Float Mechanics

I started building my trading software in 2020 while working as a software engineer. Two years ago I left my job to do this full-time. It's how I make my living now. I build automated systems around explosive price moves. I'll share the work and the results here.

For those of you trading for a living: would you be happy with 70% a year and 15% max drawdown? Sounds amazing on paper, but taxes, withdrawals, living expenses, and an edge that could stop working make compounding to $1M feel fucking hard. What’s enough for you?

Quiet tape today. Midterm uncertainty probably isn't helping. Still, my system executed the first paper trade for a new pullback strategy: short $PARA, ~30%. Watching something I built actually do its job never gets old.

There was a time when making $500 meant working my ass off. Now my systems make that while I do nothing. Yet I expect $500 every single day. If it doesn’t come, I get sad 😔 Meanwhile, I can lose $3,000 in a day and barely care. Trading does weird things to your brain 😂

I've been working on a batch of new systematic strategies. Here are some of their backtest equity curves. The results look promising, but backtests are one thing. Real-world performance is another. Next step: paper trading. Will they hold up? 👀

My exposure has dropped significantly over the past 2.5 weeks. Far fewer opportunities compared to August and September.