trading may not be able to understand (unless he is bright) that because he reasons in terms of a "fixed bet", and not
algorithmically, as it is
required to create an
edge.
You will never be consistently profitable with fixed bets. No matter what you do. That is by the "design" of the market.
Similarly,
you will never be consistently profitable by chasing
signals using "disjoint trades". No matter what you do. The concept itself of "
trade" is actually
harmful to the quest for an edge, as it needs to be replaced by the more useful notion of continuous order flow.
For instance the last few days we had a significant drop in ES:
However, this does
not result in any significant or catastrophic drawdown, because the platform changes the respective positions on all layers.
For instance, look at this layer:
here we have represented 2 rollovers:
Transfer: ES FOP 20230616 2000 P CME 50 → ES FOP 20231020 2600 P CME 50
Transfer: ES FOP 20231020 2600 P CME 50 → ES FOP 20240328 3000 P CME 50
Note that the bot immediately
stops the "bleeding" (blue circle denoting buys), thus changing the overall scenario. And through rollovers (
information transfers) that buy will be later "recovered", thus removing its bad influence on the average buy price. This is the algorithmic "
stop-recovery mechanism", which contributes a lot to our
edge, in addition to the bilateral scalping activity
This happens obviously on all layers.
At the same time,
more long legs are added by extending the profitable zone to very small (practically impossible) values of the underlying.
In the worst scenario, if we are able to put in additional capital to ride the
market drift we can make an
exceptional extra return on top of the ordinary return.
Warren Buffet style
Note that this trading session is
564 days and we have accumulated
650K profits starting from
2MM. With a maximum of
670K. DD less than
5%. Portfolio margin account. All
LMT orders, buy at ASK, sell at BID (note that blue and red lines represent ask and bid
real-time prices respectively).
While the broker (IB) reports officially this situation:
AccruedCash 6049.66 USD
AccruedDividend 0.00 USD
BuyingPower 10319092.27 USD
FullAvailableFunds 1547863.84 USD
FullExcessLiquidity 1718557.31 USD
FullInitMarginReq 1209105.43 USD
FullMaintMarginReq 1038411.96 USD
NetLiquidation 2756969.27 USD